Air-Mech-Strike

Mike Sparks, Al Huber, Major Charles A. Jarnot, LTC Richard D Liebert USAR, BG (R) Huba Wass de Czege, David L. Grange

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This book outlines how to reorganize the U.S. Army into a fully 2 and 3-Dimensional maneuver capable, ground force with terrain-agile, armored fighting vehicles sized to rapidly deploy by fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft to the scene of world conflicts and strike at the heart of freedom‚s enemies. The plan to build the Army into Air-Mech-Strike Forces, exploiting emerging information-age technologies, as well as America‚s supremacy in aircraft and helicopter delivery systems---at the lowest cost to the taxpayers, is described in detail. These Army warfighting organizations, using existing and some newly purchased equipment, will shape the battlefield to America‚s advantage, preserving the peace before it is lost; if not, then winning fights that must be fought quickly. The dangerous world we live in moves by the speed of the AIR, and the 21st Century U.S. Army 2D/3D combat team will dominate this medium by Air-Mech-Strike!

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• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2002
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781681623634
• Langue: English
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Air-Mech-Strike Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare
Commander - What if you had the ability to ?...

* Strategically deploy your combat Brigade in 96 hours and your Division in 120.

* Project your force directly into the area of operations, negating anti-access initiatives by your enemy.

* Maneuver lethal, mobile and protected mechanized forces throughout your battlespace for positional advantage - at the right place, at the right time, with the right force mix.

* Take advantage of all terrain, optimizing the strengths of your heavy and light forces against enemy weakness -- Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare.

* Exercise greater agility over the enemy with the flexibility and rapid tempo of your force.

* Simultaneously strike your enemy from any direction.
Air-Mech-Strike
Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare for the 21 st Century
BG DAVID L. GRANGE, U.S. Army (Retired) BG HUBA WASS DE CZEGE, U.S. Army (Retired) LTC RICHARD D. LIEBERT, USAR MAJ CHARLES A. JARNOT, U.S. Army MAJ ALLEN L. HUBER, U.S. Army LT MICHAEL L. SPARKS, USAR Foreword by LTG Harold G. Moore U.S. Army (Retired)
Copyright 2002 by the Air-Mech-Strike Study Group (Airborne) Publishing Rights: Turner Publishing Company
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by a process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 01-105946 ISBN: 978-1-68162-362-7
First published in 2000 Second edition published in 2002 Turner Publishing Company


NOTICE: The opinions and scenarios expressed in this book are those of the authors only and do not express the policies or plans of the U.S. Department of Defense or the U.S. Army.
Contents
Illustrations
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Lieutenant General Harold G. Hal Moore (Ret.)

1. Introduction
2. Purpose
3. Understanding U.S. Army 3D maneuver history
Russian Air-Mech History-Jacob W. Kipp and Lester W. Grau
4. Air-Mech-Strike: 3D Army maneuver warfare theory
5. Principles for fighting Air-Mech-Strike Forces
6. Air-Mech-Strike is possible today
7. 3D Air-Mech-Strike Weapons, Equipment, Ground Vehicles and C4 ISR
8. 3D Air-Mech-Strike organizations
9. Air-Mech-Strike Forces in Action
Interim Air-Mech Force in Kosovo
Interim Air-Mech Force in Korea
Interim Air-Mech Force in Southwest Asia
10. 3D Air-Mech-Strike Phalanx training and readiness
11. Air-Mech-Strike Future?
Wing-In-Ground Effect aircraft-Jacob W. Kipp and Lester W. Grau
12. Summary/Conclusions

