via Military.com
Airborne units may one day have tank-like firepower they can jump with on future forced-entry operations.U.S. Army requirements officials at Fort Benning, Ga., are in discussions with the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N.C., to develop "mobile protected firepower for light airborne infantry," Col. Rocky Kmiecik, director of the Mounted Requirements Division at the Army's Maneuver Center of Excellence, said Thursday at AUSA's winter meeting.Army leaders at Training and Doctrine Command are working on a Joint-entry Operations Concept that involves using the airborne community's forced-entry capabilities to thwart future enemy forces from using area-denial tactics against U.S. military forces, said TRADOC Commander Gen. Robert Cone Wednesday.Pretty awesome but its only a toe in the water.
Time for the Airborne Force to jump all in. They need to mech up. There is no reason for them not to experiment using Mike Sparks idea of air dropping M-113's and riding, not walking off the drop zone.
Whatever they finally do in the future, Mike Sparks is somewhere laughing his ass off. Slowly, after much criticism his ideas are winning the day.
