UK: Mechanised Infantry Vehicle

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KONGSBERG wins Remote Weapon Stations contract of 1 030 MNOK with The British MIV program
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (KONGSBERG) has signed a contract valued 1 030 MNOK with Thales UK Ltd. for delivery of the PROTECTOR RS4 Remote Weapon Stations (RWS) to the British Army Mechanized Infantry Vehicle (MIV) program.
KONGSBERG has provided UK with PROTECTOR RWS’s since 2008, and MIV is the seventh delivery contract including two upgrades for the British Armed Forces. The PROTECTOR RS4 RWS will be integrated on the British Army`s new fleet of BOXER 8x8 vehicles in close cooperation with Thales UK, Rheinmetall and KMW.
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Thales in Scotland’s Vehicle Integration Success


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2021 is going to see Thales’s Vehicle Integration centre in Scotland busier than ever with the award of a new contract.

Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) and Rheinmetall Landsystems (RLS) having jointly awarded Thales in the UK a £180m contract for the supply and integration of the PROTECTOR RS4 Remote Weapon Station (RWS) and the Acusonic® Shot Detection system for the British Army’s new Boxer, 8x8, armoured vehicle.

Integration work will happen at Thales’s Glasgow Vehicle Integration Centre ensuring dozens of skilled engineering jobs are maintained on the banks of the Clyde for many years to come.
As part of the contract Thales, as a strategic partner to Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace, will fully assemble and integrate around 500 RWS and deliver and integrate circa 500 Thales Acusonic® systems onto the Boxer vehicles over the next 10 years, as part of the UK MOD’s Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) programme.

Not only will Thales integrate Kongsberg’s RWS onto these new armoured vehicles but as an additional bonus Thales also supplies several of the components used in the PROTECTOR RS4 creating a double win for Thales. The Catherine EZ Thermal Imaging Module as well as the CELT3 Laser Range Finder, both products that are made at the Glasgow site and form crucial elements for the completed RWS, giving them their cutting edge ‘situational awareness’ capability.

Another Thales product, Acusonic, was first supplied in 2018 to the British Army’s AJAX Armoured Vehicle Programme and now, under this contract, will be fitted to Boxer as well. Designed to accurately sense and report the direction of incoming enemy fire, the Acusonic system gives the vehicle’s crew the critical situational awareness to react to the threat.
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British Army wants more punch in its Boxer vehicle fleet

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UK Warrior upgrade cancellation makes sale of CT40 cannons likely
There had been speculation that the cannons could be reused and installed in Boxer mechanised infantry vehicles to create an IFV variant for the British Army, but on 19 April the service told Janes it had no intention to develop such a vehicle.

“There are no current plans to commission Boxer into an armoured infantry role,”
said a British Army spokesperson. “We are assessing potential lethality options for the Boxer.”

In 2015 the MoD contracted BAE Systems-Nexter partnership CTA International for 515 Case Telescoped Armament System (CTAS) cannons for the Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme (WCSP) and the Ajax armoured vehicle project in a deal worth GBP150 million. Apart from 25 cannons used for trial purposes, the order was split evenly between the Warrior and Ajax efforts.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... ons-likely
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As part of this modernisation we intend to accelerate and enhance the Boxer programme to deliver full operational capability by 2030. Boxer will become the primary mechanised infantry platform for the Army as Warrior retires.
There are no current plans to develop an Infantry Fighting Vehicle variant of AJAX.
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RFEL Announces Contract Award for TRAILBLAZER on UK Boxer MIV

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RFEL are pleased to announce their award to supply their TRAILBLAZER driver vision aid into the Boxer Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) programme for UK MOD.

The programme will be delivered over a 10-year period, sustaining and creating jobs in the local community and beyond.
The TRAILBLAZER system acts as the eyes of the MIV vehicle for the driver, commander and crew. The configuration supplied into the MIV programme will be RFEL’s latest, 3rd generation series of products, using the most modern processing technology available. Individual camera clusters distributed around the vehicle deliver a full 360° panoramic situational awareness capability. They feature high performance electro-optics covering visible and thermal spectral ranges together with RFEL’s class leading Video Fusion technology.

The software defined capability of TRAILBLAZER ensures the camera modules can be continuously updated, with product enhancements and new features developed during the operational life of the vehicle. This extends longevity of service by offering the ability to adapt to customer needs and urgent operational requirements.

TRAILBLAZER is fully compliant to the UK Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) standards. This implements a highly flexible video over Ethernet distribution supporting multiple, concurrent fields of view for driver and crew. In addition, ultra-low latency point-to-point links support a dedicated Driver’s Display.
The camera configuration for Boxer MIV has been specially designed by RFEL to the high specifications of the customer, including 2 new TRAILBLAZER products. The MIV configuration consists of newly developed models alongside RFEL’s standard models. The PAX camera gives coverage in all light conditions to ensure the safety of the crew entering or leaving the vehicle. TRAILBLAZER Cameras are compact and modular by design, enabling a plug-and-play approach to system design.
The Boxer MIV programme will deliver over a 10-year period, creating and sustaining jobs in the local community and beyond. The peak of production for this project will see RFEL delivering 400 TRAILBLAZER units per year, with in-service support spanning 30 years.

TRAILBLAZER’s supply chain is almost exclusively UK-based; PCBs, glass and optical assembly, development and manufacture of the wiper systems, connectors, cable assemblies, machining and the Driver Display are all procured from UK suppliers.
https://www.rfel.com/rfel-announces-con ... boxer-miv/
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