Canadian Army receives first TAPVs for training
The first four pre-production Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicles (TAPVs) for the Canadian Army have been shipped to locations in the US and Canada for testing and training.
Textron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS) announced on 7 August that the company had delivered the first pre-production vehicle (PPV) to the US Army’s Aberdeen Test Centre in Maryland for qualification testing, which is expected to take five months.
Also in July, a second PPV has been sent to the Rheinmetall Canada facility in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. According to TM&LS, this vehicle has completed three sets of tests including land communication information systems training
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