The US Army, like the US Navy and the US Air Force, has lined up many failures in recent years in terms of industrial piloting of new equipment. The latest is the replacement of the M2 / M3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, entered service in the 80s, canceled for lack of combatants two months ago, after Rheinmetall was ousted following a logistical problem to present his Lynx, and General Dynamics' Griffin soon after for not performing well. As this is the third time in 11 years that the Bradleys' replacement program has failed, the US Army, through the voice of General John Murray, has decided to radically change its method to restart the program.
No more excessive ambitions, and arbitrary and sometimes contradictory requirements, such as those which accompanied the OMFV program previously, and which threw in the towel for the vast majority of industrialists. This time, the US Army wants to join hands with the manufacturers themselves to offer the best equipment at the best price and as quickly as possible, without any of these three parameters being precisely defined. It is now up to them to propose their own approach to what should be an infantry fighting vehicle of the future, with the sole constraint of having to be able to respect their own schedules, models and budgets.
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