Leonardo and Iveco against the German Rheinmetall for the new Army combat vehicle
According to Rid magazine, Leonardo and Iveco Defense Veicheles have presented a proposal for the new combat vehicle for the infantry of the Italian Army
Leonardo points to the Aics program of the Army.
According to rumors of the Rid , the Defense group led by Alessandro Profumo would have presented together with Iveco Defense Vechicles an offer to the Italian Army for the Aics (Armored infantry combat system) program.
Leonardo and Iveco will have to beat the competition of the German Rheinmetall which at the beginning of the year made its proposal. The Aics program provides for the purchase of 679 tracked armored vehicles with which to replace the now obsolete IFV DARDO and M113. In the Defense Dpp 2021-2023, the government has budgeted 2.141 billion until 2035.
According to the analysts of Banca Akros, the news of a Leonardo-Iveco offer, "is potentially positive, even if the award may take years".
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THE NATIONAL LEONARDO-IVECO DEFENSE VECHICLES PROPOSAL
"Iveco DV and Leonardo have responded to EI's need for a new combat vehicle for infantry – AICS program (Armored Infantry Combat System) – with a national proposal of which Rid is able to provide you with an exclusive preview" , we read in the Italian Defense Magazine directed by Pietro Batacchi.
“This is a new vehicle for which a feasibility study has already been completed,” says Rid .
COMPETING AT RHEINMETALL
The proposal of the Italian consortium could contend with the German Rheinmetall, which had expressed its interest at the beginning of the year .
It should be remembered that Rheinmetall Italia is the subsidiary of the German defense industry giant of the same name, with a turnover of over 6 billion euros and over 25 thousand employees. In our country, Rheinmetall Italia has a turnover of 150 million euros and has about 2 thousand employees.
On the Italian side, Rheinmetall has committed to identifying the operational requirements for the Army Dart replacement, which is expected to be operational by 2025.
Specifically, the company proposed the creation of an Italian pole of excellence through the consolidation of the national land sector. In other words, the “Transfer of technology and know-how in the tracked sector from Germany to Italy for the benefit of the national industry” is envisaged. “Rheinmetall and Italian industries can work on the Lynx platform. We can involve the entire national industrial sector, the Italian production quota can exceed 70% of the value of the order ”, reported in February the CEO of Rheinmetall Italia, Alessandro Ercolani at the hearing in the Chamber.
THE AICS PORGRAM
The Aics program provides for the purchase of 679 vehicles. The government has already budgeted 2.141 billion between now and 2035. The requirement
As stated in the Defense Dpp 2021-2023 , the program is aimed at the renewal of the entire combat capacity of heavy forces, through the acquisition of a system of systems (family of platforms) for heavy infantry (Armored Infantry Combat System – AICS), centered on a combat platform (Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle – AIFV) and a series of support platforms (Command Post, counter-tank, mortar rack, sapper genius, explorers, anti-aircraft, casualty carriers, ammunition carriers and driving school).
The new system, characterized by a modular approach, will be characterized by evolutionary performances based on mature, new generation technological solutions and a system design suitable to guarantee a continuous growth potential and favor integration with other families of platforms. , interoperability, interconnection of command and control systems and Battle Space Management, in order to effectively contribute to the achievement of multi-domain effects.
The program is part of a widespread interest, on the part of allied and friendly countries, in the renewal of the combat capabilities of their heavy forces, taking into account the contemporary, progressive obsolescence they are facing and which severely limits their availability and operational effectiveness.
IN VIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FUTURE EUROPEAN MAIN BATTLE TANK
“On the basis of this assumption, some European industrial consortia have started development programs in the specific segment, aimed at creating families of new generation combat platforms for heavy infantry” adds the DPP.
The reference is to the Main Ground Combat System (Mgcs) is the program for the chariot of the future in Paris and Berlin.
German-led, MGCS is one of two defense collaborations between France and Germany, which aims to replace the French Leclerc and the German Leopard 2 by 2035. The second program is the Future Combat Air System ( FCAS ), led by France, to which Spain has also joined.
Both Italy and Poland have repeatedly asked to join the MGCS program, but at the moment Paris and Berlin want to keep the exclusively bilateral project until a prototype is developed.
“In this context, – continues the DPP – the Italian Defense intends to pursue solutions which, in addition to satisfying the need for capacity, maximize returns at industrial and employment levels and in terms of increasing national technological know-how. The development of this project in a multinational context, based on alliances between solid European companies that already collaborate with Italian companies, will create advantageous opportunities for the expansion of the partnership to the development program of the future European Main Battle Tank, a capacity of which the The Army needs to equip itself as a guideline starting from 2035 and whose realization is consequential and strictly correlated to the Armored Infantry Combat System program ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/leonardo-e-iveco-contro-la-tedesca-rheinmetall-per-il-nuovo-veicolo-da-combattimento-dellesercito/ on Thu, 30 Sep 2021 06:09:08 +0000.