Just bringing it home for my tracking and review from the SPA/SPAA Thread so this might not be new to you!!
From the USA PEO GCS office the AMPV is to start a 52 month (~4.3yrs.) Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) process by BAE the contract winner. The EMD once completed will turnover
29 vehicles the Army for evaluation. This process should take about 2-3yrs. based on my tracking of these events as in reality we're dealing with a known, though moderately improved platform. Best guess tracking to somewhere out to
2022/2023. The ref. is dated 24 Dec. 2014. Very much falls in line with what Mark just posted as also one of my sources as you know and the others I'm holding in my APC folder.
http://www.peogcs.army.mil/news/ampv...arded-bae.html
http://www.peogcs.army.mil/ampv.html (Covers models to be built on the bottom of 1st para.)
The home office...
http://www.peogcs.army.mil/index.html
ALSO...since we're at it...
The USMC will see their operational capability with the
ACV 1.1 in 2020. This will prove a very hot competition between BAE and SAIC (
TERREX 2 8x8) which are both fielding known fully amphibious platforms. It reports had given SAIC an early edge as the TERREX, first seen as a 6x6 platform was the first successful 360 situational awareness APC developed to include an RWS to operate in the same manner.
TERREX 1 as it's now referred to was originally developed by TIMOTHY Industries of Ireland. And thought they just made good Beer and Whiskey!?! TERREX (1) was one of my first posts in the APC Thread where I'll re-post this to.
http://news.usni.org/2015/11/24/mari...stems-and-saic
I feel like I'm slowly coming back. I hear some of you already!?!
(Used not for it's normal meaning!
)
Need I say it-yeah, with an addition-
CONTINUING TO TRACK.
Two for one not bad Don.
Regards,
Pat
