Another presenter here at the armor conference was a woman who runs a business consulting company called Vector Strategy Inc. She gave a lightening fast briefing on trends in the armor business, including vehicle armor orders, body armor procurement, vehicle upgrades, new vehicle orders, etc. through like 2015.
It was a fascinating presentation if not delivered at too blistering a pace to really keep up with it, but here are some numbers she came up with:
- The DoD will spend $5.8 billion on armor of all types in 2008
- Fiscal 2007 armor spending was $3.8 billion
- Fiscal 2009 spending is estimated to be around $4.5 billion
- The supplemental accounts for 86% of this year’s spending
- Fiscal 2010 will be a “transition year” with as little as $3 billion spent on armoring or as much as $7 billion depending on how the Army decided to configure its new Brigade Combat Teams (infantry or mechanized)
- Fiscal 2011–2013 could see between $2.4 and $2.7 billion spent on armor
- About 1/3 of armor procurement will come from the Pentagon’s base budget
- In 2008 15% of the armor funds goes to medium and heavy armored vehicles such as LMTVs and Abrams tanks; 27% goes to MRAPs and 25% goes to combat vehicles such as Strykers and M113 APCs
- In 2008 there will be 43,744 new armored vehicle purchases (including uparmored Humvees) and 12,098 vehicles recapitalized
- Next year will see 29,029 new vehicles with 1,920 recaps
Up next: Key issues facing the future of armor procurement…
– Christian
I’ve been thinking about this a lot.How come we haven’t committed any of our armor or Stryker vehicles to Afghanistan? Canada has committed both Leopard I & Leopard II tanks along with their version of Stryker Vehicles(Piranha GEN III LAV).They even committed Bv206 light armored vehicles.Other European nations have committed armored vehicles(the Germans have their Wiesels in country),but we only have committed armored…up-armored HMMWVs.Is that enough?
I thought that the British where really have issues finding anything to do with their tanks in the ‘stan. I understand the want for armor in the field, but I am not sure tanks are going to help you out there where hearts and minds really are more important than bullets. I know there is still a fight there, but the mountains are not really made for 80 ton monsters of war.
As to Samolia, we had tanks, LAVs and AAVs in country at the time of black hawk down, but they where with the Marines not with task force ranger.
Also,concerning armor in Afghanistan,the U.S. Army has Bv206 assets in Alaska that I’m sure could be transferred to Afghanistan for use.Stryker vehicles would also be an asset in Afghanistan.I’m not exactly sure why(or I forgot)the rationale for the Canadians having tanks in Afghanistan,but tank guns could be used like a big “shotgun” to fire “pellets or other projectiles” into massed Taliban formations if they attacked our forces.The Stryker MGS could also do the same thing.
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