In June 2020 the U.S. Army selected the GM (General Motors) candidate for the new, lightweight, ISV (Infantry Squad Vehicle). The two other competitors were familiar special operations vehicles, the GD (General Dynamics) Flyer 72 and a variation of an old SOCOM (Special Operations Command) favorite the Polaris DAGOR. SOCOM was already using Flyer 72 …
Pentagon Procurement and the Laws of Physics Waste Some things aren’t possible, but that doesn’t keep the military from trying By Filed under Mark Thompson | | analysis Old boys of a certain age can recall “playing war” with small, plastic Army men, vanquishing foes on the plains of Europe or Pacific islands. DAGOR Turrets …
AUSA 2019: DAGOR A1 platforms in demonstrations, tests for potential customers Polaris Government and Defense is marketing its DAGOR A1 ultra-light tactical vehicle with added payload capacity, and has platforms out for trials with possible customers. The A1 variant makes several improvements on the original model, most notably in payload at 4,000 lb (1,814 kg), …
Who Will Build 651 Parachuting Trucks For The Army? WASHINGTON: Three very different teams are vying to build the Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle, a truck tough enough to parachute out of an airplane and then drive away cross-country with nine heavily armed infantrymen. By Nov. 13th, each team owes the Army two vehicles for testing, …
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The Army’s next infantry assault buggy might be a classic ‘G.I. Joe’ battlewagon Polaris and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced on Thursday that the two firms are officially collaborating on an offering for the Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle, an air-droppable tactical vehicle intended to provide 9-member squads with enhanced mobility over the Humvee or …
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