The Australian Department of Defence is maintaining its effort to improve mobility, protection and safety for the Australian Army and RAAF.
By 2024, the department will receive 3,751 vehicles under the Land 121 Phase 3B/5B programme. It declared IOC for Phase 3B on 11 February.
A defence spokesperson said that these vehicles are being delivered to full-time and reserve units of the army and RAAF. 'This will ensure that each unit will have a Medium Heavy Protected Mobility capability to support logistics, engineering and artillery land operations,' the spokesperson told Shephard.
Australia will also acquire 4,730 modules and 2,565
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The Polaris Government and Defense’s Military RZR (MRZR) Alpha 1KW was displayed at the Modern Day Marine exposition in the US earlier this year and with the Alakran mobile mortar weapon system at DSEI. The company outlined recent firing trials with the Alakran mobile mortar weapon system (MMWS) which was weeks after the company announced a major NATO deal.
The vehicles are based on the latest version of the BvS10 All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) and include variants for troop transport, logistics, medical evacuation, recovery, and command and control. An unarmoured version is being delivered to the US and offered to Canada.
Thales launched Storm-H in 2012 as an EW system equipping individual dismounted troops, and a decade later revealed details to develop the improved and more powerful Storm 2.
Drones and military ground vehicles are increasingly being designed to operate together as a single platform or even to convert crewed systems to automated ones.
The acquisition, which is part of the country’s broader defence package worth DKK58 billion (US$9.2 billion), goes against the grain with many other European countries opting for the US’s popular Patriot platform.
The UK’s Land Mobility Programme (LMP) seems set to be delayed once again but industry is jockeying for position to partner in what would be one of the biggest ever buys for the British Army.
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