Defence has contracted Rheinmetall Defence Australia to deliver and support 211 Boxer 8×8 Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles (CRV) for the Australian Army.
This is a significant Army capability that will enhance the safety, security and protection of Australian troops for the next 30 years. The Boxer CRV will replace the Australian Light Armoured Vehicle, which has seen extensive operational service since its introduction in 1996.
The Boxer CRV will operate in a range of environments, from the littoral environment of our near region, to contested complex urban environments. The high levels of protection, firepower and mobility provided by the vehicle will enable sustained operations, varying from peacekeeping to close combat.
Rheinmetall Defence Australia has delivered the first 25 Boxer CRVs (known as Block I vehicles) to Defence. The Block I vehicles were built and assembled primarily in Germany and underwent final integration and acceptance testing in Australia.
With a deliberate period of transition, the remaining Boxer CRVs (known as Block II vehicles) will be built and assembled in Australia, under a gradual ramp down in Germany and ramp up in Australia. This will enable progressive technology transfer of the manufacturing techniques and assembly line processes to Australia during this period.
The Resident Project Office in Hamburg continues to support the delivery of the capability and will be in operation until December 2023.
Rheinmetall has officially opened its Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence (MILVEHCOE) facility in Redbank, Queensland, and is progressively establishing contracts with its major Australian sub-contractors.
The Australian workforce involved in the construction of the vehicles will be used to support sustainment, progressive development and upgrades to the Boxer CRV. They will also be used to support potential export opportunities.
Some variants of the CRV will be equipped with:
- an Anti-Tank Guided Missile; and
- a Remote Weapon Station – Block I (Kongsberg) and Block II (Electro Optic Systems).
Australian Industry Capability (AIC)
- Rheinmetall Defence Australia has committed to Australian expenditure of $1.685 billion under the Boxer CRV acquisition contract, as outlined in the AIC Plan.
- Rheinmetall Defence Australia has committed to Australian expenditure of $173 million under the initial support contract for the Boxer CRV, as outlined in the AIC Plan.
- Defence has contracted Australian company Universal Motion Simulator to deliver a high fidelity and immersive training solution to support the Boxer CRV driver training. This includes a commitment to Australian expenditure of $22 million, as outlined in the AIC Plan.
- Defence has contracted Australian company Electro Optic Systems to provide Remote Weapon Stations for the Block II vehicles. This includes Australian expenditure of $35 million, as outlined in the AIC Plan.
Rheinmetall Defence Australia has established an online industry portal for LAND 400 Phase 2, to advertise future work and communicate with the Australian industry network.
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These will be handy to use against real Aussies.
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I,m not sure if these are the in same vane as the bushmasters ,but I hear that the bushmasters are allready peices of burnt junk .
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Well good luck with that in the sea of mud that is Ukraine at present and into May.. These armoured cars will probably last as long as the bushmasters, so not very long at all.. complete waste of taxpayer money as usual. Just bowing to the will of their masters with no reason or common sense… jump, how high, that’s about it…
US does not want a peace plan… it would mean that Russia has won, so they are prepared to ruin an entire country and its people for the sake of their oversized egos.
But Russia has won already, its all but over – hence the mad rush by the West to deliver more weapons, and even the forbidden and dangerous depleted uranium type… They are absolutely desperate!!!
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Latest news – UK defence ministry is supplying depleted uranium armament to Ukraine. If used to bomb the east and possibly Crimea this will have devastating impacts to the environment and the civilians on those lands. It can only be seen as extreme escalation which will prompt Russia to react.
These crazy f*****s have to stop.
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The fake government intervening in a war we should not be getting involved in is treason shipping our defence measures off with no authority to do so is treason and have been committing treason since 1973
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I’m I suppose to be proud. Sounds like marketing BS to me. I hope they are equiped with the best nuclear weapons money can by for extra death capacity.
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So why exactly is the military patrolling an Australian suburban street? And whose military are they? The ADF? Foreign security forces?
