BAE Systems Navistar JLTV Video

Navistar Defense and BAE Systems unveiled their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) at Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Winter Symposium and Exposition in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida on Feb 27, 2008.

What is JLTV?

JLTV is a Joint Army/Marine Corps program, which consists of a family of vehicles (FoV) with companion trailers capable of performing multiple mission roles that will be designed to provide protected, sustained, networked mobility for personnel and payloads across the full range of military operations (traditional to irregular).


The initial production of JLTV's will provide the Operational Forces with tactical wheeled vehicles that provide a high level of scalable protection, improved sustainment, and net-ready maneuver platforms, that are strategically and operationally transportable, and tactically mobile across all terrain.

What will JLTV do for the Warfighter?

The JLTV capabilities represent a shift to adapt from a threat-based, Cold War garrison force focused on containment to a capabilities-based expeditionary force focused on flexibility, survivability, force protection, responsiveness, and agility.

JLTV Capabilities:

The JLTV FoV must be capable of operating across a broad spectrum of terrain and weather conditions. The services and the SOCOM require enhanced capabilities, greater than those provided by the existing High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) to support the Joint Functional Concepts (JFC) of Battlespace Awareness (BA), Force Application (FA), and Focused Logistics (FL). To that end, the approved JLTV ICD, and the Draft CDD identifies required capabilities for the next generation of JLTVs needed to support Joint Forces across the full Range of Military Operations (ROMO) and provide a vital force enabler, multiplier and extender.

The HMMWV is inadequate for the current operational environment; it has serious survivability, mobility, reliability and operational flexibility limitations.
Original HMMWV design is 25+ years old.
MRAP is not an LTV. MRAP has limited transportability, payload and off-road capabilities.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• BAE
• Systems
• Navistar
• JLTV
• Joint
• Light
• Tactical
• Vehicle

[jabtrade]

What a rediculas looking vehicle

Looks like some BAE employee has a 1st grader and their classroom-doodle some how was taken to work by Mommy or Daddy and the drawing made it to the table, since they had on other ideas.

Seriously, the vehicle looks like a Dodge, Mitsubishi Evolution and an F-117A crashed together - Might work for Hollywood, doesn't work for our troops. ( I can still hear Benny-Hill in the back ground )

[zilch77]

Looks funny to you but the Marines and Army like this particular vehicle. It works for them and that is the only opinion that matters.

[sapperzulu]

"..the survivability is what it needs to be to meet the requirement"?

Negative.... The survivability has to surpass the requirement.

It looks pretty low to the ground for my taste.... eithir way.... are we going to wait 2 years to field this while our Joes need a Humvee Replacement now!?

[zilch77]

The requirements for survivablity are very high for this program. Meeting it is quit a challenge.

The vehicle is actually high off the ground and exceeds the requirements for the Marine and Army to clear obstacles and mine blast.

This program has been in the works for a little awhile now.Two years is actually a very quick pace to get something fielded.

[pixelTRE]

Man this thing is ugly...

[Giuelith]

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[Conservativepacheat]

theres no need to waste more tax money we has a new u.s.a made vehicle Oshkosh M-ATV , if you want to help the usa build factories to build t.v and p.c and all types of goodies to sell to americans and the world,like we use to! and stop buying everthing from china wake the f---- up

[heavylifter315]

Well theres a couple of advantages and disadvantages to each setup. Open turret makes the soldier whos gunning more vulnerable and allows a week spot on the vehicle. But it also allows a set of ears outside the vehicle which would be usefull when your just sitting out at night on an observation post/listening post. A closed turret would be ideal for maximum protection. Also close turrets usually have the advantage of advance optics and sighting system but those can be very costly and unreliable.

[supremancy]

Looks good to me!!

For all those military guys out there. wouldent you think an enclosed turrent would be better than an open top one?? With the IEDs going off right next to the vehical i would feel vunerable as a gunner.

[UseTheMan999]

looks just like futuristic vehicles in 80's movies.. judge dred balde runner no?

[sapperzulu]

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[heckkoch9]

room for what? crew of 7? have you geared up in body armor and sat in the vehicle? BAE's JLTV already meets ALL requirements. .you can't say much for FRPT, OshKosh, Lockheed, Northrop, etc. ..show me another JLTV competitor that meets ALL requirements like BAE...you can't.

[waveman69]

BAE's vehicle doesn't come close to providing the room needed in the JLTV. It looks like they just threw a body on a dune buggy. No way this will go anywhere. Crappy design by an unproven player in mine resistant capability.

[mz1409]

DINGO2 its better