Rat, which has nowhere to fight
The United States is one of the few countries in the Armed Forces of which the ground forces are not the dominant type, either in terms of number, number of weapons and equipment, nor in contribution to military operations, nor in terms of influence. For the Americans, the fleet has always been the most important type of armed forces, then aviation.
But even despite the current "fatigue from wars" and the Pentagon budget cuts, the US Army retains enormous potential.
Their organization is very complex due to the number and spatial scope. There are headquarters field armies (PA), which, as a rule, duplicate the territorial command and must replace them in case of war. On the territory of the USA there are corps - army (AK) and airborne (VDK). But the main type of formations are divisions, each of which currently includes two or three line brigades and an army aviation brigade. The first are divided into heavy (armored), light (infantry, airborne) and Stryker (they can be considered average), equipped with the same combat vehicles.
The Ground Forces Command (headquarters in Fort Bragg, North Carolina) has one PA, two AKs, one VDK, two training centers, 32-e Air Defense Command and Reserve Command.
3-st AK (Fort Hood, Texas) includes most of the heavy compounds. The 1 Armored Division (Fort Bliss, Texas) has the Stryker 1, 2 and 3 heavy (armored), 212 artillery and army aviation brigades. 1 Cavalry (Armored) Division (Fort Hood): 1, 2, 3-I armored, 41-I artillery and army aviation brigades. 1-I Infantry Division (Fort-Riley, Kansas): 1, 2-I armored and army aviation brigade. 4 Infantry Division (Fort-Carson, Colorado): Stryker 1, Infantry 2, 3 Armored and Army Aviation Brigade. In addition, the 3-th AK has a number of corps subordination structures. These are the 3 Cavalry Regiment (equivalent to the Stryker Brigade), 75-I Artillery, 36-I Engineering, 89-I Military Police, 504-I Intelligence, 1, 4, 15, 43-I support brigade.
The 18 VDC (Fort Bragg) includes most of the mobile connections. The 3 Infantry Division (Fort Stewart, GA) has the 1 Armored, 2 Infantry, 3 Army Brigade. 10-I Light Infantry (Mountain) Division (Fort Drum, New York): 1, 2, 3-I infantry and army aviation brigades. 82 Airborne Division (Fort Bragg): 1, 2, 3-I and Army Aviation Brigade. 101-I Airborne Division (Fort Campbell, Kentucky): 1, 2, 3-i brigade, 101, 159-i brigade of army aviation. In addition, the 18-th VDK has a number of corps subordination structures. These are 20-th command of the RHBZ, 16-I military police, 18-I artillery, 20-I engineering, 525-I reconnaissance brigade, 108-I air defense (simultaneously subordinate to the above-mentioned 32 th air defense command), 44-I medical, XNX transport, 7 communication, 35, 3, 10, 82 communication brigade.
1-th AK (Fort Lewis-McCord, Washington) - a pool of reserve-training nature. The 7 Infantry Division (Fort Lewis) is not considered a combat unit, its headquarters is responsible only for combat training and logistical support of the attached units. These are the 1 and the Stryker 2 Brigade of the 2 Infantry Division, the 16-I Army Aviation, the 17-I Artillery, the 555-I Engineering and the 201-I reconnaissance brigades. In addition, as part of the 1-th AK there are 42-I military police and 62-I medical brigade as part of the 593-th security command.
The 1-I PA (Rock Island, Illinois) includes two training divisions. Vostok (Fort Knox, Kentucky) has 157, 158, 174, 188, 205 th infantry, 177 th armored, 4 th artillery brigades. Division West (Fort Hood, Texas): 72, 120, 181 and 189-I infantry, 191-I artillery, 402-I armored brigades. The ground forces reserve command (Fort Bragg) is primarily responsible for the logistics of the ground forces. It includes brigades: medical 5, aviation, support 10, engineering 9, military police 2.
In addition, the Ground Forces Command has two training centers - Fort Irwin and joint training. The 11 armored cavalry regiment (equivalent to the armored brigade), which serves as a conditional enemy for other units and formations, is deployed in Fort Irvine.
The highest-level commanders in the United States are also training (Fort-Eustis, Virginia) and MTO (Redstone, Alabama), their purpose is clear from the names, there are no combat units in the structure.
