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...До "Бури в пустыне" танковый парк был представлен М-60...
... а до войны во Вьетнаме
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=17563&rsbci=0&fti=112&ti=0&sc=400&jsi=falseU.S. MARINE CORPS SELECTS LOCKHEED MARTIN TO BUILD LIGHTWEIGHT PRIME MOVER TRUCK FOR NEW HOWITZER
OWEGO, NY, April 6, 2006 -- The United States Marine Corps has awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE] a contract to manufacture Lightweight Prime Mover (LWPM) trucks to tow the new M777 155-mm lightweight artillery howitzer.
The $2.1 million Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) contract is for four vehicles. Under the contract, the Marine Corps has the option for full-rate production of 120 LWPM vehicles, which represents a potential value of approximately $30 million.
“Lockheed Martin will provide the Marines with a safe, proven and survivable truck that will support the Corps’ high mobility needs and meet their demanding expeditionary requirements,” said Louis J. DeSantis, vice president and general manager, Integrated Products at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration – Owego. “Our LWPM assembly line will start work immediately so we can deliver these stronger, safer trucks as quickly as possible.”
Lockheed Martin’s LM4x4 truck will serve as the LWPM. Built on the proven High Mobility Transport (HMT) design, the LM4x4 provides a superior weight-to-payload ratio, enabling the approximately 9,000-pound vehicle to easily tow the 10,000-pound M777 howitzer. The LM4x4’s all-terrain capability allows it to keep pace with armored vehicles and it is air-transportable inside the C-130 Hercules tactical transport aircraft. The vehicle also can be externally carried by CH-53 and CH-47 helicopters, and the V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft.
The LM4x4 has been engineered to accept appliqué armor, significantly improving troop safety and survivability. The vehicle also features rollover protection and fording capabilities, and a central tire inflation system that automatically adjusts air pressure to terrain and payload needs.
The Marine Corps contract is Lockheed Martin’s third significant achievement in the military truck market this year. The company announced in late January that it had acquired HMT Vehicles Limited, a United Kingdom-based developer of designs for military vehicles and the designers of the platform the LM4x4 is based on. Lockheed Martin plans on incorporating HMT’s designs into its U.S. programs such as the LWPM and the Army’s Future Tactical Truck System (FTTS).
Lockheed Martin also announced in early February that it had been selected to build an LM4x4 technology demonstration utility vehicle for the second phase of the U.S. Army’s FTTS Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration. The company will deliver the vehicle to the Army this fall and the truck will then undergo a Platform Systems Demonstration and a Military User Assessment. The results of these evaluations will be used to refine the requirements for the next generation of tactical wheeled vehicles.
Хамилыч же совершенно справедливо имел ввиду что морская пехота традиционно отстает от армии на поколение во многих видах.... а до войны во Вьетнаме
Out of 276 F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters in the Marine Corps inventory, only about 30% are ready to fly, according to statistics provided by the Corps. Similarly, only 42 of 147 heavy-lift CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters are airworthy.
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Lack of funds has forced the Marines to go outside the normal supply chain to procure desperately needed parts. Cannibalization, or taking parts from one multi-million dollar aircraft to get other multi-million dollar aicraft airborne, has become the norm.
To get one Hornet flying again, Marines at Beaufort stripped a landing gear door off a mothballed museum jet. The door, found on the flight deck of the World War II-era USS Yorktown, was last manufactured over a decade ago.
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Sometimes it takes the Marines 18 months to get parts for early model F-18 jets whose production was halted in 2001.
“We are an operational squadron. We are supposed to be flying jets, not building them,” said Lt. Col. Harry Thomas, Commanding Officer of VMFA-312, a Marine Corps F/A-18 squadron based at Beaufort.
Lt. Col Thomas, call sign “Crash,” deployed to the Pacific with 10 jets last year. Only seven made it. A fuel leak caused his F/A-18 to catch fire in Guam. Instead of ejecting, he landed safely, saving taxpayers $29 million.
Thomas has deployed eight times in all, including six to Iraq and Afghanistan. Right now only two of his 14 Hornets can fly. His Marines deploy in three months.
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“This last 30 days our average flight time per pilot was just over 4 hours,” said Thomas.
Ten years ago, Marine Corps pilots averaged between 25 and 30 hours in the air each month, according to one pilot. “This is the worst I’ve seen it,” he added. Another pilot who asked to remain nameless told Fox News that Chinese and Russian pilots fly more hours each month than Marine Corps pilots.
Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornets are supposed to have a shelf life of 6,000 hours, but they are being refurbished to extend the life to 8,000. There is talk that some aircraft might be pushed to 10,000 hours
Зачем вы этот бред про "Америке скоро кирдык" сюда тащите?СМИ узнали о выходе из строя большей части авиации морской пехоты США
Большая часть авиации корпуса морской пехоты США неисправна, рассказали иcточники Foxnews. По их словам, сокращения военного бюджета привели к невозможности восстановить поврежденную в Ираке и Афганистане военную технику
Попахивает бредом.У них 80%-это хороший(не отличный,как сами подчеркивали) уровень боеготовности,самолетов участвоваших во время войны в Ираке(не помню 1 или2) и это только из задействованных(переброшенных) на ТВД.Можете погуглить,у них степень боеготовности авиапарка почти каждый год указывается,запомнил что у Рапторов он равен 68%.Так что,в foxnews скорее правы,у Хорнета процентов 30.Генерал-лейтенант Джон Дэвис, заместитель коменданта авиационного департамента морской пехоты, засвидетельствовал перед сенатским комитетом по вооруженным силам в среду, что общий уровень исправности авиатехники USMC составляет 81 %. Основную долю неисправностей составляют Ф18... 81% это что, можно сдаваться?