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Designing the Integrated Force: How to Define and Meet the Challenge?

A second example and one that involves working with the Innovation Hub involves the development of
autonomous vehicles and how these vehicles should inform “our future requirements.”

The LAND 400 project is seeing the replacement of the venerable M-113 with a new vehicle. According to the
Ministry of Defence:

LAND 400 – will acquire and support the next generation of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV) with the
firepower, protection and mobility to defeat increasingly lethal and adaptive adversaries well into the future.

LAND 400 will deliver enhanced levels of survivability to the Joint Land Force including sensors, weapons and
information systems, which will be, networked to strategic intelligence platforms.
At its foundation, the project will deliver replacements for the Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) and
M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) fleets.

The project will also provide specialist Manoeuvre Support Vehicles (MSV) to properly enable Army’s combat
brigades to undertake joint land combat.
LAND 400 has four discrete phases:

• LAND 400 Phase 1 – Project Definition Study (completed).
• LAND 400 Phase 2 – Mounted Combat Reconnaissance Capability, primarily enabled by the Combat
Reconnaissance Vehicle (CRV) mission system (the ASLAV replacement)
• LAND 400 Phase 3 – Mounted Close Combat Capability, primarily enabled by the Infantry Fighting
Vehicle (IFV) (the M113 APC replacement) and MSV mission systems.
• LAND 400 Phase 4 – Integrated Training System
http://www.defence.gov.au/dmo/EquippingDefence/Land400

Second Line of Defense

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