DSA12: Malaysian AV8 continues to progress
Thales has revealed that it has completed the factory acceptance test for the open vehicle electronic architecture system that it is providing for the Malaysian AV8 armoured vehicle.
Thales was selected to provide the suite last year, and now that the test was passed 'last week', the company is 'ready to take it into the vehicle', Jean-Francois Lopez, AV8 project director at Thales told Shephard at the DSA 2012 exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 16 April.
'We are working closely with the army,' Lopez explained. 'We are offering one database with all services available, and users can exchange information
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