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Oshkosh Truck Corporation [NYSE:OSK] received a $30.6 million
contract award from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command, to
deliver 100 Mine Resistant Ambush
Protected (MRAP) vehicle program within four months. The
vehicles are categorized as "Category I" intended
for urban operations and referred to as the Mine Resistant Utility
Vehicle (MRUV).
The vehicle proposed by Oshkosh Truck is the Alpha, designed
by Protected Vehicles, Inc. (PVI) of North Charleston, South
Carolina. Oshkosh and PVI have forged a relationship in the
past year to pursue business opportunities related to armored
vehicles. PVI will produce the armored hulls, outfitted with
their advanced armor technology, while Oshkosh will provide
the production capability and engineering expertise to provide
completed vehicles with the performance, reliability, and quality
standards to meet tactical operations requirements. Oshkosh
and PVI are also cooperating on a parallel MRAP contract, teaming
with Israeli armor specialist, RAFAEL, for the production of
MRAP Category II variant, called Golan.
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is a 13 ton 4x4 vehicle designed to be an economical path to
superior blast and ballistic protection for the US Military.
When coupled with PVI’s ShieldAll
armoring solution (developed under cooperation with Battelle)
the vehicle exceeds highly desired protection levels with minimal
impact to payload and performance capabilities. Standalone,
ShieldAll has multi-hit protection capability against 7.62AP
threats at one-third the weight of armored steel. Alpha has
can accomodate eight occupants. It has a v-shaped hull and is
designed to meet or exceed all ballistic and mine protection
capabilities specified under the MRAP requirement. The vehicle
is also fully air-transportable, making it simpler to re-deploy
once in theater.
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