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By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 14, 2021 at 2:09 PM The M113 has been in service since Vietnam — but the Army needs to keep the ones it has working until they’re replaced by the new AMPV. Shown here is an experimental automated testbed. WASHINGTON: The Army’s boxed into a budgetary corner where budget cuts would imperil a “fragile” modernization effort, topofficials warned on Tuesday. The service has already done three years of grueling “night court” drills to winnow low-priority programs from the budget, moving over $30 billion dollars – with steadily diminishing retur...

The Army Is Ditching All of Its Stryker Mobile Gun Systems A Stryker equipped with a mobile gun system fires a round of high explosive ammunition July 26, 2011 at Yakima Training Center, Wash. (Mark Miranda/U.S. Army) 12 May 2021 The Army announced Wednesday that it is planning to divest all of its Stryker Mobile Gun Systems by the end of fiscal 2022. The service said in a news release it had decided the time has come to retire the M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System after a study showed it is obsolete, and its out-of-date cannon and automatic loader have systemic issues. "Decisions on when it is...

The Army will divest its Stryker Mobile Gun Systems by the end of fiscal 2022.

US Army chief says end strength will stay flat in upcoming budgets 4 days ago Gen. James McConville, left, said Army end strength will likely stay the same if budgets don't grow, but the service will do what it can to make sure numbers don't go down. (Spc. Thomas Scaggs/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army chief of staff has said that if the budget top line in future years either stays the same or decreases, he doesn’t see the service’s end strength dropping, but he also doesn’t see it growing. “When it comes to what chiefs have to grapple with in a budget, it’s end strengt...

Army ‘taking a hard look’ at what end-strength it can actually afford February 18 Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade pictured in December at Grafenwöhr Training Area, in Germany. (Maj. Robert Fellingham/Army) As the Army faces tighter budgets in the coming years, keen observers wonder whether ambitious modernization programs will be curtailed to make way for end-strength growth, or vice versa. “We’d like a much bigger Army, but what I have to do at my level is say, you know, what can we actually afford,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville said Wednesday durin...