Joint Heavy Lift JHL

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Joint Heavy Lift (JHL)
Background/Key Issues
Guiding Questions

• Joint Heavy Lift (JHL) Concept - supports Mounted
  Vertical Maneuver (MVM) and sustainment
  capabilities
• Rapid introduction and exploitation advantage
• Denys less tactically mobile enemy ability to
  concentrate and exposes their flanks
• Enables Commander to seize the initiative
• Exploits deployment momentum from intra-theater
  maneuver
• Closes gap between early entry and follow on
  forces
• Enables continuous sustainment from strategic
  providers across discontinuous air, sea and
  ground lines of communication
• Reduces dependence on improved infrastructure
• Improves the operational significance / viability
  of Seabasing

• How can Army - USMC improve development of joint
  lift programs (e.g. JCA/JHL) to meet future
  Services needs?
• How can the Army - USMC resolve service
  differences on asset usage and expectations?
• What is the best joint airlift investment and
  acquisition strategy given fiscal constraints and
  capability gaps?

Army Position/Objective
External Viewpoints

• The Army Science Board (ASB)
• VTOL JHL is more effective, more fuel efficient
  and has competitive program costs compared to a
  Fixed Wing Super Short Take-off and Landing
  (SSTOL) candidate
• VTOL significantly reduces improved
  infrastructure dependency
• VTOL improves viability of Seabasing concept
• Vertical maneuver operations concepts are already
  approved within the Joint Forcible Entry
  Operations and Seabasing JICs
• Vertical Take-off and Land (VTOL) is the best
  conceptual solution
• Request USMC support in the JROC/JCIDS process

• Navy concern - Seabasing supportability of VTOL
  JHL
• Believe it would require significant
  modifications to ship fleet to support stowage
  and landing requirements of larger 30 ton
  aircraft
• Air Force favors term - mounted aerial maneuver
  (MAM)
• Believe MVM is not a jointly vetted concept
• Favor a Short Take Off and Land (STOL) capability
  that requires a 2000 ft or greater runway.
• Defense Science Board
• No position on the merits or shortcomings of the
  MAM concept
• Addressed MAM but addressed its capabilities and
  what needs to be done if this concept is pursued
• VTOL aircraft present the toughest target to
  anti-air weapons as they drop vertically into a
  landing zone and lift off similarly

Desired Outcome Joint Collaboration
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Mobility Issues

• The replacement for the C-130 must
• Contain a larger fuselage capable of
  transporting Future Combat Systems (FCS) and
  Medium Weight Vehicles
• Support Mounted Vertical (MVM) and Sustainment
• Incorporate capabilities envisioned in Seabasing
  and Forcible Entry Operations Joint Integrating
  Concepts (JIC)
• Future Operating Questions
• How will Joint Force pursue Seabasing Concept?
• How will the Joint Force employ mobility assets
  differently to support COCOMs throughout the
  ROMO?
• What type of austere access and reduced
  infrastructure will the Joint Force need in the
  future?

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Mounted Vertical Maneuver (MVM)

• The Army views MVM and Sustainment as envisioned
  in the JHL as essential to support future
  operations to
• Rapidly introduce and exploit tactical movement
  advantages over a less mobile enemy to deny their
  ability to concentrate while exposing their
  flanks
• Conduct forcible entry and operational maneuver
  from strategic distances using organic force
  projection assets to the objective area without
  the need for improved infrastructure
• Exploit deployment momentum gained with
  intra-theater operational maneuver to enable the
  Commander to seize the initiative across the
  ROMO, from sea or land
• Quickly close the gap between early entry and
  follow on forces
• Enable continuous sustainment from strategic
  providers to forward elements across
  discontinuous lines of communication
• Improve the operational significance and
  viability of Seabasing

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Vertical Takeoff and Land (VTOL)

• MVM should incorporate capabilities present in
  Vertical Takeoff and Land (VTOL)
• Combines best aspects of both fixed wing and
  rotary wing aircraft to provide a truly
  expeditionary capability to future Army
  warfighting
• Eliminates dependency on improved infrastructure
  denying the enemy the ability to disrupt
  operations using point obstacles
• Exploits maritime maneuver space through
  Seabasing construct
• Enables rapid shift of task organized and combat
  ready maneuver and sustainment forces across
  breadth and depth of the battlespace
• Supports SOF infiltration and exfiltration
• Technically and fiscally viable

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Directly Addresses a Wide Range of Recognized
Joint Capability Gaps
Joint Operational Significance
Self-Deployable Operations Initiated From
Outside the JOA
Joint Sea Basing - OMFTS Exploit Maritime
Maneuver Space
Aerial Sustainment / Distributed Logistics to
Point of Need
SOF Mission Sets Extends Reach, Access, And
Precision
Airborne and Ground Refueling
Enables Assured Access w/i JOA Mounted Vertical
Maneuver
PLUS.
Disaster Relief Domestic International
Homeland Security Response
Coalition Building / COIN/SSTRO
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Joint Vertical Lift A Transformational
Capability Essential to Execute Joint Doctrine

• Use of the sea as maneuver space to create
  uncertainty for adversaries and provide force
  protection, while supporting the capacity to
  rapidly assemble and organize scalable joint
  force capabilities for accomplishment of a broad
  range of military missions without initially
  violating national sovereignties or relying on
  immediate access to secure land bases
• freedom to maneuver vertically to objectives
  within the JOA (Seabasing, P. 24)
• enable our forces to maneuver effectively to
  gain
• positional advantage, avoid battlefield obstacles
  and successfully attack the adversary even in the
  face of numerically superior forces (TPG p. 16)
• Increase the convergence in speed of deployment,
  speed of employment and speed of sustainment (TPG
  P. 36)
• improvements to logistics systems include
  innovations in delivery platforms (for example,
  range, payload, and speed)
• mission-tailored capabilities at the desired
  point of action from dispersed locations around
  the globe, regardless of anti-access or
  area-denial environments.