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QinetiQ’s Re-fashioned E-X-Drive Targets Army GCV

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By B.C. Kessner QinetiQ North America Monday said it has redesigned the E-X-Drive electric drive transmission from the canceled 24-ton Future Combat Systems (FCS) ground vehicle program and scaled it to a 50-ton "ideal solution" for the Army's new Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV). "We had about four years of development, and the U.S. government spent a lot of money on the original for the 24-ton," John Mackey, QinetiQ's technical manager for mounted systems, told Defense Daily on Monday at the…

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