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Army To Begin Six-Month Soldier Assessment With Mobile Protected Firepower Prototypes In January

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, December 11th, 2020

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Army To Begin Six-Month Soldier Assessment With Mobile Protected Firepower Prototypes In January

BAE Systems' Mobile Protected Firepower offering

The Army’s first Mobile Protected Firepower prototypes have started arriving to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where soldiers will begin an assessment in January to help inform the decision on selecting one of the two light tank offerings. The Soldier Vehicle Assessment (SVA) will extend through June 2021 and include running both BAE Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems’ [GD] MPF offerings through a range of operational scenarios. “The MPF brings a new level of lethality…

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Space

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