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Rheinmetall plants roots in Michigan 5 days ago Rheinmetalls KF 41 Lynx on display at the companys facility in Unterluess, Germany. (Jeff Martin/Staff) WASHINGTON — Germany’s Rheinmetall has a new subsidiary and it is planting its roots in the heart of American vehicle-manufacturing territory. American Rheinmetall Vehicles (ARV) opened its new facility in the DC3S complex in Sterling Heights, Michigan, as it prepares to compete to replace the U.S. Army’s Bradley Infantry Fighting Ve...

Point Blank throws hat in ring to design US Army’s Bradley replacement 7 hours ago Soldiers assigned to 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division maneuver a Bradley Fighting Vehicle during training operations at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California May 27-June 17, 2018. The Army is working toward replacing the vehicle with an Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle with the launch of a competition. Bids were due in April 2021. (1st Lt. Sean Kealey/Army) The compa...

US Army begins evaluating OMFV proposals 21 April 2021 by Ashley Roque Industry teams have submitted their proposals for the US Army’s revamped Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) programme and are awaiting the service’s decision on which ones will receive approximately USD60 million for the concept design phase. At least five teams submitted their information for the army’s Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) replacement effort by the mid-April deadline: BAE Systems, General Dy...

Our Defense News colleague Jen Judson reports that a little-known Michigan-based firm, Mettle Ops, has also entered. For starters, what the competitors submitted on April 15 th was not working prototypes, or even complete designs, but broad “concepts” for how they would approach the complex trade-offs required to build the new combat vehicle. Up to five teams will win concept-development contracts, the Army has said. Then, in 2023, the service will pick up to three teams to finalize their d...