LTCOL B'A' Richards, Deputy Director Combat

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LAND 400 UPDATE
SURVIVABILITY OF GROUND FORCES
LTCOL B.A. Richards, Deputy Director Combat
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SCOPE

• Government guidance
• Justification
• Development concepts
• Current intent
• Conclusion

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SURVIVABILITY OF GROUND FORCES

• Enhance the survivability of land forces in
  combat operations through the provision of new
  warfighting systems
• Incrementally replace the Armys current combat,
  combat support and some combat service support
  systems

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GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE

• Life of type of current land fighting vehicle
  systems (M113AS3 and ASLAV) is about 2020
• Commence replacement of some elements of the
  system from about 2015
• Year of decision 2011-14
• Estimated budget A1B-1.5B

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STRATEGY

• Land 400 Phase 1 will commence replacement of the
  ADFs combat team systems from 2015 to support a
  more survivable, capable and interoperable range
  of land combat options, with reduced operating
  costs and sustainable Australian content, to
  ensure the Australian Army remains above regional
  capabilities and continues to meet Government
  expectations

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JUSTIFICATION

• Achieve ADF strategic tasks
• Meet future close combat capability requirements
• Control net personnel and operating costs

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COMPLEX WARFIGHTING

• Enhance ground combat force survival
• below the detection threshold
• when the enemy seeks to hide in complex terrain
• in penetrating complex terrain to win close
  combat
• to create, support, request and/or coord
  recon-fire actions
• when operating in small groups

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FLEET TRANSITION
LEO 103
Retain/Rebuild M1A1?
M1A1 M88A2 66
LAND 400 PHASE 1
M113AS3/4 350
LAND 400
M113 766
BUSHMASTER 299
PHASES 2-3?
PHASE 4 ENHANCEMENT (Yet to be approved)
ASLAV 257
LAND 121 PH3A
LAND 121 PH3B
B VEH
2005
2015
2020
2010
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DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT
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Land 400 Combat System Encompasses all CVS in the
land output their platforms, integrated attribute
sub-systems and hosted weapons, sensors and
knowledgesystems allocated to combined arms teams
Phase 1 introduces priority CVS,establishes
system ILS Introduces an advanced Trainingsystem
Platforms Individual Combat Vehiclesincluding
unmanned systems
Attribute Sub-SystemsMob, surv, Knlge,
Leth,Sustain
Hosted Sub-SystemsMor, AD, AT, EW, Mob,CtrMob,
C4,
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SYSTEM NEED STATEMENT

• LAND 400 will deliver a future combat vehicle
  system consisting of network capable manned and
  unmanned ground and air platforms from 2015 with
  a superior balance of survivability, knowledge,
  lethality, mobility and sustainability that can
  survive and win combat in open and complex
  terrain within a wide range of environments, in
  order for Army to continue to present viable land
  combat options to Government.

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KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Under development
• Key areas
• deployment and mobility
• survivability
• lethality
• command, control and ISR
• support and sustainment

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SENIOR GUIDANCE

• More analysis needed to pass Troika and 1st Pass
  committees
• Understanding required about Armys shape and
  rotation posture
• Total scope of LAND 400 important
• Assessment. Need to find balance between Army
  structures, project options and stakeholder
  preferences

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WAY AHEAD
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2005
2012
REQTS OPTIONS
BUSINESS CASE
COMMITTEE
TENDER
BUSINESS CASE
COMMITTEE
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2ND PASS?
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CONCLUSION

• LAND 400 will enhance the survivability of land
  forces in combat operations through the provision
  of new combat systems
• It will require a sophisticated balance between
  Army structures, project options and stakeholder
  preferences