The UK Medium Weight Capability

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The UK Medium Weight Capability

• Brig Bill Moore CBE
• Director Equipment Capability Ground Manoeuvre

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Current UORs

• Mounted Close Combat
• WR/CR2 enhanced armour protection (several
  iterations)
• CVR(T) mine blast and ballistic protection and
  bar armour
• Saxon ambulance and Public Order modifications
  and bar armour
• ECM onto WR, CR2, CVR(T), SAXON FV430
• FV430 major protection upgrade (ERA/bar armour)
• Armd Veh Sight Protection
• Veh mounted wire-cutters (A B Vehs)
• VIKING protection
• Dismounted Close Combat
• Future Support Weapon (40mm AGL)
• 60mm Mortar
• Addnl WMIK (including protection), Protected
  Patrol Vehicles (VECTOR) HMG
• B Vehicle protection
• Enhanced body armour protection
• Iterations ECBA/OSPREY/KESTREL

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Kestrel
Osprey
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Sustained Armoured Vehicle CapabilityDIS
Pathfinder
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Defence Industrial Strategy The Problem

• Through Life Capability thinking not embedded
• Conspiracy of Optimism generates failure
• Lack of effective early engagement with industry
• Fear-based, not incentive based culture
• Too many players in the acquisition game
• Need for extensive and coherent programme
  management

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DIS What we need to achieve

• A better understanding of the military capability
  we need to maintain
• A better understanding of industrial capability
  and capacity
• Better value for money for the taxpayer better
  shareholder value for industry
• A better working culture between the Department
  and our defence industry colleagues
• Better delivery to the Front Line

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AFV Initiative Relationships
UORs
Current Fleet
Updates Upgrades
Future Fleet
FRES
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SAVC The Deliverables

• AFV Strategy - Jul 06 through ECAB to IAB by
  Aug 06.
• Though Life Capability Management Plan (TLCMP) -
  working draft Oct 06, costed Apr 07
• Challenge the process, helping to change it where
  it will add value (doing things better and doing
  better things).

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MWCap Strategic Intent

• MWCap is an effects-based military capability
  made up of Joint Force Elements and optimised for
  Focused Intervention, Power Projection and Peace
  Support Operations.
• MWCap will be air portable at small scale for
  rapid deployment within 7 days to the core
  regions. At Medium Scale, MWCap may act as the
  first echelon of a larger force.
• MWCap will deliver greater lethality, protected
  mobility and endurance than Lighter Forces,
  without the deployment, logistic and support
  limitations of Heavy Forces.

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Delivering The Medium Weight Capability
Jt ISTAR
Medium Weight Capability
Jt Fires
Air Lift
Sea Lift
Joint Force .to Core Regions to provide a Small
and Medium Scale element.
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Medium Weight Capability
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Definitions

• Key delineator for all
• Relate specifically to MWCap rather than just
  wider defence
• STRATEGIC Those programmes that effect a Step
  change
• SIGNIFICANT Those programmes that enable a step
  change

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THE BENEFITS OF THE MEDIUM WEIGHT CAPABILITY
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Benefits Grow over Time
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RAPID
ENVIRONMENT
PANTHER
RANGE REACH
WATCHKEEPER
IN- THEATRE CAPABILITY
SUSTAINMENT
FORCE PREPARATION
REDUCE WHOLE LIFE COSTS
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STRATEGIC EQUIPMENTS SUPPORTING THE BENEFITS OF
THE MEDIUM WEIGHT CAPABILITY
RAPID Ops
STEP 2 Regeneratable Cap for Rapid Small Scale
Operation
STEP 1 One-off Rapid Small Scale Operation
ENVIRONMENT
RANGE REACH
IN- THEATRE CAPABILITY
SUSTAINMENT
FORCE PREPARATION

• BOWMAN/CIP
• OperationalTactical Comms System

• 5TH C17
• 5-7 times payload of C-130
• Outsize lift capability
• Faster and more reliable than C-130

REDUCE WLC
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STRATEGIC EQUIPMENTS THAT WILL SUPPORT THE
BENEFITS OF THE MEDIUM WEIGHT CAPABILITY
STEP 4 Expeditionary Capability for Rapid Small
Medium Scale Ops
STEP 3 Regeneratable Cap for Rapid Small Scale
Operation
RAPID Ops
STEP 2 Regeneratable Cap for Rapid Small Scale
Operation
STEP 1 One-off Rapid Small Scale Operation
ENVIRONMENT
RANGE REACH
PANTHER
IN- THEATRE CAPABILITY
WATCHKEEPER
SUSTAINMENT

• A400M
• Twice the payload of C130
• 100 Kts Faster
• 500 Kms further

FORCE PREPARATION

• FRES
• Better manoeuvre support for warfighting,
  delivering higher tempo
• Improved commonality leading to reduced logistics
  footprint
• Enhanced data exchange/better situational
  awareness

• WATCHKEEPER.
• 30 Reduction in Whole Life Cost (PHOENIX)
• 4x Endurance
• Step change in Sensors Capability.

