On February 27, 2025, Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, in Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The 56th Stryker Brigade fighting team receives hundreds of improved strykers and mutual tactical vehicles as part of a modernization. (Brad Rhen/Pennsylvania National Guard)
The 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Pennsylvania has received more than 600 improved or new vehicles, about half of which are Strykers and half of mutually light tactical vehicles are, according to a press release from Pennsylvania National Guard.
The 324 improved Strykers that the 56th SBCT should receive a “double V” hull, in contrast to the brigade, the brigade, the release says. The JLTVs replace the Humvees of the Brigade.
Commander the 56th SBCT chief Christopher Costello said that the change in the Stryker weaknesses reflected, which was shown in Legacy design in Iraq and Afghanistan, namely that the upgraded fuselage distracts the explosive strength of soldiers in the vehicle.
“Soldiers often went away from IED attacks on double V fuselage vehicles or quickly returned to service.
He also said that the JLTVs have several upgrades and fewer restrictions in Humvees. JLTVs were developed to replace Humvees, although they were also criticized for reliability and maintenance problems.
Almost a fifth of the vehicles, 90 JLTVs and 25 Strykers, arrived on Wednesday, said Brad Rhen, deputy officer Affairs Officer of the National Guard Pennsylvania. The Strykers and JLTVs are likely to be led to the Fort Indiantown GAP area, said Rhen via e -mail, and from there some are distributed to other units.
The vehicles arrive as part of a plan to modernize the 56th SBCT, one of four brigades in the 28th Infantry Division and one of the nine Stryker brigades of the US Army. It counts about 4,400 soldiers and has its headquarters in the Biddle Air National Guard Base in Horsham, PA.
Several hundred of the brigade soldiers are stationed in Africa and Germany.
A cross-mobility multipurpose wheel vehicle, which is generally known as Humvee, rests on the left next to its successor, a common light-tactical vehicle, on the common basis Langley-Eustis, Virginia, May 2, 2017. (Teresa J. Cleveland/Us Air Force)