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Le Terrex-2 proposé par SAIC vu arrière :

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il est marquant de voir combien l'intérieur du compartiment est en V tellement la base de la coque est effilée.  Ça doit rendre plus compliqué l'adaptation du véhicule sur de nombreuses fonctions.

Ainsi, un missile devra être rangé à l'horizontal alors qu'à la vertical ce serait moins encombrant. Et ainsi de suite.

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De jolies lignes :

Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.1

(Source: BAE Systems; issued Sept 23, 2015)

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It’s designed from the ground up to fulfill the complex mission of deploying Marines from ship to shore to objective. 

Our Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.1 (ACV 1.1) is a no-compromise 8x8 platform offering a unique mix of true open-ocean amphibious capability, land mobility, survivability, payload and growth potential to accommodate evolving operational needs. 

BAE Systems and IVECO Defence have joined forces to present a fully amphibious ACV 1.1 vehicle capable of performing open-ocean ship launch and recovery operations. 

It also delivers the inherent internal capacity for 13 embarked Marines plus a crew of three thus meeting the objective requirement for payload. Its unique automotive drivetrain offers superior land mobility across all expeditionary environments while affording MRAP level survivability through its integrated armor design. 

ACV 1.1 is fully employable across the Range of Military Operations and complements the expeditionary capabilities of the Marine Air Ground Task Force’s Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) fleet. 

-ends-

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Récapitulatif des candidats à ce jour :

L'ACV de BAE/Iveco :

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On peut de demander si l'Italie ne bénéficiera pas des améliorations des SuperAV qu'elle doit acheter.

Le Terrex-2 de SAIC/ST :

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À savoir que SAIC conduit actuellement une modernisation des AAV-7 (nouveaux sièges anti-mines...)

Et l'ACV de General Dynamique qui reste bien discret :

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C'est un châssis Piranha.

le dernier venu, l'ACV de Lockheed Martin :

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Pour la forme de carène, hormis BAE, les solutions sont en effet étonnantes.

Il est évident qu'ils ont fait des tests mais là....

Apres, je serais curieux de voir la différence de vitesse avec l'AAV7.

En tout cas, avec cette forme de l'avant, ça va être compliqué de naviguer capots ouverts comme avec les  AAV-7

Pourquoi serait-ce compliqué ? C'est prévu pour.

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Pourquoi serait-ce compliqué ? C'est prévu pour.

A mon sens, avec cette forme de nez, à la moindre vaguelette c'est submergé, nonobstant le pare-vagues.  C'est ce qui m'a semble au vu des quelques vidéos...

Après, c'est pas forcement mortel , suffit de naviguer capots fermés  

Quand on regarde l' AAV-7 a un avant en "pointe"  et il semble aussi plus haut sur l'eau 

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A mon sens, avec cette forme de nez, à la moindre vaguelette c'est submergé, nonobstant le pare-vagues.  C'est ce qui m'a semble au vu des quelques vidéos...

Après, c'est pas forcement mortel , suffit de naviguer capots fermés  

Quand on regarde l' AAV-7 a un avant en "pointe"  et il semble aussi plus haut sur l'eau 

Après tout c'est probablement même un avantage que d'être bas sur l'haut. Dans l'éventualité d'une débarquement sur une plage un tant sois peu contesté, tout sera fermé de toutes façon et autant être une petite cible et que l'eau vienne participer au blindage. Il y a des chances que le tourelleau 12.7 serve de périscope dans ces circonstances d'ailleurs.

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Récapitulatif des candidats à ce jour :

L'ACV de BAE/Iveco :

CPrWfBuUcAAwT26.jpg

On peut de demander si l'Italie ne bénéficiera pas des améliorations des SuperAV qu'elle doit acheter.

Le Terrex-2 de SAIC/ST :

sacacv.jpg

À savoir que SAIC conduit actuellement une modernisation des AAV-7 (nouveaux sièges anti-mines...)

Et l'ACV de General Dynamique qui reste bien discret :

CPhoo1DUcAAqaxO.jpg

C'est un châssis Piranha.

le dernier venu, l'ACV de Lockheed Martin :

IMG_7767.jpg

C'est moi ou ils se ressemblent tous ? :blink:

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Après tout c'est probablement même un avantage que d'être bas sur l'haut. Dans l'éventualité d'une débarquement sur une plage un tant sois peu contesté, tout sera fermé de toutes façon et autant être une petite cible et que l'eau vienne participer au blindage. Il y a des chances que le tourelleau 12.7 serve de périscope dans ces circonstances d'ailleurs.