The combat units stationed in the United States, not subordinate to the command of the ground forces, are part of the commands of the SSO, cybernetic and space.
The MTR command (Fort Bragg) has 7 MTR groups (1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 19, 20, the last two - in the National Guard), the 1 group of the MTR (Delta group, antiterrorist group) division), 75-th Ranger Regiment, 160-th Air Regiment MTR, 4 and 8-group of psychological operations, 95-th work with the civilian population and 528-th brigade training center, MTR training center.
The cyber command (Fort Belvoir, Virginia) includes the 1-I command information operations and the 780-I military intelligence brigade.
Space Command (Redstone, Alabama) has 1-th space (Peterson, Colorado) and 100-ABM brigade (Shriver, Colorado) as part of.
Ground forces outside the United States and in the two enclave states (Alaska and Hawaii) are part of two territorial commands and one PA.
The European command and the duplicating 7-I PA (Wiesbaden, Germany) have the 2 Cavalry Regiment - equivalent to the Stryker Brigade (Wilsek, Germany), the 173-th Airborne Brigade (Vicenza, Italy), the American Brigade of NATO (Zembach, Germany), 12 Brigade of Army Aviation (Ansbach, Germany), 10-th command of air defense (Kaiserslautern, Germany), 21-th command of the support (Kaiserslautern, includes 18 th engineering brigade, 16-th brigade of the guarantee, providing support, 18-th engineering brigade, providing 405-th engineering brigade, providing 409-th engineering brigade, providing 66-th engineering brigade, providing 2-th engineering brigade, providing 7-th engineering brigade, providing XNUMX-th engineering brigade, providing XNUMX-th engineering brigade, providing XNUMX-th Engineering Brigade XNUMX th brigade of military police, XNUMX and XNUMX th brigade of support), XNUMX th reconnaissance the team and XNUMX communications of the brigade, as well as the XNUMX-e joint multinational training command (Grafevor).
The Pacific Command (Fort Shefter, Hawaii) is responsible for the defense of the enclave states. The 25 Infantry Division (Scofield, Hawaii) has Stryker 1, 2 and 3 Infantry, 4 th Airborne, Army Aviation and 25 th Brigade. 1 and 4-I brigades are deployed in Alaska, 2, 3-I and aviation - in Hawaii. In addition, the Pacific Command is subject to the 94-i missile defense brigade (Fort-Shefter), the 8-i support command (Scofield, the 8-i brigade of the military police, the 10-i support group, the 130-i engineering brigade), the 311- e command communications (1-I and 516-I communication brigade), 196-I infantry and 500-I reconnaissance brigade.
8-I PA (Seoul) is not organizationally part of the Pacific Command, is responsible for the defense of the Republic of Korea. The 2 Infantry Division incorporates the 1 and the Stryker 2 Brigade (Fort Lewis, WA, as mentioned above, are administratively subordinate to the 7 AK Infantry Division), the Army Aviation Brigade (Camp Humphrey , Korea), 1-th artillery brigade (Camp Kosi, Korea), 210-th support brigade (Camp Carroll, Korea). The units of military subordination are the 2-i security command, 19-I air defense brigade, 35-I intelligence, 501-i communications, 1-I medical brigade.
The US Army has 4 territorial command, each of which is duplicated by the field army headquarters. These are Northern Command, 5-I PA (San Antonio, Texas, responsible for the defense of North America), Southern Command, 6-I PA (San Antonio, Texas, responsible for Latin America, except Mexico), Central Command, 3- I am PA (Shaw, South Carolina, responsible for the Middle East and Central Asia region), African Command, 9-I PA (Vicenza, Italy). In peacetime, all of them are purely headquarters structures that do not have parts in constant submission.
The National Guard is responsible for the defense of the territory of the United States, its units in peacetime are subject to state governors. In reality, since there is no one to defend the territory of the country, they are regularly involved in operations abroad. The National Guard ground forces include 8 infantry divisions, each of which is scattered in three to five adjacent states.
28-I infantry division (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland): 2-I infantry, 55-I heavy, 56-I Stryker, 28-I army brigade.
