DSEI 2015: BAE launches flexible ATV
A new model of the BVS10 all-terrain vehicle (ATV) named the Beowulf has been displayed by BAE Systems at the DSEI exhibition.
The Beowulf appears to be offered as a more cost-effective base variant of the BvS10 that can be pushed in military and civil markets.
Tore Asker, from BAE Hagglunds announced that the Beowulf model is designed to ‘close the spec between the Bv206, BvS206 and the milspec BvS10.’
He said that the vehicle will have the capability of the amphibious BvS10 but with a higher payload capacity and a flexible build standard that allows more variations of the
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