REDUCE WLC

• DEPLOYABLE HOSPITAL
• Role 3 Facility (political imperative)

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AFV Strategy
Upgrades are required throughout in service fleet
Heavy Force
Heavy Force Step Change
Capability Sustainment Programme
CR2/CRARRV
Future Ground Manoeuvre Capability (FGMC) 2035
Capability Sustainment Programme
TITAN/TROJAN
Spin off technologies and designs into FGMC
Capability Sustainment Programme
Warrior
Medium Force
Medium Force Step Change
FRES
Production ends?
UK RESTRICTED
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Warrior
Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme (WCSP)
Manned Turret Integration Programme (MTIP) TDP
Coherence
FRES Scout
Recent Upgrades
ABSV
Bowmanisation/P-BISA
Warrior Lethality Improvement Programme (WLIP)
Common fielding and software integration
UORs
WR Enhanced Electronic Architecture (WEEA)
BGTI
FIST
Enhanced Armour Protection
WRAP 1
(WRAP 2)
Other FP Measures
HUMS
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FV 430

• FV430 Out of Service date (OSD) now not before
  2025
• Powertrain update (Mark 3) required to address
  obsolescence and removal of legislative exemption
• Mark 3 Uparmoured Enhanced Armour Protection UOR

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2006
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CVR(T)

• Battlegroup Thermal Imaging (Close Recce
  Scimitar) 2004

Mine Blast and Ballistic Protection Additional
buy in 2006 - 7
Bowman and P-BISA Installation 2004-08
Formation Recce GW TroopsSpartan with Javelin
(2006)
Bar Armour UOR (ISD Jun 05)
Bar Armour UOR 2005
Crowded vehicle at the limit of exploitation!
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120mm Smooth Bore TDP

• Successful demonstration of hybrid smoothbore
  cannon in Challenger 2
• Enables data-enabled breech and Gun Launched
  Anti-Tank Guided Missile
• Essential and successful de-risking for CR2
  Lethality Improvement Programme (CLIP)
• Further work over next 4 years to look at
• 24 hunter/killer Commanders Panoramic Sight
• Regenerable CBRN
• Reworked turret bustle, trunnions and ammo
  storage and ammunition natures
• Planning a CSP around 2015-2020
• CR2 and CRARRV
• CLIP
• Technology Insertion

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The Balanced Force

• Sustainment of Heavy capability
• WR CSP (Heavy and Medium)
• 120 SB TDP
• Enhancement of Medium capability
• CVR(T) fleet balancing and enhancements
• FV 430 upgrade

Powertrain much improved reliability, and
mobility comparable to WR Protection ERA giving
better protection than Stryker
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AFV Weight Growth
Diesel engine Thermal Imaging Laser range
finder Navigation system Bowman Mine blast
and ballistic protection Bar armour
Electronic Counter Measures ?
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Future Rapid Effect System
Statement of User Need The user requires a
family of rapidly-deployable, network-enabled
armoured vehicles able to conduct sustained,
expeditionary, full spectrum operations with
minimal logistic footprint, in combined-arms,
joint and multi-national contexts, in a wide
range of future operating environments

• Incremental Delivery
• Early in the next decade
• Around 3775 vehicles
• 17 roles

FRES primary goal is to enable armoured and
mechanised brigades to carry out operations
across the spectrum of conflict.
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FRES Position

• Strong position established in 2005
• Fleet Review has not yet been endorsed by
  Defence ECAB position taken in Jan 06.
• Acquisition Strategy being developed
  acceleration options in parallel
• Systems and Programme Review 1 on 20-23 Jun 06
• IAB and Min DP closely involved with charting the
  way forward

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Distribution of FRES Throughout The Balanced Force
Percentage of future armd/mech force trained on
FRES
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FRES as a Family
Utility
Heavy
Recce
Specialist
Likely to be wheeled 8x8 (25-30T)
Likely to be tracked (30-40T)
Likely to be tracked (20-25T)
The FRES requirement is likely to be met by up to
3 families of AFVs with commonality at
sub-system level
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Utility Vehicle Discriminators

• Protection and Weight
• Growth
• Legislation
• Engine Emissions
• Vibration
• Non discriminators at Fleet Review
• Supportability
• Cost
• Acquisition Strategy

Essential for capability through life
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The FRES Threat Spectrum

• Heavy Machine Gun
• Kinetic Energy
• Chemical Energy (especially RPGs, EFPs, tandem
  warheads, top attack)
• Artillery fragments and bomblets
• CBRN
• IEDs and mines
• Enhanced Blast
• Electro Optic Counter Measures
• Laser dazzle
• RF weapons

Multiple attacks from all directions
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Comparison with Allies

• FR VBCI - 28 tonnes protection similar to FRES
  IOC variants
• GE PUMA - 31 tonnes (fly light) rising to 43
  tonnes IFV but similar protection to FRES IOC
  variants
• USA FCS 20.5 tonnes protection more
  demanding than FRES ( heavier reliance on
  networked capability)

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Pragmatic About Requirements

• Threshold requirement is achievable
• Objective is challenging in some respects
• Trading process will continue
• C130
• A400M and C17 deployment ranges
• Transporting by ISO container
• etc
• Incremental delivery of capability
• But with a growth path to the Objective
  requirement