Land Warfare
UK MoD awards General Dynamics SV contract
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has finally signed a contract with General Dynamics UK (GDUK) to deliver the £500 million demonstration phase of the British Army’s Specialist Vehicle (SV) programme.
The decision ends weeks of speculation as to whether SV, a reinvention of Future Rapid Effect System (FRES), would ...
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