Defence - Seventh Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 February 2007.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1  Introduction

2  The medium-weight vehicle requirement

Current armoured vehicle fleet

Capability gap

3  Meeting the requirement in the short-term

Upgrade of existing vehicles

Procurement of Mastiff and Vector armoured vehicles

4  Meeting the requirement in the longer-term

TRACER and MRAV Boxer programmes

FRES 2001-2003: "the in-house concept phase"

The requirement

The weight challenge

An off-the-shelf solution?

FRES 2004 to date

The Initial Assessment Phase

The role of the MoD

The role of the Systems House

Technology Demonstrator Programmes

Acquisition strategy

In-Service Date and Main Gate Approval: Utility variant

The Heavy and Reconnaissance variants

5  Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

List of Abbreviations

Formal minutes

List of witnesses

List of written evidence

List of unprinted written evidence

Defence Committee Reports in this Parliament

ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE
Oral Evidence - 12 December 2006
Written Evidence

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Prepared 21 February 2007