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IAV
International Armoured Vehicles 2011
International Defence Exhibition & Conference
Excel London,
United Kingdom
07 - 10 February 2011 |
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Force Protection at IAV 2011 |
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Wednesday,
February 9, 2011, 5:46 PM |
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Force
Protection presents the new Ocelot’s utility variant
at International Armoured Vehicles 2011.
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Force
Protection Europe’s contract winning light protected
patrol vehicle for the British Army, with the Ocelot. At
IAV 2011, Force Protection presents for the first time to
the public, the version of the Ocelot variant which will
be delivered to the British army and the new utility variant.
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The first batch of vehicles, which will
be known as Foxhound by the British Army, will be delivered
to the Army’s training fleet later this year with
the final vehicles scheduled to be completed by Spring
2012.
Designed, developed and built in the UK
by survivability specialist Force Protection Europe, together
with Team Ocelot partners automotive specialist Ricardo
plc, Thales, QinetiQ, Formaplex, DSG and Sula, Ocelot
is the most highly protected and agile vehicle of its
size and weight that is available today.
Ocelot moved from concept to development
over a remarkably short time frame for a military vehicle.
Marrying together innovations from the motorsport arena
with traditional defence vehicle development discipline,
Ocelot underwent more than 12 months of rigorous blast
and mobility testing before being chosen by the MoD.
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David
Hind, Managing Director, Force Protection Europe, said,
“Our prime goal for this year is to meet the MoD’s
schedule for the LPPV programme. However Ocelot’s
success has also generated international interest in this
ground breaking vehicle, which we hope to see being developed
for other markets; the first of these is Australia as we
prepare to send two Ocelots – a utility and a command
variant – Down Under for testing in the Land 121 Phase
4 Project for the Protected Mobility Vehicle – Light
prototype.” |
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