US Army lays out AMPV progression after delay
Low-rate initial production Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles are now not expected to enter operational service with the US Army until 2023 at the earliest after operational testing was ‘pushed to the right’.
Delays to the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) programme mean that testing and production activities will stretch into 2022.
AMPV is one of four programmes in the Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) effort to modernise the US Army combat vehicle fleet over the next few years.
Speaking at the AUSA Global conference on 16 March, BG Richard Coffman, director of the NGCV Cross-Functional Team, said that operational testing has been ‘pushed to the right’.
He added that Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) of the first LRIP vehicles would not start until January 2022.
IOT&E was originally planned for August 2021
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