{"id":9626,"date":"2014-10-07T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2014-10-07T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:12:00","slug":"the-u-s-armys-next-fighting-vehicle-may-already-be-available-in-britain-from-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/the-u-s-armys-next-fighting-vehicle-may-already-be-available-in-britain-from-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Army&#8217;s Next Fighting Vehicle May Already Be Available &#8212; In Britain (From Forbes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 3, the British Ministry of Defense announced its biggest\u00a0order for armored vehicles in three decades.\u00a0 It will buy nearly 600 Scout SV tracked\u00a0combat vehicles in six variants from General Dynamics, the big U.S. builder of tanks, warships, business jets and tactical communications systems.\u00a0 The vehicles offer best-in-breed survivability, lethality, mobility and reliability in an affordable design with a modest logistical footprint.\u00a0 And they may offer something else &#8212; a transatlantic solution to the U.S. Army&#8217;s seemingly endless search\u00a0for a post-Cold War fighting vehicle.\u00a0 That search has repeatedly tripped over the requirement to stuff a full rifle squad of nine soldiers on one well-protected but easily-deployed vehicle.\u00a0 If the Army would simply split up the squad into its two fire teams and put them on companion vehicles, it could move ahead quickly on modernizing its gear with the Scout SV.\u00a0 In the age of digital connectivity, it shouldn&#8217;t be all that hard to coordinate the dismounted maneuvers of two fire teams operating in close proximity &#8212; especially using vehicles as capable as Scout SV.\u00a0 I have written a commentary for Forbes <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lorenthompson\/2014\/10\/07\/the-u-s-armys-next-fighting-vehicle-may-already-be-available-in-britain\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 3, the British Ministry of Defense announced its biggest\u00a0order for armored vehicles in three decades.\u00a0 It will buy nearly 600 Scout SV tracked\u00a0combat vehicles in six variants from General Dynamics, the big U.S. builder of tanks, warships, business jets and tactical communications systems.\u00a0 The vehicles offer best-in-breed survivability, lethality, mobility and reliability in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The U.S. Army&#039;s Next Fighting Vehicle May Already Be Available - In Britain (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/the-u-s-armys-next-fighting-vehicle-may-already-be-available-in-britain-from-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The U.S. Army&#039;s Next Fighting Vehicle May Already Be Available - In Britain (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On September 3, the British Ministry of Defense announced its biggest\u00a0order for armored vehicles in three decades.\u00a0 It will buy nearly 600 Scout SV tracked\u00a0combat vehicles in six variants from General Dynamics, the big U.S. builder of tanks, warships, business jets and tactical communications systems.\u00a0 The vehicles offer best-in-breed survivability, lethality, mobility and reliability in [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/the-u-s-armys-next-fighting-vehicle-may-already-be-available-in-britain-from-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-07T19:12:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lex_share.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Loren B. 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