Army official: BAE fixing issues with AMPV power train in first vehicles

By Ashley Tressel / March 1, 2019 at 4:02 PM
An Army official says Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle maker BAE Systems is mitigating "a handful of items" identified as issues with the vehicle's performance in the director of operational test and evaluation's latest annual report. Mark Andrews, combat development specialist with the Maneuver Requirements Division, told Inside Defense in an interview the AMPV's failure to meet the reliability benchmark during limited user testing resulted from using a legacy power train in the vehicle, which "created a few hiccups that [BAE is]...

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