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Preliminary Info: U.S. Army helicopter unit changes in Army 2030?
🕑 Added 2023-11-27 05:06:12 +0000 UTCI recently noticed a comment talking about changes to U.S. Army aviation under Army 2030. Aviation is probably the least publicly talked about part of Army 2030, and I don't have enough confirmed info to make a public post/video about it, but here is the preliminary info.
On Transport Helicopters:
1. The current General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB) is being rebranded as an Assault Helicopter Battalion and both the current GSAB and AHB will be restructured.
2. Both AHB types will have 2x Assault Helicopter Companies (10x UH-60M or Future Vertical Lift in the future) and 1x Cargo Helicopter Company (8x CH-47 instead of current 12x). In the GSAB, this will be accomplished by converting the command aviation company (8x UH-60) into an AHC and probably transferring assets from the current AHBs that have 3x AHCs. There will also be a type with a MEDEVAC Company with HH-60s. This was a concern because MEDEVAC is a key capability in the GSAB and it was uncertain what they were doing with it
3. Light/Airborne/Air Assault Divisions will have 1x AHB with MEDEVAC and 1x AHB without MEDEVAC. Heavy Divisions will have 1x AHB with MEDEVAC
4. Air Assault Divisions will also have a Heavy Assault Helicopter Battalion with 32x CH-47.
5. That makes 40x UH-60s/16x CH-47s in Light/Airborne Divisions, 40x UH-60s/48x CH-47s in the Air Assault Division, and 20x UH-60s/8x CH-47s in Heavy Divisions. Each division will also have an air ambulance company, which I don't know the numbers for, but the current organization has 15x HH-60s.
On Attack Recon Helicopters:
The Air Cavalry Squadron would go from 3x identical Air Cav Troops (8x AH-64 and 4x RQ-7 each) to 2x helicopter troops with 10x AH-64s each and 1x UAS troop with 8x RQ-7. This is actually a reduction in the divisional air cav squadron. I don't know if this will be accompanied by a restructure of the Attack Battalion (currently 24x AH-64s) but if that unit doesn't change, this is actually a slight reduction in attack aviation within the division (about a platoon fewer helicopters)