Sais pas.  Je remarque que les US Marines (les autres utilisateurs aussi) naviguent toujours panneaux ouverts ; ceux-ci sont fermés au moment d'aborder la plage. L'évacuation, pb technique ou autre, se fait toujours* par le haut (garder la flottabilité) Par conséquent, ce n'est pas un "petit problème" que la plage (toit) soit couverte par la houle, par ce que trop bas sur l'eau.... 

* Ils s’entraînent aussi à sortir en cas de retournement dans l'eau; je suppose qu'ils utilisent aussi les écoutilles... 

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Ils naviguent volets ouverts pour l'équipage seulement et quand il fait beau. Sinon, à la première houle, tout reste fermé.

Un AAV qui se retourne ne peut pas rester sur le dos. Il reviendra obligatoirement à sa position normale.

 

C'est moi ou ils se ressemblent tous ? :blink:

Disons que vouloir un 8x8 qui navigue (il ne de contente pas de flotter.) avec 3+13 hommes, cela oriente pas mal la forme de la caisse.

Mais mal grès cela, ils sont assez différents. L'ACV de BAE/Iveco ne ressemble pas trop à celui de Lockheed. 

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Ils naviguent volets ouverts pour l'équipage seulement et quand il fait beau. Sinon, à la première houle, tout reste fermé.

Un AAV qui se retourne ne peut pas rester sur le dos. Il reviendra obligatoirement à sa position normale.

Disons que vouloir un 8x8 qui navigue (il ne de contente pas de flotter.) avec 3+13 hommes, cela oriente pas mal la forme de la caisse.

Mais mal grès cela, ils sont assez différents. L'ACV de BAE/Iveco ne ressemble pas trop à celui de Lockheed. 

Le chef est souvent dehors, même avec de la houle. Je pense qu'il y a une fonction / problématique  "alignement"  et "navigation"  ;  garder le cap sur un amer sur une distance de plusieurs nautiques, au travers d'un épiscope au ras de l'eau ...

Quand à revenir à la position normale, l'USMC ne semble pas partager ton optimisme.... 

 

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En entraînement, c'est un peu le minimum pour une unité amphibie.

Chavirer n'est possible que s'il y a une voie d'eau. Le centre de gravité est bas avec le train de roulement. Comme il est plutôt cylindrique, l'AAV va revenir à sa position.

Petite démonstration :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeBMxhQUKpc#

C'est la même chose pour les bateaux de course. Sauf que leur forme les stabilise une fois retourné. Piégé dans la coque, il y a alors à actionner des ballastes pour le redresser. Et encore, avec les matures, c'est pas simple.

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C'est difficile de voir sur cette séquence. On voit bien que l'engin se fait rouler par la houle  (je ne suis pas sur qu'il fasse un 180 ou un 360) pour être sur qu'il est auto redressable il faudrait voir un essai en eau calme...

Pour les voiliers, ça va dépendre de beaucoup de paramètres, la carène liquide (des fois embarquer de l'eau aide à se redresser :unsure: ) la forme de la coque, le volume du roof,  la quille (quillard, dériveur lesté,  dériveur...) et aussi se faire bouger par les vagues, une vague t'envoie au tapis, la suivante te redresse...

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Surtout qu'avec un voilier, ton mat devient une quille. Et là, t'es mal.

Pour les AAV, ce sont des cylindres. Pose un leste dans un cylindre, il reviendra toujours à la même position.

Enfin, ces moyens sont prévus pour un état de la mer donné. L'ACV-1.1 ayant moins de contrainte que l'AAV.

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On commence a avoir d'autre information que sur l'esthétisme :

Marine ACV Competitors Show Off Prototypes as Program Downselect Nears

By: Megan Eckstein
September 28, 2015 11:54 AM

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO — The Marine Corps is nearing a downselect from five to two competitors in its Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.1 program in mid-November, after years of work on the ACV and its Marine Personnel Carrier predecessor.

The wheeled vehicle will carry a crew of three and at least 11 embarked Marines, have the robust swim capability of the legacy Amphibious Assault Vehicle, and protect against roadside bombs and other threats while driving on land.

After a few failed tries to replace the AAV, the Marine Corps settled on its current strategy – to get an ACV 1.1 increment out quickly, based on proven designs; to upgrade to an ACV 1.2 next, with the ability to launch and recover from amphibious ships and with the addition of mission-specific variants; and finally to make a decision on moving to a high water speed ACV 2.0 in the 2025 timeframe, pending the outcome of research and development efforts over the next decade.

Manny Pacheco, spokesman for the Marines’ Program Executive Office for Land Systems, told USNI News at the annual Modern Day Marine expo that ACV 1.1 is on track for a milestone B decision to move into engineering and manufacturing development in mid-November. Each of the two EMD contract winners would deliver 16 prototype vehicles within nine or 10 months, and the Marines would spend 24 to 30 months testing those vehicles and soliciting feedback from Marines involved in the testing to begin developing tactics, techniques and procedures for that specific design.

