via UPI.
BOLZANO, Italy, July 23 (UPI) -- Italy's Iveco Defense Vehicles plans a comprehensive display of products next month at the Defense and Security Equipment International exhibition in London.Uh wow.
The military vehicles Iveco will display will showcase company engineering capabilities in taking existing platforms and transforming them to meet evolving requirements, the company said.
Among the vehicles:
-- SUPERAV, an amphibious 8x8 to support littoral operations.
-- The Medium Protected Vehicle Ambulance, which comes from the company's MPV family of vehicles for route clearance, casualty treatment, communications and command and control. The vehicle is a 4x4 designed to provide medical staff with the opportunity to provide life-saving treatment well forward in the battle area.
-- A CBRN reconnaissance and survey vehicle for detecting and assessing various chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents.
The company's protected Enhanced Pallet Loading System Demonstrator and a bridge-launching vehicle designed for the Swiss army will also be on display as well as a protected fuel tanker.
The vehicles will be on static display at the trade show Sept. 10-13.
The Italian Marines will soon have a winner on its hands.
The purchase of the SUPERAV has not yet received funding, so perhaps not so soon as they'd like, unfortunately. However, the plan remains to try and get it, definitely.
ReplyDeleteThe MPV instead is jointly produced with the Germans, who mainly focus on the 6x6 variant. The MPV is expected to eventually become a "i do everything" vehicle, with a huge variety of variants already planned. The Italian army hopes to buy thousands, in the years ahead, to progressively replace a huge variety of second line and support vehicles. A very small number of ambulances has already been ordered, and the MPV also serves as the base for Italy's own Route Clearance package, with C2ISTAR command vehicle with sensor mast, ground-penetrating radar carrier, route-clearing vehicle with Buffalo-style rummaging arm and finally the true route clearer, which pushes a CALIFE 3 roller.
Oh, by the way. I think my latest article, on naval artillery and NGS, could interest you, if you haven't seen that yet. Hope you don't mind the link: http://ukarmedforcescommentary.blogspot.it/2013/07/a-new-golden-era-for-naval-guns.html
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