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2020-11-08

Rheinmetall and Textron Systems Join Forces with U.S. Army

American Rheinmetall Vehicles, LLC, a subsidiary of Germany-based Rheinmetall defence, has teamed up with Textron Systems for U.S. Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) programme. American Rheinmetall Vehicles is forming a U.S. industry team that will consist of several leading U.S. defence companies, including Raytheon Technologies, who are coming together as “Team Lynx.”

Textron Systems will be a vital member of the team, bringing land systems technology development and production capabilities developed over decades as a combat platform provider to the U.S. armed forces. American Rheinmetall Vehicles will lead Team Lynx in offering the U.S. Army a next-generation solution for the OMFV programme that features a mature, game-changing platform with a purposeful, future-proof modular design.

“This teaming agreement brings together two of the world’s leading providers of defence industry solutions to offer the U.S. Army an OMFV that’s second to none. Textron Systems brings decades of experience in production with robotic capabilities that further enable Team Lynx to provide a transformational product to the U.S. Army”, said Matt Warnick, Managing Director, American Rheinmetall Vehicles.

The U.S. variant of the Lynx KF41 will enable the U.S. Army to fulfil one of its modernisation priorities – a next-generation combat vehicle that offers protection, mobility, growth, and lethality capabilities that will sustain overmatch for decades. The vehicle’s Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA), coupled with substantial growth potential in power, weight and volume, will enable the American Lynx KF41 variant to confront the challenges of the future battlefield.

Modular and Flexible

A key feature of the Lynx combat family is its versatility. The Lynx KF41 is a complete family of vehicles that utilises a common drive module and a flexible mission kit arrangement to allow any base vehicle to be configured as an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV), an armoured personnel carrier, a command vehicle, a recovery vehicle or an ambulance. Changing from one configuration to another can occur within eight hours. This system provides lifecycle cost savings due to base vehicle commonality, allowing customers to adjust force structures or develop new capabilities in an affordable and timely manner.

Enhancing the vehicle’s flexibility, the sub-systems of the Lynx KF41 are modular and adaptable. The Lynx KF41 features a digital backbone with a generic open architecture that allows easy integration of new mission systems, while the entire survivability system is modular and upgradable to allow the vehicle to cope with the highly adaptive threats faced on the battlefield. Different survivability kits are available for peacekeeping situations, counter-insurgency operations in urban terrain, and mounted combat against a peer.

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