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Old 14th Jul 2020, 12:15
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There’s a bit more to the story. The MRV-P (Multi Role Vehicle - Protected) contract has been awarded to Oshkosh for 700+ highly survivable JLTVs, with the potential for more - MoD just need to clear the Business Case. Boxer has also been ordered. What the Army is doing is rationalising all of the various UOR buys and their complex (read expensive....) support arrangements. We forget that UORs are inevitably compromises, and biased towards the ‘T’ in ‘TCP’. They are also (unsurprisingly) optimised to the Campaign they are purchased to support, so may be poorly configured for more general use or long term supportability and upgrade.
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