via Press Release.
NEW ORLEANS – JULY 2, 2013 – Textron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that it has been awarded a $3.29 million firm-fixed price contract from the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command for work on the Modernized Expanded Capacity Vehicle Survivability (MECV-S) system. TM&LS is teaming with Granite Tactical Vehicles to deliver innovative crew protection and vehicle survivability enhancements for the Army’s HMMWV vehicles. The program’s follow-on potential is for work on up to 5,750 vehicles.This practically seals it for me. The JLTV WILL BE CANNED. The fact that the Army is sponsoring this award tells me all I need to know. An upgraded Humvee will be the ride for the near term and "we might revisit" the JLTV concept in the future.
The Army is seeking technical solutions to address current and future threats to its HMMWV tactical vehicle fleet through the use of scalable armor technologies. The TM&LS/Granite team will install its MECV-S protection system, a production-ready Technology Readiness Level 8 system, on two government-furnished HMMWVs and deliver them this summer to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. for Improvised Explosive Device testing. Computer Aided Design models also will be submitted for analysis.
“Our TM&LS/Granite MECV-S solution would replace the current HMMWV crew compartment in a one-for-one exchange. It offers vehicle occupants an armored monocoque V-hull protective capsule and restores the vehicle’s tactical mobility with proven components,” explains TM&LS Senior Vice President and General Manager Tom Walmsley.
Good.
Wow, this looks like an excellent, cost effective upgrade.
ReplyDeletei think so, it has the Oshkosh suspension, is as well armored as an MRAP and regains the lost mobility that happened to armored humvees (m1114)
DeleteDo you know what engine and transmission it has? The cooling package would be the next weakness, it can barely handle the 200 hp GM engine so it needs an upgrade too.
ReplyDeleteIf that Granite capsule works out I will jump on board the upgraded bandwagon.
Want to know what is sad? I saw this capsule at modern day marine in 08. Better late than never. Heres to hopin'
i don't know what engine it has...i'll research it. quite honestly i'm in a bitchy little girl mode. if i can't have the MPC then fuck the JLTV..don't feed me catfish when i want steak (bad example...i'll always gobble catfish down but you get the idea.)
DeleteYeah I would have liked the MPC, I think that vehicle basically defined "middleweight" force. But it is gone now, I am not going to bet against you on the JLTV, and I am going to hope for the best with this new upgrade.
DeleteHopefully it can drive up the hill with a full load of equipment, Marines, and trailer without overheating like the current uparmors. I believe
Well you can retrofit a Duramax and with this radiator:
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More often them not the power hungry aftermarket nuts already made something like this. These lunatics will take it to 800 hp/ 1400 fl-lbs of torque with Propane/Nitrous Injection. And an Allison 6 speed.