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Technical Challenges of the U.S. Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle Program: Working Paper 2012-15

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  • Bernard Kempinski
  • Christopher Murphy

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The U.S. Army plans to spend about an additional $34 billion in 2013 dollars to develop and purchase a new armored vehicle for its infantry, the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV). The GCV is supposed to operate across the full range of potential conflict types while providing unprecedented levels of protection for the full squad of soldiers it will carry. To achieve the Army’s goals, the GCV would weigh from 64 to 84 tons, making it the biggest and heaviest infantry fighting vehicle that the Army has ever fielded—as big as the M1 Abrams tank and twice as heavy as the Bradley, the

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  • Bernard Kempinski & Christopher Murphy, 2012. "Technical Challenges of the U.S. Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle Program: Working Paper 2012-15," Working Papers 43699, Congressional Budget Office.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbo:wpaper:43699
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