The contract, awarded to General Dynamics Land Systems, will deliver between 26 and 96 vehicles, with the first set to arrive in 2024. In June, the US Army announced it was spending up to $1.14 billion on this brand-new light tank, which is formally called the Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle. The machine is essentially a light tank, an armored turreted and tracked vehicle with a big gun. The only surviving CCVL prototype is on display at a private museum in California, USA.In October, the Army is expected to announce a proper name for its newest vehicle. However, the technologies tested on the CCVL allowed the FMC to develop later a XM8 prototype, as well as an export VFM 5 (together with the British Vickers Defense). During the development, at least two CCVL prototypes were built due to the increased cost of the project, further development was suspended. The main components of the power plant were borrowed from the M977 HEMTT tactical truck, the transmission was taken from the M2 Bradley IFV. The CCVL digital fire control system included stabilized sights for the gunner and commander, both equipped with thermal imagers. The main gun was supposed to be the 105mm M68A1 rifled cannon with a reduced recoil, an electric drive and an automatic loader. The main priorities of the project were its high mobility, advanced military technologies, as well as the use of components already mastered in mass production. To reduce the overall weight, aluminum alloys were widely used in the design, resulting in a protection effective only against shrapnell and machine gun fire. In 1985, the American FMC company created a prototype light tank CCVL (Close Combat Vehicle, Light) under the AGS (Armored Gun System) program to provide airborne light armored vehicles to support infantry forces.
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