29 Infantry Division (Virginia, MD, North Carolina, Florida): 30-I armored, 53 and 116-I infantry, 29-I army brigade.
34 Infantry Division (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Idaho): 1-I armored, 2 and 32-I infantry, 116-I cavalry, 34-I army brigade.
35-I infantry division (Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Georgia, Arkansas): 33, 39, 48-I infantry, 35-I army brigade.
36 Infantry Division (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi): 45, 56, 72, 256-I infantry, 155-I armored, 36-I army brigade.
38 Infantry Division (Indiana, MI, Ohio): 37 and 76 Infantry, 38 I Brigade Army Aviation, 278 Armored Cavalry Regiment.
40-I Infantry Division (California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii): 29, 41, 79-I infantry, 81-I armored, 40-I army brigade.
42-I Infantry Division (New York, New Jersey, Vermont): 27, 50, 86-I infantry, 42-I army brigade.
Only a tank, in service with the US Army - M1 "Abrams". In the regular parts there are 2397 cars of the most modern modification M1A2 (of which 1814 are even more advanced M1A2SEP). Of the 3326 tanks of the previous version of the M1A1, most were transferred to storage. There is also the oldest version of the Abrams (with a 105-mm cannon, monolithic armor and outdated equipment) - up to 1281 M1 (possibly less, since some of the old tanks are disassembled for parts, some are converted into more modern versions and into engineering vehicles without weapons).
Currently, the main combat vehicle of the US Army - "Stryker", which was produced in 10 modifications. The total number of these machines reaches 4430. It is they who are equipped with the Stryker Brigade, they, as the American command believes, combine combat power (which is lacking in light connections) and mobility (it lacks heavy connections).
Despite the presence in the troops of a significant number of intelligence UAVs, considerable attention is still being paid to ground-based reconnaissance. In service are up to 1719 machines МХNUMX "Bradley" and 3 upgraded BRM of the same type M361A7 BFIST. The Stryker family includes from 3 to 545 BRM M577 itself, 1127 BMTV M131 (with 1128-mm gun), to 105 machines supporting M188, 1131 machines RHBZ M274. In addition, there are 1135 light BRM M465, 1200 М1593 and 1117 German Tpz-128 Fuchs.
BMPs are represented only by M2 “Bradley” machines in the amount of up to 4630 units. In total, the ground forces have a maximum of 6231 BMP M2 and BRM M3 "Bradley", of which 4559 is in the ranks, the rest are in storage.
The most numerous remains the BTR M113A2 / A3, of which 3727 units (another approximately 10 thousands in storage, are gradually being sold abroad). The Stryker family includes, up to 1972, the M1126 BTR itself, the 348 KSHM M1130, and the 168 light engineering M1132, 304 medical machines M1133. The troops have anti-guerrilla armored vehicles, built on the technology of MRAP (with enhanced mine protection). The vast majority of these machines do not have weapons, so they are in fact vehicles, not BBM. After the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the 5651 armored car Oshkosh and the 2934 MaxxPro (including the 301 medical vehicle) will remain in storage and in storage.
In the US military there is 975 ACS М109А6. Even before 728, the old M109А2 / 3 / 5 ACSs are in storage, where they are gradually being sold abroad or dismantled. The M109 ACS was adopted in 60, but six upgrades have passed, the M1096 variant is considered to meet modern requirements. Includes 821 towed implement M119A2, up to 362 M198, 518 M777A1 / 2. М777 come into service, М198 gradually written off. There are 990 mortars M252, 1076 M120 / M121 and 441 self-propelled M1129 "Stryker."
The 991 MLRS M270 / A1 MLRS and 375 lightweight versions of the same system M142 HIMARS (227 mm) are in service. All MLRS are also PU for OTP ATACMS.
There are 2032 self-propelled Tou ATGMs and several thousand portable Javelin ATGMs.
The basis of the army air defense make up the long-range air defense system "Patriot", which is equipped with all air defense brigades. The brigade includes battalions 2 – 4, each of which has 3 – 4 batteries for 6 – 8 PU (for 4 SAMs on each). Total 1106 PU ZRK "Patriot".
