Published: Aug. 30, 2011 at 10:48 AM
LONDON, Ontario, Aug. 30 (UPI) — General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada said it’s offering the PIRANHA 5 vehicle for the government’s Close Combat Vehicle program.
The PIRANHA 5 offered is fitted with Rheinmetall’s LANCE 30mm Modular Turret System.
The PIRANHA 5 CCV is the latest evolution of the proven PIRANHA family of wheeled combat vehicles, incorporating the newest lethality, mobility, protection and communications technologies.
“With the PIRANHA 5 CCV, Canadian soldiers will control the battlefield and fight, maneuver and communicate with agility and precise lethality,” said company Vice President Danny Deep. “And they will do it in a vehicle that achieves the deployability and lifecycle cost benefits enjoyed by the rest of Canada’s wheeled combat vehicle fleet. ”
General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada has assembled a Canadian team for this program. General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada will be the prime contractor for the CCV program and will manufacture and assemble the PIRANHA 5 chassis at its facility in London, Ontario.
Rheinmetall’s LANCE 30mm turret technology will be transferred to its Rheinmetall Canada facility in Saint-Jean-sur Richelieu, Quebec, for full turret production.
Armatec Survivability Canada of Dorchester, Ontario, will augment the PIRANHA 5′s inherent protection with a survivability suite of advanced composite materials and the latest technology in energy-absorbing troop and crew seating, all designed and tested to meet rigorous blast, IED and kinetic-energy threats.
The remainder of the team will be drawn from a supplier base of more than 400 Canadian companies.
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