Four musketeers to cross swords in Land 400 IFV tender
Bids for the Australian Army’s Project Land 400 Phase 3 competition, which will see 450 IFVs enter service, closed on 1 March 2019. As expected, four tracked contenders are believed to have entered the fray: the BAE Systems CV90, General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) Ajax, Hanwha Defense AS21 Redback and Rheinmetall KF41 Lynx.
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