In addition to him, the only active means of ground defense is the Stinger MANPADS. The arsenal consists of several thousands of MANPADS proper, as well as the Avenger 703 short-range air defense system (4 Stinger MANPADS in a Hummer vehicle).
All US Army aircraft perform support functions. These are the 37 reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft RC-12, 9 of Canadian DER Dash-7 aircraft, as well as transport: 140 C-12, 28 UC-35, 11 SA-227 (aka C-26E), 2 Gulfstream, 2, 31 SA-3, 37 6, 27 SA-XNUMX; C-XNUMX, XNUMX C-XNUMX, XNUMX Italian C-XNUMXJ.
The basis of the strike power of army aviation is X-NUMX helicopters AN-769 Apache (64 D, 681 E, production continues). In addition, in storage 88 old combat helicopters AN-16S "Cobra".
Multi-purpose and reconnaissance helicopters can also be classified as combat: up to 525 OH-58 (up to 263 A, up to 157 C, 105 D, 229 D, 10 A, 6 C in storage), 39 MH-6M, and also 61 C in helicopter RE EH-60A and MTR helicopters: 62 MH-47G, 87 MH-60 (31 M, 35 L, 21 K).
Army aviation also includes 123 rescue helicopters HH-60 (32 L, 91 M), 157 training TH-67 and transport: 412 CH-47 (111 D, 301 F), 1534 UH-60 (674 , 599 M, still in storage 261 L), 19 EC290 (European model, manufactured under license under the name UH-145A), up to 72 UH-20.
US ground forces appear to be the only ones in the world with their own fleets. It includes 6 amphibious assault transports such as the Frank Besson and 118 amphibious assault boats of various types.
The new American military strategy practically does not imply the participation of ground forces in hostilities with the exception of the extremely unlikely event of a large-scale conflict. If necessary, the marines that are part of the Navy will fight on land (the level of combat training of its personnel is generally higher than in the ground forces). Upgrading ground forces equipment is proceeding at a rather slow pace, with the purchase of the Stryker BBM, the M777 howitzers, the Apache and UH-72A Lakota helicopters, as well as reconnaissance UAVs and various communications equipment, electronic warfare, etc. the strength of the ground forces remains very high, they are guaranteed to be superior in the foreseeable future to any army in the world except the Chinese and Russian.
But even despite the current "fatigue from wars" and the Pentagon budget cuts, the US Army retains enormous potential.
Their organization is very complex due to the number and spatial scope. There are headquarters field armies (PA), which, as a rule, duplicate the territorial command and must replace them in case of war. On the territory of the USA there are corps - army (AK) and airborne (VDK). But the main type of formations are divisions, each of which currently includes two or three line brigades and an army aviation brigade. The first are divided into heavy (armored), light (infantry, airborne) and Stryker (they can be considered average), equipped with the same combat vehicles.
The Ground Forces Command (headquarters in Fort Bragg, North Carolina) has one PA, two AKs, one VDK, two training centers, 32-e Air Defense Command and Reserve Command.
3-st AK (Fort Hood, Texas) includes most of the heavy compounds. The 1 Armored Division (Fort Bliss, Texas) has the Stryker 1, 2 and 3 heavy (armored), 212 artillery and army aviation brigades. 1 Cavalry (Armored) Division (Fort Hood): 1, 2, 3-I armored, 41-I artillery and army aviation brigades. 1-I Infantry Division (Fort-Riley, Kansas): 1, 2-I armored and army aviation brigade. 4 Infantry Division (Fort-Carson, Colorado): Stryker 1, Infantry 2, 3 Armored and Army Aviation Brigade. In addition, the 3-th AK has a number of corps subordination structures. These are the 3 Cavalry Regiment (equivalent to the Stryker Brigade), 75-I Artillery, 36-I Engineering, 89-I Military Police, 504-I Intelligence, 1, 4, 15, 43-I support brigade.
