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  1. DIADES
    as have Hanwha
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    How does one PUMA recover another? Typically, an AFV has a rear pintle hook and can use that plus and A frame attached to the front recovery eyes of a casualty vehicle to flat tow recover it. PUMA has an odd looking hook where I expect to see a pintle? And I can't find any images of a PUMA recovering another PUMA?
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    and I do. Truck mounted is way ahead of towed - although watching a well drilled team bring their gun into action is a joy. Providing there are no bad guys... Yes, wheels are for barrows. I wasn't thinking that a low recoil force would make the platform smaller or shorter, more that the low recoil forces could allow a lighter, more agile platform (tracked) to have acceptable dynamic stability if the gun fired while it was in motion. Not a deeply considered though, came out as I typed.
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    I reckon that if the recoil forces are as low (haven't seen numbers) as claimed, then perhaps fire on the move from a heavy tracked platform becomes possible' Given that the proto is on an FMTV surely that is deliberate to illustrate exactly how the OEM sees sales?
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    perhaps - but as I read it, one of the sales points of such low recoil systems is their ability to carry their own firing loads thus enabling them to be fitted to any old lightweight chassis. Point is of course, that any old lightweight chassis can't carry a decent armoured cab and BTW, where does the ammo go? A second lightweight truck? With armoured cab?
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    You are seeing a gun I think and I am seeing a vehicle. May reflect our backgrounds - certainly my view does. I guess as mature adults we should be seeing the system. I don't really see a place for un-armoured guns anymore either - no matter how good the gun is. Counter battery fire is just too good. Shoot and scoot, yeah but enemy batteries and loitering drones will be firing on you while your first salvo is still in the air. The only attraction for a gun on an un-armoured truck is price. I guess I am situating the appraisal - I automatically think peer to peer. If not that, then gun on a truck is fine.
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    They certainly should give a pretty good indication of CoG location. But, i would be surprised to see a rear bias. Front powerpack including an MBT transmission. Looks like roughly 100mm forward of the turret centerline to me.
  8. DIADES
    I had forgotten how much I enjoy the witty repartee so often a feature of forums in general. Thank you for reminding me of both that enjoyment and my own failings.
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    Absolutely
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    I don't think there is any vehicle that a C17 can carry two of if the vehicles are at the mandated protection level. PUMA also cannot meet the growth requirement. The chassis is at its weight limit - no way is there 20% growth available.
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    So how come no bid?
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    ..and they were right then too.
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    Yes, CV90 or ASCOD. BAE very, very hungry
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    That work share will be reconfigured in 2020. Rheinmetall will acquire KMW.
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    No surprise. As I said in September, " Pretty hard to do a cheap PUMA, it is a very integrated beastie. " CV90 will probably win.
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    Jeebers! That had better be cheap. Only one (very small) step up from a Technical.
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    Good article: https://breakingdefense.com/2019/10/bradley-replacement-army-risks-third-failure-in-a-row/ Note that by 2023 both LYNX and Redback will have completed RMA for L400 Phase 3 and one will have been selected.
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    How do we know this? It was not a condition. If true, then GD are well and truly in the box seat
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    Yes they were working on it and I imagine their commercial guys were preping people like Textron in parallel. The person who provided the info works out of Tuscon where the bid team wee so is a pretty good source.
  20. DIADES
    Friend of a friend has a friend in Raytheon
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    Correct. As I hear it, the failure to provide a sample came about as Raytheon decided not to bid (some time ago). The decision was based on non-compliance with requirements. About 10 days out from the closing date, that decision was reversed, no idea why, seems unlikely that compliance could have changed much so I assume politics. Problem, Rheinmetall, knowing the bid was off, began turret off deep maintenance on the proto. The rest writes itself. So non-compliance with requirements lead to non-compliance with conditions
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    It does happen, no way to tell at this stage. This is interesting: But a larger issue, multiple sources conveyed, was the clear differences between what the Army acquisition community and what Army Futures Command wanted to do. Sources confirmed that the acquisition side of the house was willing to agree to extensions, for instance, but AFC, who is in charge of rapid requirements development and prototyping efforts ahead of programs of record, insisted the Army must adhere to the schedule. Industry also expressed concern to the Army over the roughly 100 mandatory requirements, with just six tradeable ones, expected to be met over 15 months using non-developmental vehicles From: https://www.defensenews.com/land/2019/10/04/lynx-41-disqualified-from-bradley-replacement-competition/ Noting that nobody has published any data on any vehicle presently in existence (non-developmental) that meets the spec or even near it.
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    Have a good read of the requirements. The fundamental conflict is the usual weight/protection problem. The driver is the requirement to put two units in a C17 and have very, very high protection and 20% growth margin. BAE assessed that as not doable. Rheinmetall/Ratheon bid Kf41 which from my reading of mas and protection claims against L400 Phase 3, cannot meet the OMFV spec and would have been rejected regardless of not providing a bid sample. GD have bid and good luck to them
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    Don't know - but having only a single valid bid sure as hell compromises credibility. Given BAE no bid, Rheinmetall non-compliant bid. Pretty clear that the requirement set does not work.
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    Yeah, but to some extent, Rheinmetall is a victim of its own success, The Kf41 was developed specifically for the Australian L400 Phase 3 Requirement. The very strong interest from half a dozen other nations probably exceeded even the wildest marketing team claims. All the air miles and repaints on the show car will have hacked into its availability too. They probably never expected to be the prettiest girl at the ball.
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