AUSA 2012: BAE Systems highlights hybrid GCV progress
BAE Systems used the venue of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2012 annual meeting to highlight continuing progress on its Hybrid Electric Drive Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV).
According to Mark Signorelli, vice president and general manager for Vehicle Systems at BAE Systems Land and Armaments, the decision to employ HED on the BAE Systems GCV received a great deal of initial attention – ‘both good and bad’ – as well as ‘a lot of questions about the maturity of our offering and the readiness potentially of the army to accept what a lot of folks believe is
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