Bibliography
Appendix A: Glossary of Military Terms
Appendix B: Air-Mech-Strike future concepts Illustrated
Index
Key Staff Biographies
Air-Mech-Strike Forces Intervene in Afghanistan, 2010
SITUATION: The United States conducts pre-emptive strikes in support of the elected government of Afghanistan to eliminate re-emerged terrorists destabilizing the country.
DEPLOYMENT:
C-Day (Deployment) the Army's fleet of 50 leased commercial wide-body jets (Winged Army Pre-positioned Stocks- Winged APS ), begin flying from airfields in the Southwest United States to a former Soviet Air Force Base, ISB (Initial Staging Base) in Uzbekistan. 50 aircraft are pre-loaded with a complete Air-Mech-Strike (AMS) Brigade set (300 AMS-Light Ridgway fighting vehicles) with vital supplies. On-call, Air Force reserve crews are federalized and fly the aircraft fleet to deliver the first Brigade set in 24 hours. Meeting objective force deployment goals of 120 hours, the aircraft cycle back to the U.S. and complete delivery of the entire Air-Mech-Strike Division's three Brigades vehicles, equipment and vital supplies for sustained operations.
101 st AMS Division s 12,000 troops deploy by charter airliners to link-up to the Winged APS.
The Division s 150 UH-60, 75 RAH-66 and 50 CH-47 fast compound helicopters self-deploy in 120 hours from Fort Campbell, Kentucky to the ISB in Uzbekistan. Aircraft arrive with only modest stress on the rotor systems requiring little additional maintenance before combat operations due to lift-providing wings unloading rotors for 200+ mph flight at reduced fuel rates.
Winged APS, self-deploying compound helicopters free scarce USAF fixed-wing aircraft so the 82 nd Airborne Air-Mech-Strike Division with new technology AMS-Medium M113A3 Gavin fighting vehicles and AMS-Heavy M8 Armored 105mm Gun System light tanks parachute force-entry, seizing key cities, infrastructure nodes defeating terrorist forces with T -55/62 medium tanks. Afghan governmental control is restored, as the hunt for remaining terrorists continues ...
EMPLOYMENT:
101 st AMS Division combat operations begin on C+6. Special Operations Units and other Joint reconnaissance elements prepare the battlefield for Air Assault AMS operations against terrorist camps, supply caches and command and control sites.
AMS Brigade Combat Teams conduct air assaults against targets out to 400 kilometer radius using Ridgway AMSV-Lights with excellent over-snow, steep, rocky terrain mobility to transport infantry squads under armor protection. Selected Ridgway fighting vehicles render long-range 120mm high-angle mortar fires to lay smoke to screen assaulting infantry, destroy point targets with guided projectiles, and cut-off fleeing terrorists. Supporting dismounted air assaults (to 600 kilometers) seize key terrain, cut communications, link-up with friendly forces to isolate terrorist camps.
Extended ranges via compound helicopters facilitate combat operations without refuel sites, additional security and/or wheeled ground convoy resupply requirements. Compound Reconnaissance-Attack helicopters provide responsive targeting throughout the area of operations.
Screaming Eagle and All American Air-Mech-Strike capabilities provide command authorities rapid, strategic deployable forces, operational flexibility and swift, decisive combat operations.
Illustrations
Figure 1 Soldier Poem
Figure 2 British CH-47s Air-Meching vehicles into Kosovo
Figure 3 How AMS builds bridge to the future
Figure 4 Russian Air-Mechanized operations
Figure 5 U.S. Air-Mechanized operations
Figure 6 Proposed Ridgway Fighting Vehicle (RFV)
Figure 7 Proposed AMS Gavin Fighting Vehicle (GFV)
Figure 8 UH-60 Streamlined External Load (SEL) of RFV
Figure 9 Rotary-wing Air Delivery methods
Figure 10 Airdrop: Low-Velocity parachutes (Para-Mech)
Figure 11 Airland: AMS vehicles by 747s save C-17s and C-130s
Figure 12 Air-Mech-Strike Vehicle superior 2D agility
Figure 13 Flyer 21 AMSV-Ultralight
Figure 14 Air-Mech-Strike AFV comparisons
Figure 15 M8 Armored 105mm Gun Systems (AGS) light tank
Figure 16 Air-Mech-Strike symbology
Figure 17 Army Combat Division: HEAVY chart
Figure 18 Army Combat Division: LIGHT chart
Figure 19 Army Combat Division: AIR ASSAULT chart
Figure 20 Army Combat Division: AIRBORNE chart
Figure 21 Gavin Fighting Vehicle Infantry Battalion
Figure 22 Ridgway Fighting Vehicle Infantry Battalion
Figure 23 Ridgway 120mm mortar: BV-206S based
Figure 24 Kosovo situation map: What if we had attacked in 1999?
Figure 25 Korean situation map: DEFENSIVE operations 2004
Figure 26 Korean situation map: OFFENSIVE operations 2004
Figure 27 Kuwait situation map: DETERRENCE operations 2005
Figure 28 Russian Wing-In-Ground (WIG) effect aircraft
Figure 29 Conflict Resolution SO/Combat with Air-Mech-Strike
Appendix B Future Air-Mech-Strike concepts
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the present and future U.S. Army Soldier who will have to win the wars and maintain the peace in an increasingly dangerous world. To help him in this duty and to give us direction, we also dedicate this book to the memory of two of the U.S. Army s and America s-greatest heroes.
Lieutenant General James Maurice Gavin , whose concept of an Airborne Armored U.S. Army force that can fly into battle and have maximum terrain agility, will be fulfilled in the 21 st Century. A man ahead of his time who wrote the book on how U.S. Airborne forces would drop into battle ready-to-fight; not have to look for separate equipment containers. A man who was always the first to jump into battle in WWII. After the war, he wrote on Airborne warfare, got us our first air-deployed armored personnel carriers, light tanks, improved parachuting and promoted the Air Assault concept used successfully during Vietnam. We honor him by naming the Medium Armored Vehicle of the immediate future -the Gavin Fighting Vehicle .
General Matthew Bunker Ridgway , who was a senior Airborne commander during WWII. A leader whose firepower tactics turned the tide of battle during the bleak hours of the Korean War. A man that walked the line of our frostbitten troops insuring they were taken care of with boots, socks and warm food, yet had grenades taped to his web gear and rifle in hand ready-to-fight. We name the future helo-deployable Reconnaissance/Air Assault armored vehicle the Ridgway after him for his love of Soldiers and his contributions towards 3-dimensional warfare.
THE STAFF, AIR-MECH-STRIKE/Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare:
David L. Grange (BG-R)
Richard D. Liebert (LTC)
Charles A. Jarnot (MAJ)
Emery E. Nelson
Allen L. Huber (MAJ)
John S. Wilson II (CPT)
Roy S. Ardillo
Huba Wass de Czege (BG-R)
Lester W. Grau (LTC-R)
Michael L. Sparks (LT)
John E. Richards (SGT)
Carlton G. Meyer (CPT-R)
Larry A. Altersitz (LTC-R)
Carol A. Murphy
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the following people for actions above and beyond the call of duty for making this work possible: to Colonel Douglas A. MacGregor who started this project by publishing the first Phalanx book and sending us his briefing to the Army Chief of Staff. He explained how Air-Mechanized maneuvers are being extensively studied/wargamed by both U.S. and its allies for future military operations. One of those leading advocates of American Air-Mech theory, Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege (Retired) has been very inspiring to us