“Part of the reason why we’re getting 16 vehicles from each manufacturer is to be able to maximize the testing in the shortest amount of time that we can,” Pacheco said.
“But we’re going to do everything – we’ll be doing blast testing probably at Aberdeen, we’ll be doing water probably off the coast of California at [Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch], we’ll probably do a variety of testing out at Yuma or White Sands Missile Range for a variety of things. So it’ll be ongoing, and there will be a lot of it.”

A decision to move into low-rate initial production is expected in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2018, with the program reaching initial operational capability (IOC) at the end of 2020 and the ACV 1.1 acquisition program ending in 2023, Pacheco said.

As the five competitors await a decision, four of them showed off their prototypes at Modern Day Marine – with four different approaches to force protection, balancing water and land mobility and setting the Marine Corps on the right path to transition to ACV 1.2.

BAE Systems

Personnel capacity: 3 crew, plus 13 embarked Marines
Speed: greater than 65 mph on land; 6 knots in water
Optimized range: 10 nautical miles at sea, followed by 290 miles on land
Power: 690 horsepower engine
Reserve buoyancy: 21 percent

BAE Systems partnered with Italian defense contractor Iveco, which had already outfitted Italian Marines with the SuperAV personnel carrier. Though the U.S. Marine Corps will operate ACVs and legacy AAVs side-by-side for some amount of time, the Italians selected Iveco’s design as an AAV replacement.

“The Italian requirement was to, quote unquote, replace the AAV. And that made perfect sense to us, because as we read the Marine Corps requirement for 1.1 we were like, well wait, this is only a half step away from being an AAV replacement,” ACV program manager John Swift told reporters at Modern Day Marine.
“So we may as well ensure our design can meet all the AAV requirements, except to go well beyond the survivability requirement of the current AAV or even the upgraded AAV,” he said, referring to an ongoing AAV survivability upgrade effort.

Swift said the BAE Systems offering includes Iveco’s proven H-Drive System that provides power to individual wheels – allowing the vehicle to continue operating if a blast damaged any wheels, and allowing the wheeled vehicle to simulate a tracked vehicle for better mobility in soft soil or sand. The H-Drive System has no axels, allowing the vehicle to have a V-shaped hull for blast protection, Swift added.

For added force protection, the floor that the Marines stand on inside the vehicle is not actually connected to the hull. Rather, it bolts onto the bottom of the seats, creating somewhat less headroom when walking in and out of the vehicle but protecting the Marines’ feet from absorbing any energy from a blast below the vehicle.

Key to BAE Systems’ bid is that the vehicle has already been proven to meet not only the 1.1 requirements but also most of the 1.2 requirements. ACV 1.2 is expected to include seats for 13, not 11, embarked Marines, so BAE Systems already has its vehicle configured for 13 seats. ACV 1.2 will have to launch and recover from the well deck of an amphibious ship, and the Italians are already doing this with the SuperAV. And ACV 1.2 will create mission-specific variants of the vehicle, such as a turreted ACV – and the Italians have already integrated an unmanned 30mm turret onto some of their vehicles.

For Swift, the combination of the Italians’ success with SuperAV, plus BAE Systems having served as the original equipment manufacturer for all the Marines’ amphibious vehicles since 1939, creates a path to success not only in ACV 1.1 but 1.2 and beyond.

Lockheed Martin

Personnel capacity: 3 crew, plus 11 embarked Marines (capability to increase to 13)
Speed: greater than 60 mph on land, 5 knots in water
Power: 711-horsepower Caterpillar C13 engine
Reserve buoyancy: 25 percent

Lockheed Martin’s ACV entrant is touted as a simple design that focuses on off-road missions while ensuring a robust swim capability for years to come.

Frank Bohlmann, director of ground vehicle weapon systems, told USNI News that the company has worked on the ACV and MPC programs for a combined eight years now and rolled all the user feedback received during that time into the current design.

“So everything from the large tires up through the double-wishbone suspension, which is a very similar suspension from what we’ve used before, very good offload, lots of clearance between the tires and the vehicle – the Marine Corps spends the bulk of their time off-road so we’ve designed the vehicle for that.”

ACV program manager Patrick Shepherd said that the Marines intend to operate the vehicles on roads 20 percent of the time and off-road 80 percent, so Lockheed Martin focused on off-road mobility and survivability. The frame can adjust its height to ride low to the ground for greater speed on paved roads or higher up for a smoother ride off-road, he said. And the tires can flatten when operating in an urban environment to avoid ripping up the local infrastructure.

