Impact of CR and BDAR on maintenance

Combat resilience (CR) and battlefield damage assessment and repair (BDAR) are concepts which would provide NATO forces with increasing battlefield availability to counteract the numerical superiority of Warsaw Pack forces. However, live-firing trails have demonstrated that NATO weapons are not designed for rapid battlefield repair. Current maintenance systems must be reorganized and substantially expanded to cope with additional workload and sustain the forces on the battlefield. Battlefield maintenance operations are described by which combat weapons can be designed with greater combat resilience, and which, when damaged, could be quickly repaired at the first echelon and returned to battle in time to influence the outcome