The 18 VDC (Fort Bragg) includes most of the mobile connections. The 3 Infantry Division (Fort Stewart, GA) has the 1 Armored, 2 Infantry, 3 Army Brigade. 10-I Light Infantry (Mountain) Division (Fort Drum, New York): 1, 2, 3-I infantry and army aviation brigades. 82 Airborne Division (Fort Bragg): 1, 2, 3-I and Army Aviation Brigade. 101-I Airborne Division (Fort Campbell, Kentucky): 1, 2, 3-i brigade, 101, 159-i brigade of army aviation. In addition, the 18-th VDK has a number of corps subordination structures. These are 20-th command of the RHBZ, 16-I military police, 18-I artillery, 20-I engineering, 525-I reconnaissance brigade, 108-I air defense (simultaneously subordinate to the above-mentioned 32 th air defense command), 44-I medical, XNX transport, 7 communication, 35, 3, 10, 82 communication brigade.
1-th AK (Fort Lewis-McCord, Washington) - a pool of reserve-training nature. The 7 Infantry Division (Fort Lewis) is not considered a combat unit, its headquarters is responsible only for combat training and logistical support of the attached units. These are the 1 and the Stryker 2 Brigade of the 2 Infantry Division, the 16-I Army Aviation, the 17-I Artillery, the 555-I Engineering and the 201-I reconnaissance brigades. In addition, as part of the 1-th AK there are 42-I military police and 62-I medical brigade as part of the 593-th security command.
The 1-I PA (Rock Island, Illinois) includes two training divisions. Vostok (Fort Knox, Kentucky) has 157, 158, 174, 188, 205 th infantry, 177 th armored, 4 th artillery brigades. Division West (Fort Hood, Texas): 72, 120, 181 and 189-I infantry, 191-I artillery, 402-I armored brigades. The ground forces reserve command (Fort Bragg) is primarily responsible for the logistics of the ground forces. It includes brigades: medical 5, aviation, support 10, engineering 9, military police 2.
In addition, the Ground Forces Command has two training centers - Fort Irwin and joint training. The 11 armored cavalry regiment (equivalent to the armored brigade), which serves as a conditional enemy for other units and formations, is deployed in Fort Irvine.
The highest-level commanders in the United States are also training (Fort-Eustis, Virginia) and MTO (Redstone, Alabama), their purpose is clear from the names, there are no combat units in the structure.
The combat units stationed in the United States, not subordinate to the command of the ground forces, are part of the commands of the SSO, cybernetic and space.The MTR command (Fort Bragg) has 7 MTR groups (1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 19, 20, the last two - in the National Guard), the 1 group of the MTR (Delta group, antiterrorist group) division), 75-th Ranger Regiment, 160-th Air Regiment MTR, 4 and 8-group of psychological operations, 95-th work with the civilian population and 528-th brigade training center, MTR training center.
The cyber command (Fort Belvoir, Virginia) includes the 1-I command information operations and the 780-I military intelligence brigade.
Space Command (Redstone, Alabama) has 1-th space (Peterson, Colorado) and 100-ABM brigade (Shriver, Colorado) as part of.
Ground forces outside the United States and in the two enclave states (Alaska and Hawaii) are part of two territorial commands and one PA.
The European command and the duplicating 7-I PA (Wiesbaden, Germany) have the 2 Cavalry Regiment - equivalent to the Stryker Brigade (Wilsek, Germany), the 173-th Airborne Brigade (Vicenza, Italy), the American Brigade of NATO (Zembach, Germany), 12 Brigade of Army Aviation (Ansbach, Germany), 10-th command of air defense (Kaiserslautern, Germany), 21-th command of the support (Kaiserslautern, includes 18 th engineering brigade, 16-th brigade of the guarantee, providing support, 18-th engineering brigade, providing 405-th engineering brigade, providing 409-th engineering brigade, providing 66-th engineering brigade, providing 2-th engineering brigade, providing 7-th engineering brigade, providing XNUMX-th engineering brigade, providing XNUMX-th engineering brigade, providing XNUMX-th Engineering Brigade XNUMX th brigade of military police, XNUMX and XNUMX th brigade of support), XNUMX th reconnaissance the team and XNUMX communications of the brigade, as well as the XNUMX-e joint multinational training command (Grafevor).
