Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle

For the German vehicle, see Armoured Multi-Purpose Vehicle.
Soldiers from 4th Squadron (Dark Horse), 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, complete field testing of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle at Fort Hood, Texas, circa 2018

The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) is a U.S. Army program to replace the M113 armored personnel carrier and family of vehicles.[1] AMPV is a sub-project of the Next Generation Combat Vehicle program.

In 2014, the U.S. Army selected BAE Systems' proposal of a turretless variant of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle to replace over 2,800 M113s in service.[2]

As of 2013, five variants of the 2,907 AMPV are planned:

  • M1283 general purpose (522 planned)
  • M1284 medical evacuation vehicle (790 planned)
  • M1285 medical treatment vehicle (216 planned)
  • M1286 mission command (993 planned)
  • M1287 mortar carrier vehicle (386 planned)[3]

As of 2015 the program evolved to the following numbers (according to the GAO Program Performance of the fiscal year 2015 for the AMPV program[4])

The first AMPV prototype was rolled out in December 2016,[5] and the first production vehicles began rolling out in September 2020.[6]

In March 2023, the U.S. Army delivered the first AMPVs to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia.[7]

As of 5 August 2023, the AMPV had entered full-rate initial production.[8]

  1. ^ Freedberg Jr, Sydney J. (29 May 2012). "Army Mulls $1.7 Billion Effort To Replace 3,000 M113s". Breaking Defense. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023.
  2. ^ McLeary, Paul (24 December 2014). "Army Awards AMPV to BAE Systems, Future Fights Loom". Defense News. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  3. ^ Freedberg Jr, Sydney J. (22 March 2013). "Army Issues RFP For $6 Billion M113 Replacement: Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle Program". Breaking Defense. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023.
  4. ^ "GAO-15-342SP defense acquisitions Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs" (PDF). U.S. Government Accountability Office. March 2015. p. 67. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 August 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  5. ^ Judson, Jen (15 December 2016). "BAE Systems Presents First AMPV Prototype to US Army". Defense News. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  6. ^ Cox, Matthew (2 September 2020). "Army Set to Receive First Armored Vehicles to Replace Vietnam-Era M113". military.com. Archived from the original on 16 March 2023.
  7. ^ Judson, Jen (14 March 2023). "First unit gets new Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles replacing old M113s". Defense News. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  8. ^ Jones, Colton (5 August 2023). "US Army's new armored vehicle enters full-rate production". Defence Blog. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023.