Force Protection Europe awarded £180 million contract for LPPV
The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £180 million contract with Force Protection Europe (FPE) to supply 200 Light Protected Patrol Vehicles (LPPVs) to finally replace the much-maligned Snatch Land Rover fleet.
FPE’s 4x4 ‘Ocelot’ vehicle, which beat Supacat and NP Aerospace’s SPV400 to preferred bidder status in September, will be renamed as ‘Foxhound’ by the MoD. Specifically developed to protect against improvised explosive device (IED) threats in Afghanistan as part of an urgent operational requirement (UOR), Foxhound is expected to be available to troops for training in 2011, the MoD claimed.
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