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Supacat To Deliver Special Operations Vehicles-Commando To Australia

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

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The U.K.’s Supacat Aug. 19 said Australia’s Defense Material Organization (DMO) awarded it a $97.7 million contract to deliver 89 Special Operations Vehicles-Commando (SOV-Cdo) for the Australian Defense Forces under the JP2097 Ph 1B (REDFIN) program. The new SOV-Cdo are based on the latest MK2 version of Supacat’s HMT Extenda and designed to meet Australian Special Force’s specific requirements. The contract follows the successful completion of the Prototype Development and Evaluation phase in which Supacat built and delivered the prototype…

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