AUSA 2015: Stryker lethality at risk
US budgetary problems could put the US Stryker 8x8 lethality upgrade programme at risk.
Speaking at the AUSA exhibition, Brig Gen Dave Bassett, PEO Ground Combat Systems, said that it was the ‘biggest challenge’ and that the programme was ‘entirely counting on approval of the FY16 budget’.
He added that the Stryker lethality was an ‘urgent requirement’ even though only one brigade (a small number of vehicles) would receive it, but it would run into future Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) upgrade programmes.
An RFP for a remote turret system fitted with a 30mm gun was released in early October with
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