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10th Mountain Division US Army first unit to receive JLTV 11806171.
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Defense & Security News - United States
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The 10th Mountain Division will be the first unit to receive new JLTV Joint Light Tactical Vehicles.
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An U.S. infantry brigade combat team of the 10th Mountain Division will be the first unit to get the new Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, or JLTVs, around January 2019 once full-rate production kicks in, said Col. Shane Fullmer.
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 A Joint Light Tactical Vehicle does a demonstration run around Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., June 14, 2017. (Photo Credit: David Vergun) |
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The brigade will receive 500 JLTVs on a one-for-one replacement of the unit's current fleet of Humvees, he said.
Officials said that a total of about 100 JLTVs are being provided this year by Oshkosh Defense, the maker of the vehicle, at a low-rate initial production of about 10 per month to the Army and Marine Corps for testing. The full suite of testing includes command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; reliability qualification; and live-fire, according to a chart provided at the media roundtable. The Army plans to purchase at least 50,000 JLTVs and the Marine Corps so far plans to buy about 5,500 for a total cost to both services of about $24 billion, with production extending over the course of 20 years, according to Army officials. |
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 (Photo Credit: David Vergun US Army website) |
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Four variants of the JLTV will be produced including general purpose, close-combat weapons carrier, heavy gun carrier and utility. Of those four variants, each comes in two door or four door options.
The two-seaters have an extended bed and are built to carry up to 5,100 pounds of supplies, he said. The four-seaters carry about 3,500 pounds, including four Soldiers seated and a fifth manning the weapons turret. Weapons that can be carried in the JLTV include .50-caliber machine guns, Mk-19 grenade launchers and TOW missiles, he noted. Requirements for the JLTV production included the ability to be airlifted by CH-47 or CH-53 helicopters and to have a similar footprint as the Humvee so they'd fit inside the decks of amphibious ships, Fullmer said. The first item that a driver will notice is the floating suspension, which can be adjusted. So for example, if the vehicle is in a 30-degree incline, the driver can flatten out the suspension to level the vehicle.
Also, the operator has a display that shows the condition of the vehicle, including the engine, transmission and suspension.
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