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Land Combat Vehicles: Protection Must Come First

By November 28, 2019
A US M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, US Army photo by Winifred Brown

Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #167

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For decades, western armies have been working on developing a land-combat vehicle that would address the changing nature of warfare — notably fighting in densely populated urban and rural terrains — and new operational threats like mines, side bombs, and short-range rockets for purposes of ambush. But attempts to circumvent the use of expensive heavy armor by harnessing advanced sensory-fire and mobility technologies to neutralize potential threats before their actualization has been far from successful, leaving ground forces vulnerable and exposed. Development of a new land-combat vehicle will thus necessitate a highly inventive engineering and technological approach that slashes costs and weight of protective armor without compromising its effectiveness.

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