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BAE Systems Positioned To Deliver M113 Replacements Quickly

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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

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By B.C Kessner Recent years of internal funding and Army-coordinated development has positioned BAE Systems to deliver production representative variants of M113 replacement vehicles ready for immediate testing, company executives said. "If the Army said it wanted to pursue a conversion approach of systems already in production, we could quickly give them common vehicle platforms to go immediately into tests," Rick Burtnett, Bradley Derivatives program manager at BAE, told Defense Daily yesterday. "These would not be prototypes; these are production…

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