Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Think Defence on the Ocelot.

Lee sent this article on the now modular Force Protection Ocelot and the story that Think Defence ran on it (thanks Lee...I already subscribe to him but...).

And the 'but' is in regards to the Ocelot concept.  What is it to actually be?  The British forces already have the Panther...they have the Jackal....the have a range of light weight MRAP type vehicles.

How would this vehicle fit into the US structure?  We have the JLTV...we're considering uparmoring and resetting the HUMVEE...where does this vehicle fit?

In my opinion this appears to be a 'rapid fielding initiative' that took too long and is no longer applicable.