Similar to the BAE Systems offering, Havoc has a raised interior floor that does not attach to the bottom of the vehicle for additional blast protection while operating on land.

For water operations, Lockheed Martin has added reserve buoyancy packs to the outside of the vehicle, giving 25 percent reserve buoyancy – which is more than the Marines required. Combined with a 711-horsepower Caterpillar C13 engine – the largest of the four competitors – and user-friendly independent thrusters in the water, the company is offering “plenty of power, plenty of reserve buoyancy, and we’ve got a suspension that can handle up to 25-percent weight growth, so we think we’ve got a very very capable vehicle” with plenty of room to accommodate future modifications, Bohlmann said.

In addition to room for future growth, Shepherd said another key feature is simplicity.

“To keep it relevant, we’ve actually kept it very simple. A lot of companies will make a very integrated digital display, touch screens – we’ve kind of gone to the other end where all the smarts is behind the scenes,” he said.
“The driver’s station is very simple, the maintenance is very simple, looking to make it so it’s just like you would work on a normal car. It drives like a normal car in land and water. We’re trying to keep it as simple as we can to keep from having high-maintenance requirements.”

SAIC

Personnel capacity: 3 crew, plus 11 embarked Marines
Speed: 7 knots at sea
Power: 600-horsepower Caterpillar C9.3 engine
Reserve buoyancy: 23 percent

In contrast to the user-friendly simplicity Lockheed Martin aims for, SAIC designed its TERREX 2 vehicle to enhance operators’ situational awareness. The troop commander’s seat is back with the embarked Marines, and the commander’s station is equipped with a screen displaying day/night images from a front, rear, left and right camera outside the vehicle. The 11 embarked Marines can all see the troop commander’s screen, giving them an idea of what to expect when they exit the vehicle.

Additionally, the driver’s station features an array of screens – some of them redundant, in case one is damaged – with obstacle avoidance features, situational awareness sensor feeds and more.

SAIC and its partner ST Kinetics chose to emphasize ground operations, where the ACV will spend the bulk of its time, whereas other competitors highlighted their entrants’ launch and recovery and other sea-based capabilities, senior director Bernie Ellis told USNI News.

“It’s going to spend anywhere from two to five percent of its time in the water, so you have to design it to meet the minimum requirements in terms of safely operating in the sea,” Ellis said.
“There’s objective and threshold, so in terms of competition, you want to be as close to objective … as you can. But the majority of what you want to do is optimize and shoot towards land mobility, if you spend 98 percent of your time on the land. Having great water mobility for two percent of the time is not good. So land mobility is a primary driver. Force protection, that’s a big driver. Reliability is a big driver.”

Ellis said the vehicle has a V-over-V hull, which creates a crush zone to reduce the impact of a blast on the floor. Marines would put their feet on footrests attached to the seat across the aisle from them to keep their feet from absorbing any energy from an under-belly blast. This design – compared to the BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin design where the floor the troops walk on isn’t actually connected to the bottom of the vehicle and wouldn’t absorb any blast energy – means the troops cannot keep their feet on the ground during transit but also creates a more spacious interior while the Marines are entering and exiting and arranging their supplies.

General Dynamics.

The General Dynamics prototype features a roomy interior, much like the SAIC vehicle, with a lower floor to create more room and footrests to keep the Marines from blast energy.

Unlike SAIC, however, “we put a lot of emphasis on the water mobility aspect, so we have a lot of reserve buoyancy, a lot of growth for the Marines in the future,” ACV 1.1 program director Scott Stilson told USNI News. Compared to SAIC and BAE Systems’ hydraulic propulsion systems for the vehicle’s swim mode, General Dynamics went with a mechanical system – “so no hydraulics, no hydraulic leaks, and we’re very efficient at transferring energy back to the propellers.”

With a 600 horsepower engine, double-V hull design used on other ground vehicles and speeds at least equal to the legacy AAV, the General Dynamics ACV is “focused on performance, protection and payload,” Stilson said.

“I think the real distinguishing feature is really the balanced design. Being able to do everything really well, and the energy that it takes to come up with that design, to me that’s actually what separates us,” he said, attributing that success to both General Dynamics’ robust systems engineering teams as well as an eagerness to incorporate user feedback throughout all the MPC and ACV testing periods.

The company conducted extensive trade studies to find the right balance between weight, protection and performance; water and land capabilities; and other tradeoffs.

“This isn’t what GD wanted necessarily, we listened to the Marine and tried to incorporate that also into the trade studies so they have a vehicle that meets their needs,” he said.

The fifth competitor, Advanced Defense Vehicle Systems, did not bring its vehicle to Modern Day Marine.

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