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Article: German Army Receives New Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle Demonstrator.(contract with PSM GmbH, a joint venture of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall Landsysteme)(Brief Article)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- December 21, 2005
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PSM GmbH, a joint venture of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall Landsysteme, yesterday presented a prototype of the new Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle Puma to the German army contracting authority, the company said.
The German army is to receive a total of 410 vehicles representing a total value of about $3.5 billion. The political decision to move the vehicle into production is expected for 2007. A contract has been awarded for five pre- production vehicles as well as ...