The US Army's upgunned Stryker programme has overcome technological problems in the past. (Janes)
The US Army's upgunned Stryker fighting vehicle is about to field in 2025, but it may take three years to fix some of its ongoing tech issues, a service official announced on 15 October.
Even if the turret is offline, the Medium Calibre Weapon System (MCWS) platform is still considered “mission capable”, Clifton Boyd, project manager for the Project Management Office Stryker Combat Team, said at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual conference in Washington, DC. The programme office will deliver a ‘get well' plan for the 30 mm cannon-outfitted Stryker Double V-Hull infantry carrier vehicles that could take up to three years but may take less time.
“Some of the things that I mentioned are [things that] we believe are very easy to fix, but we need to get all the data to make sure that when we address that issue, we address it once and we don't have it come back on us in a different way,” he told reporters. Because the main purpose of the platform is to be a troop carrier, the army views the programme as an increase in capability even with its “wrinkles”.
“This vehicle is important to be out there, especially being fielded on the West Coast, which has the Indo-Pacific mission,” Boyd said of the Oshkosh Defense-produced platform. “That lethality is required as they rotate through on the Korean peninsula, and so as it sits today, this is a very capable vehicle.”
There are three main issues with the vehicles that will be fielded in early 2025: software glitches, excess shell cases, and light emanating from the turret.
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