Russian and Chinese threats drive US Army OPFOR vehicle programme
Although it is upgrading many of its OPFOR Surrogate Vehicles, the US Army has started the ball rolling on replacing the current M113-based fleet with prototypes expected over the next two years.
According to COL Charles Lombardo, the Deputy Commander of the Combined Arms Center – Training (CTC-T) at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, the US Army has ‘been band-aiding an atrophied OPFOR’ vehicle fleet in recent years but a replacement now appears to be on the way.
Lombardo was referring to the US Army’s Opposing Force Surrogate Vehicles (OSV) that are operated primarily at the US Army’s National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin in California by the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment.
‘We need to reflect the types of threats we will face from Russian and Chinese vehicles,’ he noted. Prototypes are
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