BAE Systems and Polish Defence to provide armoured tracked vehicles for Polish Military
BAE Systems and Polish Defence team offer new family of armoured tracked vehicles for Polish Military
BAE Systems Hägglunds and Polish national defence company, Polish Defence Holding (formerly the Bumar Group), have joined forces to offer new tracked armoured combat vehicles for a top-priority Polish military programme under an exclusive teaming agreement.
The Modular Tracked Platform (MTP) is part of Poland’s National Armour Programme.
The MTP timescales are tight with a production contract likely to be let in 2015 with the first vehicles delivered for service in 2018. To meet them the team is proposing a family of vehicles which draws heavily on CV90 technology and reaps the benefit of millions of man hours and dollars already invested in its design.
“Polish Defence Holding has extensive experience as an in-country prime contractor and will be critical in developing solutions for this new family of armored fighting vehicles that will meet the military’s requirements in Poland,” said Erwin Bieber, president of BAE Systems’ Land & Armaments sector.
The partnership brings the team one step closer to meeting the demanding technical and time challenges of this major Polish program and delivering critical operational capability to the Polish Land Forces. Polish Defence Holding will be instrumental in facilitating production of the vehicles if this team’s offering is selected.
BAE Systems Land & Armaments is a leading international provider of armored combat vehicles. BAE Systems Hägglunds is its Swedish tracked vehicles unit and produces the CV90 for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Also in its portfolio is the BvS10 all-terrain vehicle and hybrid drive technology.
