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1. M2A4 Bradley Fighting Vehicle
M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Jumpseats = 6 Short Bench seats = 7
33 tons! = 2 per C-17 2-man turret ring hogs up too much
space, smothers dismount infantry
Replace with 25-40mm pedestal or 1-man autocannon/ATGM; space freed
to carry full 9-man rifle squad: 25 tons = 3 per C-17 = more combat power,
enables troops in back to open top troop hatch and fight heads-out
behind gunshields ACAV-style
Long Bench seats = 9+ Soldiers

2. 13,000 x M113A3 Gavin light tracked armored
fighting vehicles (TAFVs) in U.S. Army service
today
M113A3 Gavins lead
way into Bosnia
FM 7-7
Goes U.S. Army Europe Immediate Reaction
anywhere! Force uses C-130 airlanded M113A3s

3. Baseline NLMB M113 Gavin Proven
in combat; on duty today all over the
world by free world armies...
Lebanon
Panama
East Timor
Vietnam
Iraq

4. NLMB Tracked Armor Protects Soldiers from enemy
myriad threats in order to accomplish the mission
Tracks not stopped by fires

5. NLMB tracked mobility delivers Sappers
rapidly/safely to clear large open areas; can push
aside, crush large vehicle-emplaced obstacles
without time-consuming hand reduction (dozer
blade and bump guards can be fitted)

6. Current Light Airborne Combat Engineers DO
MICLIC on
M200 tracked NOT HAVE A WAY TO SAFELY FIRE THEIR
trailer
MICLIC/EMSC “Mongoose” mine clearing
charges!
Armored M113A3 Gavin ESVs can
tow, then fire rocket line charges
for Airborne Light Mechanized
HMMWV trucks Sappers!
MICLIC
Dump trucks
FMTV trucks
Sappers on foot =
No in-stride
breach capability!
M113 Gavin ESV with MICLIC in Desert Storm combat!

7. NLMB tracks off-road capable for bold, cross-
country movement to avoid enemy SSC
observation/fires, ambushes, secure/clear key
terrain and encircle enemies
YES!
NO!
Tow cable to tracked
vehicle to pull LAV out
of mud

8. NLMB with bread &
Butter M113A3
Amphigavin
amphibious mobility
capability can cross
rivers/lakes at will
NLMB maneuver forces
cannot wait on near
bank for a crossing
under enemy SSC fires!
We must forge ahead
and secure the far
ground! NLMB is not
tied to bridges and
roads like wheeled
vehicle units

9. Fences/Walls are good: as Van Crevald proves: keep
hateful out--but don‘t let them sap underneath them!
In 4GW, wars are not primarily
IDF Security Fence fought for Clausewitz-style
nation-state “continuation of
policies by other means”
but simply because humans
hate each other. Then as God
shows us in the Bible,
sometimes all you can do is
keep a generation away and
“cool off” until a new
generation weaned off
IDF M113 Gavin violence can take charge.
Walls are a good way to
discourage the majority of
belligerents to seek a “life”.
NLMB has engineer earth-moving,
digging and liquid demolitions in
trailers to detect and collapse any
sapping/tunneling attempts

10. Threat #1: Roadside bombs/command-detonated land mines
If we drove
Actual Iraqi Highway to Fallujah tracked
If we drove vehicles
tracked vehicles
on UN-predictable
? on predictable
road shoulders
routes far off main enemy would
paved roads
enemy would be ? set large
bombs in
hard-pressed to ground
mine the much
larger area but it
would mean
slower
movement/arrival
times. If impatient
Americans can
handle this many
lives would be
saved. Troops
MUST insure a new
route is taken
each time to Problem is civilian contractor and military
prevent a “path” resupply vehicles are WHEELED and must
from being set for travel on paved roads like the tractor-trailers
enemy bombers. shown here
NLMB uses Mistake!
XM1108 tracked Convoys should drive in road centers to NO!
resupply vehicles stay as far away from edges where
for this XM1108 YES

11. Without continuous fixed-wing manned aircraft
surveillance overhead and constant ground sweeps of the
roads/shoulders of Main Supply Routes (MSRs), enemy is
? free to place road bombs at will….150+ KIA so far, 3,000
wounded
Enemy has many places along paved roads to “sap”
(dig) underneath the edges and hide explosives or lay
bombs in trash on road edges and detonate when U.S.
Convoy passes

12. Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) have not worked to provide
comprehensive and effective air surveillance over Iraq Main
Supply Routes (MSRs)
YES!
NLMB has
NO! $3.8 million
$1.6 million
UAVs easily manned U-27
UAVs don’t see well and shot down Caravans
through remote TV screens 24/7/365
fail to spot elusive bad guys air cover
for RMA firepower targeting that sees &
lack self-survival investigates
instinct of manned and can shoot
observation to get enemy
craft to reveal
2 x U-27s Human eyesight
for the price of selves
+
just one Sensors + scouting
Predator!