With Stryker deal, Argentina tightens US defense ties
Analysts said the deal, struck during a high-profile visit to Washington, came as Beijing also courts Buenos Aires.
Analysts said the deal, struck during a high-profile visit to Washington, came as Beijing also courts Buenos Aires.
“I want to make it very clear that the turret is not a mission essential system, if the turret was to go down, the vehicle is still mission capable,” said Clifton Boyd, the project manager for the Stryker brigade combat team.
“We're certainly aware that we could be doing more, but we've been saying from the beginning that we need to make sure that the Ukrainians have every tool available to them to maintain these systems,” Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said today.
While the service is still hunting for hard-kill APS solutions for the fleet, it is also looking more broadly at different formation protection options.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
The service has sent hundreds of ground combat vehicles to Ukraine since February 2022, and Maj. Gen. Glenn Dean warned that “sustainment challenges” abound without additional dollars.
A senior official noted that this package will not include the longer-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for the HIMARS, a point of contention among observers.
"We're trying to figure out how much autonomy you need, what's available, what's really mature now," Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean told Breaking Defense.
"There’s a supplier base, for example, underneath the primes that we have to also be aware of," the Army's acquisition chief said of balancing cuts to older platforms with modernization.
The Army 'did not need to look' at its modernization accounts to fund its budget, but Strykers and Abrams see procurement cuts in the fiscal 2023 request.
The new joint venture will focus its business activity on the European market, including growing existing buys in Germany and the UK, a senior company official told Breaking Defense.
The partnership will initially integrate onto Strykers, but as has an eye on future autonomous platforms.