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Old 3rd Apr 2016, 10:09
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melmothtw
 
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Leon:
Oh FFS, the LEMV was not cancelled solely due to monetary constraints:
No one said it was Leon:

Myself:
save for the money and technical issues
and
The US Army obviously didn't agree with your "absolute disaster' appraisal of the HAV's chances in Afghanistan. It was only budgetary and technical issues that prevented its deployment, not operational ones.
Don't be making up arguments that no one's making for you to refute, FFS. The point is, that the budgetary and technical reasons for its not being deployed do not mean that there were necessarily operational reasons also.

It was cancelled by the US military because it had already cost a fortune and was delievring about a 1/7th of the promised capability.
You are, of course, referring to the Northrop Grumman LEMV system and not the HAV vehicle which is the subject of this thread.

Saying the HAV is useless because the LEMV programme was flawed is no different to saying that the BAC Comet was useless because of the Nimrod AEW3 programme.

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