(Land) GDLS / Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF)

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Army chooses five companies to design future armored combat vehicles with vetronics and machine autonomy

The OMFV is part of a future family of Army combat vehicles to add new capabilities to Army units and replace existing platforms that are getting old.

WARREN, Mich. – U.S. Army land warfare experts are choosing five defense contractors to design next-generation fast armored combat vehicles and vetronics architecture to replace the Army M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. [...] Contractors chosen to design competing OMFV versions are American Rheinmetall Vehicles LLC in Sterling Heights, Mich.; the BAE Systems Platforms & Services segment in Sterling Heights, Mich.; General Dynamics Land Systems in Sterling Heights, Mich.; Oshkosh Defense LLC in Oshkosh, Wis.; and Point Blank Enterprises Inc. in Miami Lakes, Fla. [...]

The OMFV is part of a future family of Army combat vehicles encapsulated in the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) program to design several armored vehicles and vetronics to add new capabilities to Army units and replace existing platforms that are nearing the end of their service lives.

The NGCV program contains the OMFV to replace the Bradley Fighting Vehicle; the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) to replace the M113 armored personnel carrier; the Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) light tank for Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCTs); the Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) of three unmanned ground vehicles in light, medium, and heavy configurations; and the Decisive Lethality Platform (DLP), the replacement for the M1 Abrams main battle tank.

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/sensor...e-autonomy

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