I got this from Jonathan. Thanks dude. This is amazing. This is nonsense. This makes no sense! Read it and weep, your tax dollars at work. More MRAPs when we don't know what to do with the ones we already have.
Navistar Defense, LLC today announced that it received a delivery order for 250 International® MaxxPro® Recovery vehicles from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command. The $253 million order was placed under the company’s Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity contract and includes contractor logistics support. This is Navistar’s eighth major MRAP variant.
Navistar originally unveiled the MaxxPro Recovery vehicle, also known as a wrecker variant, in February 2009 as a new utility vehicle offering.
I guess because there is still no decision on the JLTV "zombie", no decision to switch to V-hull Humvees and MGV in definite limbo, there is really no short-term solution for the kind of (wheeled) vehicle the marines need to replace the battered Humvee fleet. M-ATV is in-service and a good off-the-shelf option, but it's not in the support (wrecker) variant available.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, Afghanistan is still far from over...
Seeing how this is a 'specialized' recovery variant it sort of makes sense. Also keeps the Navistar factory rolling for the immediate future, although i'm sure the unions had nothing to do with that...
ReplyDeleteMarcase, do you think JTLV for the Marines is dead? I keep seeing artiles about the next-gen Hummer is good enough? Any chance that the FP British Ocelot will make a break through to US shores?
ReplyDeleteThe SysComs always seem to love buying from BIG companies?
What is the make of recovery crane on the rear
ReplyDeleteHi Sol, long time since we've talked. Well, you should take into consideration that the US Army MRAP's in Afghanistan are being loaned to other forces there, not so properly suited for A-stan challenges. Recently, the Ro Army benefited from such a donation valid for their time there.
ReplyDeleteThis "buy" is more about keepin the ones we use working, than any real purchase of "more."
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