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BAE Systems Provides Most Extensive Details To Date On Offering For Army’s OMFV Competition

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

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BAE Systems Provides Most Extensive Details To Date On Offering For Army’s OMFV Competition

BAE Systems' design for the Army's Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle competition. Photo: BAE Systems.

BAE Systems on Wednesday offered its most extensive insight to date on its proposal for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) competition, detailing its 50-ton, hybrid-electric offering, which it says is designed to maximize modularity and features a new Elbit Systems of America-supplied turret. Jim Miller, BAE Systems’ vice president of business development, told reporters the Army’s iterative design approach with industry has been a key enabler for the Bradley replacement program and cited the company’s decision to go…

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