User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: Trucks World News: MILITARY TRUCKS * USA
Google
 
Loading

Jan 13, 2012

MILITARY TRUCKS * USA

* DC - Ford Takes On Lockheed for $54 Billion in Blast-Proof Vehicles

Washington,DC,USA -Bloomberg, by Roxana Tiron and Brendan McGarry/Larry Liebert/John Walcott -January 13, 2012: -- Ford Motor Co. is leading a push by commercial-truck makers to challenge defense contractors for a potential $54 billion in work replacing U.S. military Humvees with blast-proof all-terrain vehicles... The Army and Marine Corps plan to open competition Jan. 20 in the second development phase for their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. Truck manufacturers Ford, Navistar International Corp. and Oshkosh Corp. may take on teams led by defense companies General Dynamics Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and BAE Systems Plc that won the three first-stage contracts...  The Army and Marine Corps together plan to buy about 55,500 new vehicles to replace some of about 175,000 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles built by AM General LLC. The Humvees proved to be vulnerable to inexpensive improvised explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan... The new light truck is intended to weigh about 20,000 pounds (9,072 kilograms) fully loaded and offer protection comparable to that of the MRAP, which can weigh 30,000 to 50,000 pounds, too heavy for many roads and bridges in Afghanistan, or to travel off-road. Empty, the new vehicle would be light enough to be carried by CH-47 Chinook and CH-53 Super Stallion helicopters and on ship decks...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 4:56 PM 

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home