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Yesterday I saw one of the old Armoured Personnel Carriers (1960’s) being transported south, through Chermside, by an army semitrailer. The trailer also carried a 500 gallon fuel tank behind the APC. I remember flying 2 APC’s from Townsville to Richmond in the back of a Herc in 1967. The APC’s weigh about 10 tonnes empty and being tracked vehicles, would be ideal in Ukraine. So with MiG 29’s from Poland, F/A 18 Super Hornets from Finland, 40 F/A Hornets in storage, from Australia and all the APC’s in storage here, I am sure Zelensky and his puppet master Kolomoisky, will much impressed.
PS (From William Engdahl)
Kolomoisky’s forces comprise Ukrainian regular military personnel; neo-Nazi units from west Ukraine; foreign mercenaries, including Georgians, Romanians, and white supremacists from Sweden and Germany; ex-Israel Defense Force Blue Helmet commandos. They are organized into four battalions: the Azov Battalion; the Aidar Battalion, the Donbass Battalion; and the 2,000-strong Dniepr-1 (or Dnipro-1) Battalion, which was responsible for the deadly May 1 fire-bombing of the trade union building in Odessa and the burning alive of people trapped inside the Mariupol Police Station on May 9. Dnipro-1 also maintains a 20,000-member reserve force.
At the heart of Kolomoisky’s Army is a Nazi «Brownshirt»-style force of ardent Kolomoisky loyalists who have used guns, iron bars, and batons to seize control of factories and offices in Ukraine that Kolomoisky has expropriated from so-called «separatist» sympathizers.
This is what the Australian Government is supporting! GRRRRR
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Fuck the US armournts WHAT ABOUT THE LIVES of these ignorant mind
fucked soldiers !!!!
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“The high levels of protection, firepower and mobility provided by the vehicle will enable sustained operations, varying from peacekeeping to close combat”.
Reads EXACTLY like a remit from the UN “peacekeepers” if you were to ask i;
We can’t afford to house the homeless or conjure financial instruments to stave of ever increasing “inflation” that drives the value of the “dollar” down thus making Aussie families choose between food or house payments; We can’t fnalise a Defence Contract to purchase Submarines that have already cost 100’s of millions in a reneged French Deal without so much as a bolt to show for it; We still don’t have all of the 20 (now redundant) US Fighter jets Scummo “purchased” on our behalf; Our Navy fleet is basically a floating museum…….
But we now have all these wonderful Urban Assault Vehicles that will be of little use when it comes to defending Australian Territory from any foreign threat;
Strange how these “New” vehicles look very similar to the UN painted vehicles discovered in a Brisbane “Warehouse Distribution Centre” in early 2021
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OK then, answer me this. What use is a wheeled vehicle in the Wet Season? Oh, only for sealed roads then. Gotcha.
I don’t want to be awkward, but all Australian military vehicles need to be suited to defense of Australians in Australia. So we need all-terrain vehicles that can be used all year round.
What I see are vehicles that can be used wherever the Pentagon and White House decide is the 61st sovereign nation to invade for not being subservient to the American Empire.
And why are we buying American missiles, which are twenty years behind those of the Russians? We should be buying the best on the open market, not making US investors of Gruman, Raytheon, and LockhedMartin even more wealthy.
And while we are on the subject, our defense personnel are there to defend Australians against invasion. We have 30,000 Chinese who are now Australian citizens, using CCP money to purchase Australian arable and residential land, which impoverishes and disenfranchises Australians; plus thousands of US CIA and Marines running roughshod over our country, and installing spy and navigation facilities that will attract reprisal missiles.
How is any of this a defence policy when our troops serve the enemy.
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Meanwhile Australians are living in tents, old caravans,cars etc. They’ve forgotten that charity should begin at home.
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Don’t bet on it, they are both falling over each other to look good on supporting Ukraine
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The Russian military will be more than happy to reverse engineer captured Australian CRVs … that’s if any survive a Russian artillery onslaught.
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In a normal combat environment, the absurd size of these vehicles would make them extremely difficult to conceal, hence, making them an easy target for enemy land and air based anti-tank weapons.
German AFV designers of WWII were extremely successful due to their low silhouette vehicle design (eg. Stug series), so why change a thoroughly tried and tested combat wisdom?
Did Rheinmetal have veteran front line troops involved with this design, as the German defence industry used to do?, I doubt it.
Steel coffins in my opinion.
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