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GM Defense, a unit of General Motors, was awarded a contract with the US Army worth up to $ 214.3 million to build a fleet of high-performance vehicles from the infantry squad.
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The nine-passenger trucks are based on the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 pickup and are designed to be transported under UH-60 Blackhawk or inside CH-47 Chinook helicopters for rapid deployment.
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The contract is the largest won by the General Motors division, which was reinstated as an independent business unit in 2017. An order for 639 of the trucks was confirmed, while the total contract amount will cover the production of 1,070 trucks. if implemented and could be expanded to 2,065 with additional allocations.
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The GM / Ricardo project was chosen over the Oshkosh / Flyer Defense and SAIC / Polaris submissions and shares 90 percent if it is part of the platform with consumer vehicles.
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Along with the Infantry Squad Vehicle, GM Defense has demonstrated concepts for various electric vehicles that use hydrogen fuel cells instead of large battery packs, including the multi-functional SURUS autonomous platform.
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