{"id":10544,"date":"2015-05-04T14:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:28:25","slug":"army-needs-better-guns-on-its-stryker-fighting-vehicles-in-europe-fast-from-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/army-needs-better-guns-on-its-stryker-fighting-vehicles-in-europe-fast-from-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Needs Better Guns On Its Stryker Fighting Vehicles In Europe Fast (From Forbes)"},"content":{"rendered":"
In 2013 the U.S. Army brought home the last of its Abrams and Bradley tracked armored vehicles from Europe.\u00a0 It probably wasn’t a total coincidence that less than a year later, Russia began its campaign to dismember Ukraine.\u00a0 So now the Army finds its\u00a0last front-line combat unit near Eastern Europe, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, in need of more firepower fast.\u00a0 The regiment’s Stryker fighting vehicles are well-protected, agile and networked, but they need a bigger gun to defeat the kind of threats they might be facing from the east.\u00a0 The Army’s solution is to equip 81 Strykers with a lethal 30 mm. cannon that can sustain high rates of fire using air-burst\u00a0and armor-piercing rounds.\u00a0 But U.S. troops can’t wait for this \u00a0initiative to wend its way down the usual path that weapons\u00a0acquisitions follow.\u00a0 Congress needs to add about $300 million to the Army’s budget this year to put the up-gunned Strykers on a fast track.\u00a0 If they get to Europe fast enough,\u00a0that might help deter Russia from further military adventures in the east.\u00a0 I have written a commentary for Forbes here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2013 the U.S. Army brought home the last of its Abrams and Bradley tracked armored vehicles from Europe.\u00a0 It probably wasn’t a total coincidence that less than a year later, Russia began its campaign to dismember Ukraine.\u00a0 So now the Army finds its\u00a0last front-line combat unit near Eastern Europe, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n