http://www.defencetalk.com/hawkei-australian-light-protected-vehicle-22262/ Defense Industry News, forums and world military pictures Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:36:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.defencetalk.com/hawkei-australian-light-protected-vehicle-22262/comment-page-1/#comment-1544 JohnH Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:48:29 +0000 http://www.defencetalk.com/?p=22262#comment-1544 I'm all for "buy Australian" - but Australia is looking at buying 1300 vehicles on top of a US production run of 160,000+ JLTVs .... or Thales is suggesting we could design and build them in Australia - at what unit cost? Bet it will be a lot more than the JLTV. And didn't it take 10 years to get the Bushmaster into service? We'll be out of Afghanistan before we get these things from Thales. Better off going with the JLTV now. I’m all for “buy Australian” – but Australia is looking at buying 1300 vehicles on top of a US production run of 160,000+ JLTVs …. or Thales is suggesting we could design and build them in Australia – at what unit cost? Bet it will be a lot more than the JLTV. And didn’t it take 10 years to get the Bushmaster into service? We’ll be out of Afghanistan before we get these things from Thales. Better off going with the JLTV now.

]]> http://www.defencetalk.com/hawkei-australian-light-protected-vehicle-22262/comment-page-1/#comment-1534 mark Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:33:45 +0000 http://www.defencetalk.com/?p=22262#comment-1534 we can only pray the mod will actually pick at good vehicle like this or the us armies matv we can only pray the mod will actually pick at good vehicle like this or the us armies matv

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