The Army's 82nd Airborne Division will drop about 10 All Terrain Vehicles from the air as part of a pilot program to give paratroopers more mobility when they hit the ground.
The U.S. Army's 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division will jump into Poland next month in a test of their ability to bolster NATO's eastern flank in a hurry. It will also be a test of the ability of their new all-terrain vehicles to get them quickly out of the drop zone.
The troops will be dropping with about 10 of their MRZR all-terrain vehicles made by Minnesota-based Polaris Defense. (MRZR is not an acronym but simply a designator, said a Polaris spokeswoman.)
The four-seat MRZRs were still a “pilot program” for the 82nd but were intended to give the paratroopers more mobility once they hit the ground. “It’s a little more robust” than commercial ATVs, Tuley said.
“These vehicles significantly enhance what would otherwise be foot mobility,” Brig. Gen. Brian Winski, deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne, told Bloomberg News. “They change the dynamic and turn what would have been a three-mile per hour operation into a 50-mile per hour operation.”..For More on this Story From Military.com GO HERE
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