Irish Department of Defence issues RFT for Light Tactical Armoured Vehicles

The Irish Department of Defence (DoD ) has issued a Request For Tender (RFT) for Light Tactical Armoured Vehicles (LTAVs) for delivery beginning in 2009.

TheDoD is looking fora fleet of LTAV that will fulfil a number of distinct roles, within the full spectrum of operations both at home and overseas. The vehicles will be required to carry out a range of tasks including command, control and communications, light reconnaissance, target acquisition tasks and to act as a weapon platform.

The MoD envisages a total procurement of 54 vehicles in three phases. The initial requirementis to procure 27 vehicles in four variants. These 27 LTAVs will consist of Standard (15), Surveillance and Target Acquisition (4), Intelligence/Surveillance/Reconnaissance (6) and Communications and Information Services (2) variants.

The second and third phases, respectively of 17 and 10 vehicles, are yet to be confirmed.

Tenders are required by early July and the DoD hopes to carry out user trials on the selected competitorsbeginning in September.

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