Comments on: Army Awards JLTV Contracts

By: Barger

Barger — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:49:18 +0000

I guess I am going to need a bigger garage.

By: Tacobrava

Tacobrava — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:29:52 +0000

I believe 16,500 is the vehicle wt requirement as stated in the PD. BAE’s JLTV scales in at 16,300 lbs which is suppose to be the only vehicle of the three winners that actually meets the weight req.

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:43:03 +0000

Here is a very recent GAO report:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RS22942.pdf

Also check out Wikipedia, Greg. The weights you listed are payloads…not the vehicle weight.

The GAO report points out that the Army may not be able to afford to buy 60,000 JLTV as originally desired. And with all the MRAP purchases and perfectly good uparmored Hummers that can be refurbished, you would think we could get by with fewer. Use the MRAPs as engineer replacements for M-113s.

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:18:11 +0000

“May 2006: $200-260K?”

Don’t recall where, but it seems like I read it will be more like $400-450K now which somewhat shocked me until I saw what MRAPs cost. Don’t believe they envisioned quite as much armor originally.

With that armor, seems like I read that many versions will be 20,000 lbs.…which explains the Chinook and CH-53.