Oshkosh Protection carried out mobility assessments on the Belgian Land Part (Dutch: Landcomponent, French: Composante terre) camp situated in Marche-en-Famenne to reveal the mobility efficiency of the Joint Gentle Tactical Automobile (JLTV), the Command and Liaison Autos (CLV) which can equip the items of the Elements Earth and Medical from March 2023. In Belgium, the JLTV CLVs will likely be baptized “Falcon” and tailored to Belgian wants and to the European laws. Oshkosh has been commissioned to combine a DeFNder Gentle 7.62 Distant Management Weapon Station (RCWS) from the Belgian firm FN Herstal, on 135 of those autos.
Belgium’s Council of Ministers permitted the acquisition of 322 JLTVs (26 of them will go to the Particular Operations Regiment (SOR) and particularly to the Particular Forces Group (SFG)) in September 2020 for EUR135 million. In service the JLTV will exchange the Iveco LMV fleet for command and liaison missions, and 20 examples will likely be configured as ambulances. The contract additionally features a multiyear open settlement for technical help. First deliveries are anticipated in 2023. The Falcon is nevertheless 90% similar to the essential Joint Gentle Tactical Automobile (JLTV). They’re to succeed the IVECO LMV (Gentle Multirole Automobile) Lynx, in service since 2007.
Commercial
The Joint Gentle Tactical Automobile (JLTV) is a United States army (particularly U.S. Military, U.S. Marine Corps) and United States Particular Operations Command program to partially exchange the Humvee fleet with a household of extra survivable autos having a higher payload. Early research for the JLTV program had been permitted in 2006. The JLTV program incorporates classes discovered from the sooner Future Tactical Truck Methods program and different related efforts. Oshkosh’s L-ATV was chosen because the winner of the JLTV program in August 2015 and awarded an preliminary manufacturing contract for as much as 16,901 JLTVs. The U.S. Military permitted the JLTV for full–price manufacturing in June 2019.
The primary supply order for JLTV was introduced on 23 March 2016 with the U.S. Military ordering 657 JLTVs, together with kits and assist. The $243 million order included autos for the U.S. Military and Marines. As of April 2022, 15 JLTV supply orders had been positioned, the latest of those in November 2021 and valued at USD591 million. The order consists of 1,669 autos and 868 trailers, the car whole together with 125 JLTVs for Brazil, Lithuania, Montenegro, and Slovenia. Deliveries are anticipated to be accomplished by September 2023. This newest order brings the whole variety of JLTVs ordered to this point to 19,727.
