| 来源类型 | Report |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| Beating the Air into Submission: Investing in Vertical Lift Modernization | |
| Gabriel Coll; Andrew Philip Hunter | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-02-04 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 概述 | The U.S. military’s fleet of helicopters and tiltrotors is aging. While there are ambitious plans to modernize the fleet$much of the investment path ahead remains unclear. This brief looks at past vertical lift investments to help inform future investment plans. |
| 摘要 | The Issue The U.S. military’s vertical lift fleet of helicopters and tiltrotors is aging. With the exception of V-22 Osprey, no completely new aircraft designs have been introduced since the 1980s. Even the V-22 made its first test flight back in the 1980s. And the U.S. Army, which has the largest helicopter fleet and traditionally takes the lead on vertical lift innovation, has not made substantial investments in Research & Development since the cancellation of RAH-66 Comanche. Today, there are ambitious plans to modernize the entire vertical lift fleet. However, much of the investment path ahead remains unclear. To make informed plans about the future, it is important first to understand how the United States arrived at its current state through past investments. Introduction Vertical Lift Spending(2009 — 2018)5 TOPLINE TRENDS Chart 1: DoD vertical lift spending by service IMPLICATIONS OF SERVICE INVESTMENT APPROACHES TRENDS IN VERTICAL LIFT PROCUREMENT Chart 2: Top Procurement Spending Categories, 2009 — 2018 (over $1B)11 TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT KEY TAKEAWAYS Chart 3: Top Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Spending Categories, 2009 — 2018 (over $1B)12 Challenges of Modernization DEFENSE-WIDE 10 ARMY Gabriel Coll is a program manager and research associate with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Andrew Hunter is a senior fellow in the International Security Program and director of DIIG at CSIS. Robert Karlen was an intern with DIIG at CSIS. This brief is made possible by the generous support from Bell. CSIS Briefs are produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan and nonproprietary. CSIS does not take specific policy positions. Accordingly, all views, positions, and conclusions expressed in this publication should be understood to be solely those of the author(s). © 2019 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. All rights reserved. 1“Chapter Three: North America,” The Military Balance 118, Issue 1 (Feb- ruary 2018): 27-64, DOI: 10.1080/04597222.2018.1416979; tiltrotors + helicopters = 5168; manned combat aircraft = 5594 2David Sim and Eve Watling, “These are the World’s Largest Air Forces”, June 15, 2018, Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/these-are-worlds- largest-air-forces-979134?page=9: United States total helicopter strength: 5,758; Russia total aircraft strength: 3,914. 3“Chapter Three: North America”; U.S. Army total helicopter strength: 3,920. 4CSIS analysis; Department of Defense Budget Estimates, Justification Books, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) / CFO, https://comptroller.defense.gov/Budget-Materials/, President’s Budget Requests FY2011 - FY2019. 5CSIS analysis; Department of Defense Budget Estimates. 6Ibid.; these numbers for Procurement and RDT&E are based on the aver- age annual rate of change. 7Rhys McCormick, Samantha Cohen, and Greg Sanders, “Acquisition Trends 2018: Defense Contract Spending Bounces Back,” CSIS, September 13, 2018, https://www.csis.org/analysis/acquisition-trends-2018-de- fense-contract-spending-bounces-back-executive-summary. 8Dan Parsons, “Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age,” National Defense Magazine, February 1, 2012, http://www.nationaldefensemagazine. org/articles/2012/1/31/2012february-military-helicopter-fleets-show-ing-their-age. 9CSIS analysis; Department of Defense Budget Estimates. 10Parsons, “Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age.” 11Procurement and RDT&E categories include: Osprey, Black Hawk, Apache, Sea Hawk, Chinook, Cobra/Viper, Sea Stallion/King Stallion, Avia- tion - General, Marine One (Superhawk), Light Utility Helicopter, Combat Rescue Helicopter, Huey/Iroquois, Kiowa (Warrior), Engines, Huey/Iroquois Replacement, Pave Hawk, Sea Knight, Common Vertical Lift Support Plat- form (CVLSP), (U)MH-XX. 12Procurement and RDT&E categories include: Osprey, Black Hawk, Apache, Sea Hawk, Chinook, Cobra/Viper, Sea Stallion/King Stallion, Avia- tion - General, Marine One (Superhawk), Light Utility Helicopter, Combat Rescue Helicopter, Huey/Iroquois, Kiowa (Warrior), Engines, Huey/Iroquois Replacement, Pave Hawk, Sea Knight, Common Vertical Lift Support Plat- form (CVLSP), (U)MH-XX. |
| URL | https://www.csis.org/analysis/beating-air-submission-investing-vertical-lift-modernization |
| 来源智库 | Center for Strategic and International Studies (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/328030 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gabriel Coll,Andrew Philip Hunter. Beating the Air into Submission: Investing in Vertical Lift Modernization. 2019. |
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