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More Stryker Brigades Planned?

Sep-24-2009 » Filed Under: Stryker Vehicle

The Pentagon is considering increasing the number of Stryker Brigades until the next generation of combat vehicles is developed.

The U.S. Army hopes to launch a new ground combat vehicle program in late fiscal 2010, and is seeing strong demand from military commanders for General Dynamics Corp Stryker vehicles in the meantime, a top U.S. Army general told Reuters on Wednesday.

"There are a lot of folks that believe that Stryker brigades are very useful in that environment. We are getting a lot of requests by commanders in Iraq, and now in Afghanistan," Brigadier General Thomas Spoehr, director of force development for the Army, told Reuters in an interview. [...]

Army Chief of Staff General George Casey approved moves to buy enough vehicles for two to five more brigades in early September, but the final decision is up to Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter, said two sources familiar with the plans.


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