The Pacific Command (Fort Shefter, Hawaii) is responsible for the defense of the enclave states. The 25 Infantry Division (Scofield, Hawaii) has Stryker 1, 2 and 3 Infantry, 4 th Airborne, Army Aviation and 25 th Brigade. 1 and 4-I brigades are deployed in Alaska, 2, 3-I and aviation - in Hawaii. In addition, the Pacific Command is subject to the 94-i missile defense brigade (Fort-Shefter), the 8-i support command (Scofield, the 8-i brigade of the military police, the 10-i support group, the 130-i engineering brigade), the 311- e command communications (1-I and 516-I communication brigade), 196-I infantry and 500-I reconnaissance brigade.
8-I PA (Seoul) is not organizationally part of the Pacific Command, is responsible for the defense of the Republic of Korea. The 2 Infantry Division incorporates the 1 and the Stryker 2 Brigade (Fort Lewis, WA, as mentioned above, are administratively subordinate to the 7 AK Infantry Division), the Army Aviation Brigade (Camp Humphrey , Korea), 1-th artillery brigade (Camp Kosi, Korea), 210-th support brigade (Camp Carroll, Korea). The units of military subordination are the 2-i security command, 19-I air defense brigade, 35-I intelligence, 501-i communications, 1-I medical brigade.
The US Army has 4 territorial command, each of which is duplicated by the field army headquarters. These are Northern Command, 5-I PA (San Antonio, Texas, responsible for the defense of North America), Southern Command, 6-I PA (San Antonio, Texas, responsible for Latin America, except Mexico), Central Command, 3- I am PA (Shaw, South Carolina, responsible for the Middle East and Central Asia region), African Command, 9-I PA (Vicenza, Italy). In peacetime, all of them are purely headquarters structures that do not have parts in constant submission.
The National Guard is responsible for the defense of the territory of the United States, its units in peacetime are subject to state governors. In reality, since there is no one to defend the territory of the country, they are regularly involved in operations abroad. The National Guard ground forces include 8 infantry divisions, each of which is scattered in three to five adjacent states.
28-I infantry division (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland): 2-I infantry, 55-I heavy, 56-I Stryker, 28-I army brigade.
29 Infantry Division (Virginia, MD, North Carolina, Florida): 30-I armored, 53 and 116-I infantry, 29-I army brigade.
34 Infantry Division (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Idaho): 1-I armored, 2 and 32-I infantry, 116-I cavalry, 34-I army brigade.
35-I infantry division (Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Georgia, Arkansas): 33, 39, 48-I infantry, 35-I army brigade.
36 Infantry Division (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi): 45, 56, 72, 256-I infantry, 155-I armored, 36-I army brigade.
38 Infantry Division (Indiana, MI, Ohio): 37 and 76 Infantry, 38 I Brigade Army Aviation, 278 Armored Cavalry Regiment.
40-I Infantry Division (California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii): 29, 41, 79-I infantry, 81-I armored, 40-I army brigade.
42-I Infantry Division (New York, New Jersey, Vermont): 27, 50, 86-I infantry, 42-I army brigade.
Only a tank, in service with the US Army - M1 "Abrams". In the regular parts there are 2397 cars of the most modern modification M1A2 (of which 1814 are even more advanced M1A2SEP). Of the 3326 tanks of the previous version of the M1A1, most were transferred to storage. There is also the oldest version of the Abrams (with a 105-mm cannon, monolithic armor and outdated equipment) - up to 1281 M1 (possibly less, since some of the old tanks are disassembled for parts, some are converted into more modern versions and into engineering vehicles without weapons).
Currently, the main combat vehicle of the US Army - "Stryker", which was produced in 10 modifications. The total number of these machines reaches 4430. It is they who are equipped with the Stryker Brigade, they, as the American command believes, combine combat power (which is lacking in light connections) and mobility (it lacks heavy connections).
Despite the presence in the troops of a significant number of intelligence UAVs, considerable attention is still being paid to ground-based reconnaissance. In service are up to 1719 machines МХNUMX "Bradley" and 3 upgraded BRM of the same type M361A7 BFIST. The Stryker family includes from 3 to 545 BRM M577 itself, 1127 BMTV M131 (with 1128-mm gun), to 105 machines supporting M188, 1131 machines RHBZ M274. In addition, there are 1135 light BRM M465, 1200 М1593 and 1117 German Tpz-128 Fuchs.
