Not A land Rover - but keeping jobs in OZ though

"Light Protected"
what sort of incoming is it designed for?

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from Wiki,,
Key criteria for the project included: off-road mobility, integrated vehicle electronic architecture, substantial payloads, high levels of protection against land mines, improvised explosive devices and ballistic weapons while being light enough to be air transported by military helicopters. The three options considered as part of the project were:

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Originally Posted by EastFreo

Very happy to see an Australian company win the work. I was reading about these today in The Oz. sound awesome. Go well for 7 tonnes!

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Thales is a French arms and security conglomerate. I doubt that there's much Australian ownership, just the jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_Australia

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Originally Posted by Ausfree

Saw it on the news tonight. It is good that we can design and build vehicles in Australia.Pity this expertise could not be extended to the everyday vehicle for the public.

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The bodies are from Israel,the motors from Austria,the gearbox from Germany and the diffs from the USA,but they are assembled here so made in Australia :angel:. Pat

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Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

They do look better than the Hummer.
I wonder what power plant they will be running and where it was sourced.?

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Steyr engine from Austria. Pat

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Originally Posted by PAT303

The bodies are from Israel,the motors from Austria,the gearbox from Germany and the diffs from the USA,but they are assembled here so made in Australia :angel:. Pat

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Sounds like a Holden Commodore!!!:)

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Originally Posted by LandyAndy

And lets hope they look into selling them to other armies!!!!!!
No more ford/holden/toyota/mitsa****ty local manufacture.
Andrew

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I've seen reports about another $2B worth of exports to other countries already in the pipeline, in addition to the $1.3B of sales to the Aus gov.

This link was sent to me by a mate yesterday. Covers a fair bit.

Hawkei Thales light wheeled protected high mobility vehicle Australia Australian army pictures UK | Australia Australian army wheeled armoured vehicle | Australia Australian military equipment vehicle UK

I dont quite understand these. Smaller than a Bushmaster, bigger than the Landrover/Gwagen. Are they a replacement for the Bushmaster?

The ASLAVS are reported to be replaced by the Terrex.

Could these Hawkei not have been used instead of the Gwagen purchase? Perhaps having a single make/model to support would have cost savings, even if they are a bit big for non-combat transport.
They also have gun equipped Gwagens, why, with these more protected Hawkei?

On another note, both the Landrover and Gwagen must have a much greater support base worldwide, from the manufacturer, than this "bespoke" vehicle.