Australian opens Land 400 Phase 3 tender
On 24 August the Australian government announced the formal opening of a multi-billion dollar request for tender (RfT) for the Land 400 Phase 3 project to obtain a Mounted Close Combat (MCC) capability for the Australian Army.
The army needs 450 IFVs and 17 Manoeuvre Support Vehicles to replace the M113AS4 APC family currently in service. A number of MCC variants are required. Direct fire high-survivability lift variants include traditional IFV, C2, joint fires and engineer reconnaissance vehicles. Specialist support IFVs include ambulance, repair, recovery and combat engineer variants.
Release of the formal tender had been delayed, with the Department
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