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Rheinmetall Partners With Textron To Offer Lynx Vehicle For Army’s New OMFV Competition

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020

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Rheinmetall Partners With Textron To Offer Lynx Vehicle For Army’s New OMFV Competition

The Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicle (Photo: Rheinmetall Defence)

Germany’s Rheinmetall is once again looking to compete for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program, announcing a new partnership on Tuesday with Textron Systems [TXT] to propose the Lynx KF41 platform. “Team Lynx” also includes Raytheon [RTN], who partnered with Rheinmetall for its previous proposal during the Army’s first attempt at OMFV but which ultimately resulted in a disqualification after it was unable to meet a deadline for delivering a bid sample. “This teaming agreement brings together two of…

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