(Washington, D.C) As the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle competition heats up moving into the next phase, the service is reviewing a number of industry proposals to make a decision about which armored combat vehicle builders should be given deals to build prototypes.
While the Army does not announce the competitors, the field naturally includes some of the largest and most well known weapons developers. One team, interestingly, is an interesting industry conglomerate looking to synergize the best in German armored vehicle engineering with world-leading U.S. combat vehicle expertise and production capacity.
Rheinmetall OMFV Lynx Team
American Rheinmetall Defense is the U.S. extension of Germany’s Rheinmetall defense, a well known combat vehicle leader responsible for contributing to the Leopard tank and Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
Led by Rheinmetall, the “Lynx” team is building a distinct U.S. “variant” intended to align specifically with U.S. Army requirements. While based upon Rheinmetall expertise, the vehicle will incorporate major U.S. industry participation and emerge as an entirely new “U.S. variant” of the Lynx. The Rheinmetall team includes Raytheon, Textron, L3Harris and Allison Transmission.
Building on Rheinmetall’s manufacturing experience, Team Lynx will manufacture the OMFV structure and assemble and test the U.S. Army’s OMFV at the Textron Systems manufacturing facility in Louisiana.
