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来源IDRR-716-A
Comparing U.S. Army Systems with Foreign Counterparts: Identifying Possible Capability Gaps and Insights from Other Armies
John Gordon IV; John Matsumura; Anthony Atler; Scott Boston; Matthew E. Boyer; Natasha Lander; Todd Nichols
发表日期2015-05-13
出版年2015
语种英语
结论

The U.S. Army's Armored Fighting Vehicles Compare Well with Their Foreign Counterparts.

  • The U.S. Army should improve its existing forward-looking infrared systems or pursue other sensor technologies in order to maintain the advantage the Army's tanks and Bradleys have experienced in past direct-fire engagements.
  • The Army is an outlier among armies fielding main battle tanks given its lack of a dedicated high-explosive fragmentation round.

The U.S. Army Leads in Term of the Size and Capability of Its Helicopter Fleet, but Attack and Medium-Lift Helicopters Around the World Have Increased in Sophistication.

  • The U.S. attack helicopter platforms have exhibited dominant target system capability, but foreign attack and medium-lift helicopter platforms do have some niche advantages.
  • The Army's heavy-lift helicopter, the CH-47F, has greater digital connectivity than its foreign counterparts, but it has a lower payload than the equivalent foreign systems.

U.S. Rocket Systems Are Falling Behind the Increasing Range of Similar Russian and Chinese Systems.

  • The trend of foreign, heavy multiple rocket launchers firing well over 100 kilometers has implications for the U.S. Army's fires system, including counterfire and target acquisition.
  • A large portion of the Army's current stock of rocket munitions will have to be replaced when the 2019 limitations on submunitions take effect.

Armies Have Added Considerable Capabilities to Their Infantry Squads, but the Weight That Infantrymen Carry Is Concerning.

  • Loads of 100 pounds or more are now entirely common for dismounted infantrymen.
  • Several armies indicated that they are initiating programs to reduce the loads carried by infantrymen.
摘要

Comparing U.S. Army Systems with Foreign Counterparts: Identifying Possible Capability Gaps and Insights from Other Armies provides the U.S. Army's Force Development and others an opportunity to contrast selected U.S. Army systems and capabilities with comparable foreign weapons. The sponsor of the research, G-8, Headquarters, Department of the Army, was interested in gaining insights into how various U.S. Army systems compared with similar foreign counterparts in order to identify possible capability gaps, as well as good ideas that other armies might have that the U.S. Army could consider adopting. Based on the time and resources that were available, the research focused on armored fighting vehicles, helicopters, rocket and cannon artillery, and various logistics platforms. The armies that were selected for the comparisons included U.S. allies as well as potential future opponents.

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The organizing principle for the research was the Army's warfighting functions. These functions include movement and maneuver (air and ground), intelligence, fires (indirect), sustainment, mission command, and protection. The comparison of the Army's systems with their foreign counterparts was performed within this framework. The primary data used to develop comparisons were the on-the-record attributes of a system, such as the range of weapons and the munitions they fire, weight and protection levels of vehicles, carrying capacity of vehicles either in terms of numbers of personnel or cargo, and range and payload characteristics of helicopters. In addition to performing direct system-to-system comparisons, the research was able to identify crosscutting insights and issues that spanned several of the warfighting functions.

目录
  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    Ground Movement and Maneuver

  • Chapter Three

    Indirect Fires

  • Chapter Four

    Helicopters

  • Chapter Five

    Logistics and Engineering

  • Chapter Six

    Protection

  • Chapter Seven

    Infantry Squads

  • Chapter Eight

    Robotics

  • Chapter Nine

    Conclusions and Recommendations

主题Armored Vehicles ; Military Technology ; Missile Defense ; United States Army ; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ; Warfare and Military Operations
URLhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR716.html
来源智库RAND Corporation (United States)
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/522753
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John Gordon IV,John Matsumura,Anthony Atler,et al. Comparing U.S. Army Systems with Foreign Counterparts: Identifying Possible Capability Gaps and Insights from Other Armies. 2015.
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