Jay Clemens
BAE Systems plans to team up with Patria to bid for Australia’s potential $9.28 billion armored fighting vehicle program, Defense News reported Sunday.
Nigel Pittaway writes Boeing Defense Australia and Iveco-Oto Melara also plan to forge a partnership to participate in the Land 400 initiative.
Australia wants to procure military-off-the-shelf combat reconnaissance vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles and maneuver support vehicles in order to start work to replace old systems in 2015, according to the report.
BAE and Patria will offer the Patria eight-wheel-drive armored modular vehicle for the program and the Boeing-Iveco-Oto Melara team plans to submit the latter firm’s Centauro fighting vehicle, the report says.
Defense News reports the Australian government is set to issue the first pass approval in 2015 for the program that would run between 30 and 40 years.
