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By on May 29, 2015 at 2:08 PM
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A very competing to build just got a big lift from a heavy hitter. “This levels the playing field,” president Shane Sterling told me of his firm’s new alliance with . “We as a company now have the industrial might behind us to produce our product.”
That might comes from Michigan-based , which started out building firetrucks but during the post-9/11 wars, working mainly on vehicles. The MRAPs could survive most roadside bombs but proved too heavy and awkward to maneuver offroad. The Army and Marines want to replace them with a nimbler but still well-protected , weighing in at a relatively modest 14,000 lbs. But the Army has also decided it needs something much lighter to with the Airborne: a 4,500-lb Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle, an unarmored nine-man transport, and a modestly better-armored Light Reconnaissance Vehicle.
Vyper Adamas has built small numbers of innovative vehicles for special operations customers they decline to name. In the competition to build the ULCV and LRV for the so-called Big Army, however, they were dwarfed by competitors like and Boeing. It turns out they had a plan for that problem all along: marry their design team to Spartan’s manufacturing power.
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“It says a lot about our product and reputation to have a company like Spartan behind us,” Sterling told me. “They have won in the past five years for innovation and their ability to produce products on time.”
“As a smaller company, we are extremely nimble, with the ability to design, develop, and now implement, on an extremely large scale, the numbers of vehicles that might be asked of us,” Sterling said. “ recently alluded to the fact that to bid and compete on contacts. Well, Vyper is that company.”
I hear my parking Space Calling again....
By on May 28, 2015 at 5:05 PM
Gen.Ray Odierno
WASHINGTON: “In the next two years,” Army chief of staff said today, the service could move out on four new combat vehicles and reboot its aging inventory for . They range from for Airborne soldiers to a scout car, , and a new infantry fighting vehicle to carry heavy troops into .
These projects are more incremental than revolutionary, more modest than ambitious, but they’re a step beyond the the Army is currently procuring. They don’t attempt to transform the Army like the cancelled or the Reagan buildup’s famed “” — but they might just be the Feasible Four.
The biggest challenge is the IFV, sometimes also called the Future Fighting Vehicle. This machine would replace the Cold War mainstay of the armored force, the M2 Bradley, which FCS and the programs both failed to do....
