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M113A4 Gavins: MOUT
The document proposes using modified M113A4 armored vehicles to vertically transport infantry squads over rubble and debris in urban areas. It notes the vehicles provide combat-proven mobility with applique armor protection and a boom arm to deliver troops to unexpected locations on buildings. The document advocates for this approach to overcome predictable top-down or bottom-up urban assault tactics that expose infantry to enemy fire. It suggests using smoke and situational awareness to mask vertical assaults from the enemy.
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M113A4 Gavins: MOUT
- 1. MOUT VERTICAL ASSAULT VEHICLE Stealthy Hybrid- Electric M113A4 Boom arm delivers used to transport infantry to rifle squad over unexpected spot on rubble, debris buildings Combat-proven mobility with RPG resistant applique armor
- 2. Can we continueto assault urban structures using predictable top-down or bottom-up tactics? Helicopter rooftop assaults exposes them to enemy fires Slow Ladder assaults date back to ancient “Stacking” teams at Infantry exposed to times! ground-level enemy fires!!!!!
- 3. We must see,the enemy must not... Infantry situationally aware, ready-to- MOUT Vertical Assault fight vehicle and helicopters vertically must lay smokescreens to mask vertical assaults Leaders with digital displays to see “big picture”, navigate
- 4. Leader Situational awareness,head-out from MOUT vertical assault vehicle...
- 6. U.S. ARMY EUROPEANCOMMAND “TRANSFORMS” ITSELF TO C-130 AIR- DEPLOYABILITY IMMEDIATELY WITH EXISTING M113A3 GAVIN TRACKED AFVs, January 2000 "The Army is a learning, thinking, adaptable organization," General John M. Keane U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff www.hqusareur.army.mil/htmlinks/ www.geocities.com/equipmentshop/m113a3setaf.htm
- 7. M113A3/4s can beheli-transported by CH-47Ds 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division Maximizing tracked vehicle weight/volume efficiency, Army CH-47D/F Chinook helicopters can air-transport M113A3/4s over mines, obstacles, avoiding road ambushes as the British Army did with its Scimitar light tanks to be the first NATO force into Kosovo in 1999. Can be flown to cities to cut them off... British Army Air-Mech into Kosovo FACILITATES 3D TACTICAL BATTLE MANEUVERS!
- 8. M113A3/4 Tracked Mobilityto advance in the face of enemy fire, maneuver in rubbled urban areas... Tracks overcome fire and obstacles... LAV-III’s Rubber-tired Wheels vulnerable! “Run-flats” at 5mph for 5 miles no life insurance in combat
- 9. TRACKED VEHICLES AREFAR MORE 2D CROSS-COUNTRY Tracks pull MOBILE THAN WHEELED wheels out ARMORED CARS TO AVOID from the ROAD-SIDE AMBUSHES, MINES, mud…save OBSTACLES! them from road ambush... Tracks swim, fight, move by land, sea or air!
- 10. The 21st Century Environment • Urbanization • Increased Access to • Ethnic & Religious Technology Conflict • Increased U.S. Reliance on • Asymmetric Conflict Force Projection • Simultaneous SASO • Reduced Warning Time Operations • Joint, Combined, Multi- • Weapons Agency Operations Proliferation/WMD • Force Protection an Imperative U.S. Army Forces Must Be… U.S. Army Forces Must Be… Responsive --Deployable --Mobile --Versatile --Combat Responsive Deployable Mobile Versatile Combat Effective Effective
- 11. Missions of theUrban Combat Team • Rapidly Air Deploy Under a Division or Corps HQ as Part of a Joint Force as the spearhead for MOUT operations • Prevent, Contain or Stabilize Crises Through Presence and precise Military Operations in Urban Terrain • Determine Favorable Outcome of urban Small Scale Contingencies (SSCs) • Act as the urban Combat Force Guarantor in Security and Support Operations (SASO) as Part of a U.S. or Multinational Force • Participate, with Augmentation, in Major Theater Wars (MTWs) insuring urban areas do not hinder decisive maneuver
- 12. THE U.S. ARMYALREADY HAS THOUSANDS OF 11-TON M113A3-type TRACKED AFVs IN SERVICE/STORAGE TO BE VERTICAL ASSAULT VEHICLES TO FORM MOUT COMBAT TEAMS! THAT ARE: C-130 AIR-TRANSPORTABLE COMBAT-PROVEN UNDER ALL CONDITIONS! *Vietnam *Panama *Entebbe *East Timor *U.S. Army Europe IRF
- 13. U.S. ARMY 11-TONM113A3 /4 TRACKED AFVs ARE ALREADY TESTED/CERTIFIED: 82d Airborne C-130 PARACHUTE AIR- Division DROPPABLE to get to urban fights... FACILITATES 3D BATTLEFIELD MANEUVERS!