New Platform Adds Speed, Lethality to Infantry Units
mobile protected firepower
Tue, 01/04/2022 - 06:50
The authors of a new paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army argue that investing in the Mobile Protected Firepower platform will keep soldiers in the fight while returning “shock effect” to infantry brigade combat teams.
In “Mobile Protected Firepower: An Opportunity,” Lt. Col. Ben Ferguson and Capt. Lennard Salcedo suggest that as the Army transitions from counterinsurgency to large-scale combat operations, the time is right “to invest in a capability that will help accomplish the mission, implement a better combined arms team into the [infantry brigade combat teams] and mitigate casualties through fire, maneuver and shock effect in the next armed conflict.”
Development of the Mobile Protected Firepower platform, a concept that was originally referred to as a light tank, will bridge gaps in capabilities that near-peer adversaries could exploit, the authors write.
https://www.ausa.org/news/new-platform-adds-speed-lethality-infantry-units
