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Army Approves JLTV For Full-Rate Production

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, June 21st, 2019

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Army Approves JLTV For Full-Rate Production

Oshkosh JLTV at the Bushmaster Users Conference in Arizona in Jan. sporting a Kongsberg remote weapon station and 30 mm cannon. (Oshkosh photo)

The Army has approved moving the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle into full-rate production after a series of program delays and a proposal to slow down the planned vehicle buy over the next five years. The Oshkosh [OSK]-built JLTV is built to provide the Army with a lighter mine-resistant vehicle with increased firepower capacity, but officials have cited the vehicle as a potentially lower priority for future fights against competitors such as Russia or China. Bruce Jette, the service’s top acquisition…

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