BMPs are represented only by M2 “Bradley” machines in the amount of up to 4630 units. In total, the ground forces have a maximum of 6231 BMP M2 and BRM M3 "Bradley", of which 4559 is in the ranks, the rest are in storage.
The most numerous remains the BTR M113A2 / A3, of which 3727 units (another approximately 10 thousands in storage, are gradually being sold abroad). The Stryker family includes, up to 1972, the M1126 BTR itself, the 348 KSHM M1130, and the 168 light engineering M1132, 304 medical machines M1133. The troops have anti-guerrilla armored vehicles, built on the technology of MRAP (with enhanced mine protection). The vast majority of these machines do not have weapons, so they are in fact vehicles, not BBM. After the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the 5651 armored car Oshkosh and the 2934 MaxxPro (including the 301 medical vehicle) will remain in storage and in storage.
In the US military there is 975 ACS М109А6. Even before 728, the old M109А2 / 3 / 5 ACSs are in storage, where they are gradually being sold abroad or dismantled. The M109 ACS was adopted in 60, but six upgrades have passed, the M1096 variant is considered to meet modern requirements. Includes 821 towed implement M119A2, up to 362 M198, 518 M777A1 / 2. М777 come into service, М198 gradually written off. There are 990 mortars M252, 1076 M120 / M121 and 441 self-propelled M1129 "Stryker."
The 991 MLRS M270 / A1 MLRS and 375 lightweight versions of the same system M142 HIMARS (227 mm) are in service. All MLRS are also PU for OTP ATACMS.
There are 2032 self-propelled Tou ATGMs and several thousand portable Javelin ATGMs.
The basis of the army air defense make up the long-range air defense system "Patriot", which is equipped with all air defense brigades. The brigade includes battalions 2 – 4, each of which has 3 – 4 batteries for 6 – 8 PU (for 4 SAMs on each). Total 1106 PU ZRK "Patriot".
In addition to him, the only active means of ground defense is the Stinger MANPADS. The arsenal consists of several thousands of MANPADS proper, as well as the Avenger 703 short-range air defense system (4 Stinger MANPADS in a Hummer vehicle).
All US Army aircraft perform support functions. These are the 37 reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft RC-12, 9 of Canadian DER Dash-7 aircraft, as well as transport: 140 C-12, 28 UC-35, 11 SA-227 (aka C-26E), 2 Gulfstream, 2, 31 SA-3, 37 6, 27 SA-XNUMX; C-XNUMX, XNUMX C-XNUMX, XNUMX Italian C-XNUMXJ.
The basis of the strike power of army aviation is X-NUMX helicopters AN-769 Apache (64 D, 681 E, production continues). In addition, in storage 88 old combat helicopters AN-16S "Cobra".
Multi-purpose and reconnaissance helicopters can also be classified as combat: up to 525 OH-58 (up to 263 A, up to 157 C, 105 D, 229 D, 10 A, 6 C in storage), 39 MH-6M, and also 61 C in helicopter RE EH-60A and MTR helicopters: 62 MH-47G, 87 MH-60 (31 M, 35 L, 21 K).
Army aviation also includes 123 rescue helicopters HH-60 (32 L, 91 M), 157 training TH-67 and transport: 412 CH-47 (111 D, 301 F), 1534 UH-60 (674 , 599 M, still in storage 261 L), 19 EC290 (European model, manufactured under license under the name UH-145A), up to 72 UH-20.
US ground forces appear to be the only ones in the world with their own fleets. It includes 6 amphibious assault transports such as the Frank Besson and 118 amphibious assault boats of various types.
The new American military strategy practically does not imply the participation of ground forces in hostilities with the exception of the extremely unlikely event of a large-scale conflict. If necessary, the marines that are part of the Navy will fight on land (the level of combat training of its personnel is generally higher than in the ground forces). Upgrading ground forces equipment is proceeding at a rather slow pace, with the purchase of the Stryker BBM, the M777 howitzers, the Apache and UH-72A Lakota helicopters, as well as reconnaissance UAVs and various communications equipment, electronic warfare, etc. the strength of the ground forces remains very high, they are guaranteed to be superior in the foreseeable future to any army in the world except the Chinese and Russian.
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