DefenceTalkRheinmetall has won another major order in Australia. The Duesseldorf, Germany-based tech enterprise has been selected to supply the Australian Defence Force with more than a thousand additional military trucks and modules. Just signed, the contract is worth €430 million. The Commonwealth of Australia has thus acted on a procurement decision already announced in July […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rheinmetall-sells-australia-over-a-thousand-more-trucks-71846/

DefenceTalkJason Kenney, Minister of National Defence, and Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, today announced the awarding of two competitive contracts to Mack Defense, LLC, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, for the purchase of new trucks for the Canadian Armed Forces under the Medium Support Vehicle System project. Through these contracts, the Government will […]https://www.defencetalk.com/canada-awards-major-military-procurement-contracts-for-new-trucks-64896/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Army Reserve has fielded the first two M1271 Medium Flail Mine Clearing Vehicles, or MCV, with the 364th Engineer Platoon, located at Fort Smith, Arkansas. The MCV is a manned vehicle designed to clear paths through minefields and provides area clearance using a motorized flail system to detonate mines in a safe manner. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/m1271-medium-flail-clearing-vehicles-enter-us-army-service-60693/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin successfully completed new tests validating the ability of driverless military-truck convoys to operate successfully and safely in a variety of environments. The second series of demonstrations of the Autonomous Mobility Applique System (AMAS) Capabilities Advancement Demonstration (CAD-2) tests were conducted at the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-demonstrate-2nd-series-of-advanced-autonomous-convoy-ops-59853/

DefenceTalkRheinmetall has just booked another big order for its state-of-the-art, high-mobility truck families. In the medium term, Norway and Sweden intend to buy as many as two thousand military logistics vehicles with a total value of over €1 billion. Following the Norwegian procurement authorities, today Sweden too signed the framework agreement for joint procurement of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rheinmetall-wins-major-contract-from-sweden-for-military-trucks-59720/

DefenceTalkDefence Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman today announced the purchase of 200 new trucks for the New Zealand Defence Force. In a $135 million project, the government is purchasing Rheinmetall-MAN military vehicles to replace the old NZDF Unimog and heavier Mercedes trucks. “The new NZDF medium and heavy trucks will carry more people and equipment, and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-trucks-for-nz-defence-force-47799/