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10-03-2005, 03:56 PM
Boxer misses key pricing deadline
By Joris Janssen Lok JDW Correspondent
The Hague
The German-Netherlands ARTEC (ARmoured TEChnology) industry consortium, responsible for developing the Boxer 8 x 8 wheeled armoured vehicle, has failed to quote a new price for series-production Boxer vehicles by the end of September 2005, Netherlands State Secretary of Defence Cees van der Knaap has announced.
ARTEC, which comprises Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, Rheinmetall Landsysteme (Germany) and Stork PWV (the Netherlands), was contractually bound to inform the European arms procurement agency OCCAR (acting on behalf of both governments) by the end of September how much the series-production Boxer was going to cost.
The new price was required to meet concerns that, after the UK withdrawal from the Boxer programme and the resulting reduction in production numbers, the vehicles could become too expensive.
For now, the Dutch Ministry of Defence in The Hague is continuing its evaluation of alternative options to meet its requirement for up to 257 large armoured vehicles in five variants (command and control, battlefield damage repair, ambulance, transport, and engineer).
http://www.janes.com/defence/land_forces/news/jdw/jdw051003_1_n.shtml
By Joris Janssen Lok JDW Correspondent
The Hague
The German-Netherlands ARTEC (ARmoured TEChnology) industry consortium, responsible for developing the Boxer 8 x 8 wheeled armoured vehicle, has failed to quote a new price for series-production Boxer vehicles by the end of September 2005, Netherlands State Secretary of Defence Cees van der Knaap has announced.
ARTEC, which comprises Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, Rheinmetall Landsysteme (Germany) and Stork PWV (the Netherlands), was contractually bound to inform the European arms procurement agency OCCAR (acting on behalf of both governments) by the end of September how much the series-production Boxer was going to cost.
The new price was required to meet concerns that, after the UK withdrawal from the Boxer programme and the resulting reduction in production numbers, the vehicles could become too expensive.
For now, the Dutch Ministry of Defence in The Hague is continuing its evaluation of alternative options to meet its requirement for up to 257 large armoured vehicles in five variants (command and control, battlefield damage repair, ambulance, transport, and engineer).
http://www.janes.com/defence/land_forces/news/jdw/jdw051003_1_n.shtml