Warrior CSP gets additional test vehicle but trials pushed back
The UK’s Warrior IFV capability sustainment programme (CSP) will use an extra twelfth vehicle for demonstrations.
A spokesperson from Lockheed Martin told Shephard that a recent contract change ‘pulled forward an additional 510 [infantry support vehicle] from production to demonstration to add flexibility to the trials programme and de-risk future planned activities.’
The original contract was for 11 pre-production vehicles plus unit zero.
‘There will now be 12 pre-production vehicles and they will start to be built in October 2015 and will be built at a rate of two a month from then on. The range trials are expected to
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