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17 Apr 09. BATTLESPACE JUNE ISSUE
Special Distribution DVD – June 24th and 25th
Copy deadline: 6th June
Materials deadline: 12th June
Features:
* DVD Preview
* OUVS, LPPV, M-ATV sand JLTV Review by Julian Nettlefold
* U.S. Army Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Update by Scott R. Gourley
* Tactical Trucks on the Battlefield by Shaun Connors
* Perimeter Protection by David Maxwell
* Technology feature – Whole Fleet Management, Logistics and Asset Tracking
* Industry Interview – BATTLESPACE meets Roger Medwell of NP Aerospace
* Technology feature – On-board Electrical Power
Please can we have all details of DVD Stands and participation.
Apr 09. The MoD’s Apr 09 desider magazine reports that Supacat and Babcock, developers and manufactuers of the Jackal have formed an alliance to deliver the next round of vehicles. The team has delivered 130 vehicles in 12 months under UORs and another 100 are anticipated along with 80 Coyote TSVs. (Source: MoD desider)
Apr 09. Sources close to BATTLESPACE say that the NAVISTAR protest on the MAT-V Requirement has since been removed and testing continues. No indications on when any down select will occur, possibly sometime in May is the educated guess.
16 Apr 09. The Finnish government has sought clarification from Slovenia
regarding the status of a $368m deal for armored vehicles and weapons the Ljubljana government signed with Patria in 2006. The move follows remarks made by Matej Lahovnik, Slovenia’s economics minister,
that the country may cancel its order for Armored Modular Vehicles (AMVs) due to “technical problems and other associated issues.” Lahovnik’s comments were reported in the Slovenian newspaper Delo, which quoted
the minister as saying that the Slovenian government is mulling “canceling the contract with Patria over quality concerns.” Finnish company Patria is playing down the minister’s comments. “The media reports that are coming out of Slovenia are mere speculation,” said Seppo Seppälä, the head of Patria’s Armor Unit. Patria has rejected any suggestion that defects have been found in the first 13 armored vehicles scheduled to be delivered to the Slovenian Armed Forces. The inter-state dialogue takes place against a backdrop of official police inquiries in Finland and Slovenia into unconfirmed allegations that bribes were
paid to secure the 135-vehicle contract in 2006. According to Delo, Lahovnik said that technical tests had highlighted “defects and other quality issues” relating to some of the first AMVs slated for delivery. “Due to the defects, the AMVs did not pass quality tests, and they are
not in service with the armed forces,” Lahovnik said, according to Delo.
On March 26, Slovenia’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) raided the homes of several suspects involved in the alleged bribery affair. The BCI, which is working with Finnish and Austrian police authorities under a trilateral investigation, suspects that monies arising from the alleged bribery may have been routed through banks in Austria. (Source: Defense News)
Apr 09. Sources close to BATTLESPAC