With the new Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) roll-out and Gate’s mention of the EFV program, I figured it would be a good time to review…
My 2008 Proceedings treatise on the EFV.
Quit gaming the stats. Use a fully-loaded EFV for testing.
The EFV under-armor evokes Congressional eloquence.
The JHSV was
to
carry 8 EFVs! Who knew?
As armored amphibians evolve…they like the sea less.
Mulling the anti-ship EFV!
Tanks can fight (and win) at sea!
Tanks can fight (and lose) at sea!
A few places where EFVs might shine.
I like the EFV. And I’m not getting paid to say that, either.
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Also, for $22 Million — the price of *one* EFV — you can buy…
– 1 F-16C Fighting Falcon
– 1 AH-64D Longbow Apache
– 2 M1A2 Abrams SEP Main Battle Tanks
– 75 M113A3 Gavins
– 2 BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles
– 2 M2A3 Bradley IFVs
– 60 ARISGATORs
– 1125 TOW Anti-Tank Missiles
– 10 Predator UAVs
– 2 A-10C Thunderbolt IIs
– 22 M60A3 Patton Main Battle Tanks
– 346 Humvees
– 15 Patriot Missiles
– 281 Javelin Anti-Tank Missiles
– 38000 M16 Rifles
– 2 UH-60L Blackhawk Utility Helicopters
– 4 M198 Howitzers
– 9 M270 MLRS Artillery Rocket Launchers
For the cost of 10 EFVs ($220 Million), you can buy…
– 1 Perry class Frigate
– 1 F-22A Raptor
– 1 KC-10 Extender
– 3 F-15E Strike Eagles
– 2 C-130J Super Hercules
– 3 F/A-18E Super Hornets
– 8 CH-53K Sea Dragons
– 3 Peacekeeper ICBMs
For the cost of 100 EFVs ($2.2 Billion), you can buy…
– 4 Arleigh Burke class Destroyers
– 1 Seawolf class Attack Submarine
– 2 B-2A Spirit Stealth Bombers
– 3 Ohio class Missile Submarines
For the cost of 350 EFVs ($7.5 Billion), you could buy…
– 1 Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier
– 2 Zumwalt class Destroyers
– A completely new EFV program
@USNVO,
“Before we say if they work or not, lets test the production ready prototypes.”
*Which* prototypes? The ones being built now? The hold-overs from the early 2000s? The even earlier EFVs of the late 1990s? The AAAVs of the early 1990s? Or perhaps “the proof-of-concept” vehicles unveiled in 1984?
Before we say if they work or not, lets test the production ready prototypes.
Slight technicality. It doesn’t work. And it will cost millions upon millions (billions?) to get it to work. In light of competing budgetary demands — both domestic and foreign –IS IT WORTH IT????
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