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General Dynamics UK Successful In Mating Demo Turret And Scout Recon Platform

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, August 5th, 2011

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The first version of the Reconnaissance Variant of the Specialist Vehicle project is taking shape, as General Dynamics UK [UK] successfully joined the Experimental Demonstration Unit (EDU) turret to a base platform, further proving the design, company officials said. A little over a year ago, GDUK signed the Specialist Vehicle (SV) contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD). The EDU turret mating to a “mule” base platform on the first attempt informs the first test version of the reconnaissance…

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