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1. Urban Warfare: Myth versus Reality
PAST TODAY
In 1968, 3 NVA regiments and 2 VC “Senior tank officers denied that the
battalions (12,000 enemy troops) increasing urbanization seriously
seized Hue, a city of 140,000 people. hampers the use of armor.”
In 26 days of non-stop fighting, "Today, most of the successes in the
marines lost only 147 KIA while the territories are due to the tanks there,"
enemy lost 5,113 dead. said a senior tank officer…. “When tanks
Why? Devastating tank and artillery fire do open fire, their rounds are more lethal
spearheaded attacks plus constant air than those of attack helicopters.”
support and the disciplined
employment of small groups of Officers and Soldiers alike say that the
marines. minute a tank appears on any scene, the
shooting stops and the gunmen flee.
"They are afraid," said a senior tank
officer. "Not only that, but when our
soldiers see a tank they feel more
assured."
FUTURE: Substitute Technology for “The Army Banks On Its Tanks” by
Manpower: Robotics, armed UAVs, Arieh O'Sullivan, Jerusalem Post, August
non-line-of sight systems, nano 15, 2001, page 1.
technology, etc.…

2. Urban Warfare: Future Options
 AUTONOMOUS URBAN FLYING ORDNANCE
SAPPER TANKS with mechanical advantage gaining devices
 DISPERSED/ UBIQUITOUS MICRO MULTI-SPECTRAL SENSOR SUITE
(USG--”Unattended Ground Sensors”)
 ROBOTICS (saves lives, enhances affordability, redefines risk/ threat
environment, enhances effectiveness)
 Much more reactive than humans, greatly
 Greatly improved hyperspectral sensors/data fusion
 Greatly improved accuracy and lethality
 Greatly improved affordability/miniaturization
 Redefines “risk,” minimal casualties
 Greatly reduced logistics
As these new capabilities enter the force, how do we
exploit them within a new joint framework for dispersed
mobile warfare in urban and complex terrain?

3. MOUT VERTICAL
ASSAULT VEHICLE
Stealthy Hybrid-
Electric M113A4 Boom arm delivers
used to transport infantry to
rifle squad over unexpected spot on
rubble, debris buildings
Combat-proven mobility
with RPG resistant
applique armor
www.geocities.com/armysappersforward/sappertanks.htm

4. Can we continue to assault
urban structures using
predictable top-down or
bottom-up tactics?
Helicopter
rooftop
assaults
exposes them
to enemy fires
Slow Ladder
assaults date
back to ancient
“Stacking” teams at Infantry exposed to
times!
ground-level enemy fires!!!!!

5. We must see, the enemy must not...
Infantry
situationally
aware,
ready-to-
MOUT Vertical Assault fight
vehicle and helicopters vertically
must lay smokescreens
to mask vertical assaults
Leaders with digital
displays to see “big
picture”, navigate

6. Leader Situational awareness, head-out from MOUT vertical assault
vehicle’s 1-man turret or cupola
Starstreak HyperVelocity Missile + 20-40mm autocannon or
120mm mortar turret = anti-air, anti-tank, anti-bunker and anti-
personnel lethality
www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/starstreak.html

8. U.S. ARMY EUROPEAN COMMAND
“TRANSFORMS” ITSELF TO C-130 AIR-
DEPLOYABILITY IMMEDIATELY WITH
EXISTING M113A3 GAVIN TRACKED
AFVs, January 2000
"The Army is a learning,
thinking, adaptable
organization,"
General John M. Keane
U.S. Army Vice Chief of
Staff
www.hqusareur.army.mil/htmlinks/
www.geocities.com/equipmentshop/m113a3setaf.htm

9. M113A3/4s can be heli-transported by CH-47Ds
101st Airborne (Air
Assault) Division
Maximizing tracked vehicle
weight/volume efficiency, Army
CH-47D/F Chinook helicopters
can air-transport M113A3/4s
over mines, obstacles, avoiding
road ambushes as the British
Army did with its Scimitar light
tanks to be the first NATO force
into Kosovo in 1999. Can be
flown to cities to cut them off... British Army Air-Mech into
Kosovo
FACILITATES 3D TACTICAL BATTLE MANEUVERS!

10. M113A3/4 Tracked Mobility to
advance in the face of enemy fire,
maneuver in rubbled urban areas...
Tracks
overcome
fire and
obstacles...
LAV-III’s
Rubber-tired
Wheels
vulnerable!
“Run-flats” at 5mph for 5
miles no life insurance in
combat

11. TRACKED VEHICLES ARE FAR
MORE 2D CROSS-COUNTRY
Tracks pull MOBILE THAN WHEELED
wheels out ARMORED CARS TO AVOID
from the ROAD-SIDE AMBUSHES, MINES,
mud…save OBSTACLES!
them from road
ambush...
Tracks swim, fight, move
by land, sea or air!

12. The 21st Century
Environment
• Urbanization • Increased Access to
• Ethnic & Religious Technology
Conflict • Increased U.S. Reliance on
• Asymmetric Conflict Force Projection
• Simultaneous SASO • Reduced Warning Time
Operations • Joint, Combined, Multi-
• Weapons Agency Operations
Proliferation/WMD • Force Protection an
Imperative
U.S. Army Forces Must Be…
U.S. Army Forces Must Be…
Responsive --Deployable --Mobile --Versatile --Combat
Responsive Deployable Mobile Versatile Combat
Effective
Effective

13. Missions of the Urban Combat
Team
• Rapidly Air Deploy Under a Division or Corps HQ as Part of a Joint Force as
the spearhead for MOUT operations
• Prevent, Contain or Stabilize Crises Through Presence and precise Military
Operations in Urban Terrain
• Determine Favorable Outcome of urban Small Scale Contingencies (SSCs)
• Act as the urban Combat Force Guarantor in Security and Support
Operations (SASO) as Part of a U.S. or Multinational Force
• Participate, with Augmentation, in Major Theater Wars (MTWs) insuring
urban areas do not hinder decisive maneuver

14. THE U.S. ARMY ALREADY
HAS THOUSANDS OF 11-TON
M113A3-type TRACKED AFVs
IN SERVICE/STORAGE TO BE
VERTICAL ASSAULT
VEHICLES TO FORM MOUT
COMBAT TEAMS! THAT ARE:
C-130 AIR-TRANSPORTABLE
COMBAT-PROVEN UNDER ALL CONDITIONS!
*Vietnam
*Panama
*Entebbe
*East Timor
*U.S. Army Europe IRF

15. U.S. ARMY 11-TON M113A3 /4
TRACKED AFVs ARE
ALREADY
TESTED/CERTIFIED:
82d Airborne C-130 PARACHUTE AIR-
Division DROPPABLE
to get to urban fights...
FACILITATES 3D BATTLEFIELD MANEUVERS!