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The U.S. Army has awarded GM Defense LLC a $ 214.3M production contract to build, field, and maintain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). GM Defense’s solution to the Army’s next-generation transportation needs builds on the award-winning Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 2020 medium truck architecture and leverages 70 percent of commercial parts.
GM Defense, a division of General Motors launched in 2017, won a $ 214.3 million contract from the US Army to build infantry squad vehicles based on the high-performance Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 pickup.
The troop transport truck has a nine-person capacity and a protective roll cage that has equipment mounts and attachment points where it can be attached to a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter for rapid deployment, but is low enough for the vehicle is loaded into a CH -47 Chinook.
The U.S. Army has awarded GM Defense LLC a $ 214.3M production contract to build, field, and maintain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). GM Defense’s solution to the Army’s next-generation transportation needs builds on the award-winning Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 2020 medium truck architecture and leverages 70 percent of commercial parts.
The ISV uses 90 percent of the parts available on the market, including the Colorado’s 2.8hp 186hp four-cylinder six-cylinder automatic transmission. It also carries consumer-tuned, precision-tuned Multimatic DSSV spool valve dampers, allowing you to drive and jump over rough terrain at high speeds.
The U.S. Army has awarded GM Defense LLC a $ 214.3M production contract to build, field, and maintain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). GM Defense’s solution to the Army’s next-generation transportation needs builds on the award-winning Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 2020 medium truck architecture and leverages 70 percent of commercial parts.
The project is a collaboration with Ricardo Defense that overcame Oshkosh / Flyer Defense and SAIC / Polaris submissions for the contract.
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According to a GM Defense spokeswoman, the contract price covers the purchase of up to 1,070 trucks, with the first 649 of them confirmed, while additional allocations could expand the program to 2,065 vehicles.
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