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MILITARY VEHICLE NEWS

April 7, 2017 by

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06 Apr 17. US Air Force Develops New, Deployable, Energy Systems.
Today’s expeditionary military forces require steady, reliable energy sources to power worldwide missions.
Diverse field environments and a move towards cost-effective, resilient and agile energy supplies are driving a new look at the way the Defense Department powers a mission — and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Advanced Power Technology Office leads the innovation from the front.
The APTO forward operating base of the future project plays a critical role in changing the way forward deployed forces will power missions in the future. The on-going project hopes to meet the Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s 2035 vision to create a totally deployable, self-sustaining power system. Progress over the past year has been enormous, resulting in new cross-service collaborations, successful equipment demonstrations and more.
“We learned a lot over the past year,” said Air Force 1st Lt. Jason Goins, project engineer. “We demonstrated feasibility and where to go next in terms of making complete microgrid systems. Pieces of individual equipment have been demonstrated separately, and by combining them into a microgrid we learned how well they worked synergistically.”
Mobile Energy Storage, Management System
Housed in a 10-foot-long trailer, a mobile, hybrid energy storage and management system able to supply renewable energy power for forward operating bases is the latest addition to the APTO-led effort to meet the long-term energy needs of military forces. Batteries and a microgrid command, control and communication software package can act as a power source, better able to supply on-site, mobile energy for expeditionary forces.
“We are taking what we learned and applying it to a rapidly deployable system,” Goins said. “We are looking at something that will be set up and deployed in an hour. If you can power a shelter in 30 minutes with affordable solar and wind, that’s spectacular.”
In addition to providing a reliable, steady source of power, the team is exploring solar panels that can be shot by a bullet and still remain operational.
The team is also working with industry to create a lightweight wind power package. This would employ a ground-based system with a bladed turbine that can be cranked up into the air to generate wind power.
The trailer’s open software system and architecture has played a critical role in enabling cross-service collaboration with the Army. The Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center is performing joint testing and development of the mobile energy management system trailer. The results will be used to develop tactical microgrid standards.
In the coming months and years, the team plans to continue its partnership with the Army and look at ways they can collaborate on developing standard policies and equipment for microgrids — be alert for opportunities to leverage industry advancements in alternative power technology. (Source: US DoD)

06 Apr 17. Brazil FMS upgrades roll on. Mistaken reports of the arrival of the first upgraded M109A5+ self-propelled howitzer to the Brazilian Army have been rebuffed by manufacturer BAE Systems.
The company has stated that the first unit will arrive in 2018 and that the delivery of the M109 seen by the vehicle spotters was in fact a gun for display at LAAD 2017. Marc Collins, VP for international market creation in the Americas and Iberia at BAE Systems, told Shephard that the company was already working on the M109A5 excess defence article vehicles in the US to meet the deadline next year.
The Foreign Military Sales agreement between Brazil and the US Army for 40 M109s was signed in 2015 but the contract for $54m between the US Army and BAE

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