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SCOUT’S HONOUR
Biggest single contract for AFVs for the British Army since the 1980s
The Scout Specialist Vehicle (Scout SV) has been selected by the British army in a landmark deal. The vehicle provides a step-change in the armoured fighting vehicle capability being delivered to the British Army and was developed as part of the Future Rapid Effects System’s Specialist Vehicle Programme of the UK.
It is the biggest single order placed by Britiain’s Ministry of Defence for AFVs in three decades.
The new Scout SV vehicle is to replace the CVR Scimitar light tank currently in service with the British Forces. Scout SV has been developed at General Dynamics UK’s AFV design and engineering centre in Oakdale, South Wales. It maintains the UK’s sovereign expertise in this important capability.
This variant can carry a crew of three. Scout SV is one of the first four planned variants to be deployed by the British Army. The others are the Recovery and Repair and the PMRS infantry carrier variant that can carry up to eight soldiers and a crew of two.
The Scout SV programme includes six variants: Scout Reconnaissance, Protected Mobility Reconnaissance Support (PMRS), Command and Control, Engineering Reconnaissance, Repair, and Recovery. Each Scout SV platform variant will be a highly-agile, tracked, medium-weight armoured fighting vehicle, providing British troops with state-of-the-art best-in-class protection.
Scout SV vehicles are developed upon a highly-adaptable and capable common base platform, maximising commonality in mobility, electronic architecture and survivability that ensures the British Army has a family of world-class platforms.
Each Scout SV platform variant has extensive capabilities, including acoustic detectors, a laser warning system, a local situational awareness system, an electronic countermeasure system, a route marking system, an advanced electronic architecture and a high performance power pack.
The Scout SV family of vehicles has growth inherently built in. With an upper design limit of 42 tonnes of driveline capability, scalable and open electronic architecture and a modular armour system, it has enormous potential to combat future threats and incorporate new technology throughout the lifespan of the platform.
As a result, Scout SV provides the kind of growth capability that the user will need to face the uncertain challenges of Future Force 2020 and beyond. SCOUT SV will replace the less capable CVR(T), providing broad utility throughout the balanced Army 2020 force across all operations.
The Scout SV is a modified military off-the-shelf (MMOTS) vehicle. Assessment of potential reconnaissance vehicles from BAE Systems and General Dynamics UK for the SV programme was started in November 2008.
General Dynamics’ Scout was selected as the preferred bidder, against BAE Systems’ CV90 in 2010. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) awarded a £500m contract to develop seven prototypes of the ASCOD SV - three Scout, repair and recovery versions and an infantry carrier variant - for the demonstration phase.
General Dynamics UK was awarded £3.5 billion to deliver 589 SCOUT SV platforms to the British Army in 3 September 2014.
The platforms, consisting of six variants, will be delivered to the British Army between 2017 and 2024, alongside the provision of initial in-service support and training, and will serve at the heart of the Armoured Infantry Brigade structure.
This contract directly safeguards or creates up to 1,300 jobs across the programme’s UK supply chain, with 300 of these at General Dynamics UK’s Oakdale site.
Scout SV represents the future of armoured fighting vehicles for the British Army, providing best-in-class protection and survivability, reliability and mobility and all-weather intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and recognition capabilities. Its range of variants will allow the British Army to conduct sustained, expeditionary, full-spectrum and network-enabled operations with a reduced logistics footprint. Scout SV can operate in combined-arms and multinational situations across a wide-range of future operating environments.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: “I’m delighted that on the eve of the NATO Summit, we can announce the biggest single contract for AFVs for the British Army since the 1980s. These new vehicles are testament to the world class engineering skills in South Wales and across the UK, helping to create the army’s first fully-digitalised armoured vehicles.
“Not only will they be crucial in helping to keep Britain safe, they will also underpin nearly 1,300 jobs across the UK and showcase the strength of the UK’s highly skilled defence sector. With the second-largest defence budget in NATO, meeting NATO’s two per cent of GDP spending target and investing in new capabilities to deal with the emerging threats we are ensuring Britain’s national security, staying at the forefront of the global race and providing leadership within NATO.”
Secretary of State for Defence, the Michael Fallon, added: “Today’s multi-billion pound contract is fantastic news for our soldiers in providing them with the most technologically advanced and versatile AFVs to overcome future threats. This is the biggest single order placed by the MoD for armoured vehicles for around 30 years and is an important part of the investment we are making to keep Britain safe. It is also excellent news for the supply chain of this state-of-the-art vehicle and will sustain 1,300 engineering jobs across the UK in key defence industries.”Kevin Connell, Vice President General Dynamics UK - Land Systems, has spoken of the importance of the contract.
“We are delighted that the UK MoD has awarded us this important contract. Scout SV provides essential capability to the British Army to allow it to dominate the battle space for years to come and it secures thousands of jobs right across the UK for at least the next decade. General Dynamics UK and our partners have worked hard over the last four years to develop a world-leading vehicle, and we will maintain that same work ethic to deliver 589 Scout SV platforms to the British Army on time and on budget.”
The SCOUT Reconnaissance variant
The Scout Reconnaissance variant will be the medium-weight core of the British Army’s deployable intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) capability. It enables the soldier to be at the point of collection of accurate all-weather commander information within a network-enabled digitised platform.
It provides commanders with a survivable and capable ground mounted manned reconnaissance (GMMR) platform, which gives them the flexibility to perform a range of roles across the spectrum of conflict.
The Scout Reconnaissance variant’s primary role is to provide accurate and timely information to support decision making at all levels. It integrates a range of leading edge technologies to provide an optimised survivable, lethal and agile ISTAR platform.
The panoramic primary sight provides advanced all-weather imaging technology capability, which allows the Scout reconnaissance variant to find, engage and target at far greater ranges than the current UK Ministry of Defence core legacy platforms.
A sophisticated, neatly packaged electronic architecture makes it the first fully-digitised land platform that is able to seamlessly integrate both current and future open system ISTAR and communication products.
Enhanced and modular survivability technologies ensure it will survive both current and future threats. Lethality is provided by the 40mm cannon integrated into a revolutionary, user-defined, fightable turret. Where the operation dictates, a fully stabilised remote weapons station can be fitted to the turret instead of the primary sight.
Design
The design of Scout SV is based on the Austrian Spanish Cooperation Development (ASCOD) Specialist Vehicle. All variants have an open electronic architecture design.
It is expected to offer a much reliable and modern platform for better protection, situational awareness, fire power and mobility for manned reconnaissance missions.
The ultra-quiet auxiliary power unit of the vehicle will offer quiet and concealed loitering. The rugged body will enable 24x7 surveillance operations. The vehicle can identify and detect helicopters, UAVs and decoy systems.
It has a 1.7m diameter turret ring for providing the crew with a favourable working environment. It will have a normal combat weight of 34t, which can be increased to about 42t to accommodate new technology and component upgrades. The vehicle is expected to have a life of 30 years.
Companies and contractors
The development of Scout SV involves about 24 UK and other European based suppliers. Lockheed Martin UK was contracted to provide the turret for the vehicle. Thales UK will provide a full optronics suite based on its Orion technology. The suite will include sights for commander and gunners, reconnaissance and targeting and short-range sensors for situational awareness.
Raytheon UK was chosen for providing its chassis power switch node for the vehicle, in January 2012. The display systems will be supplied by Barco. ViaSat will design and develop the onboard encrypted data storage systems.
The Scout vehicle is designed to provide most advanced ground-based intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) capabilities. It will reduce the workload on crew with its doubled target stand-off range, fast and accurate automated search, detection and tracking.
The detection and identification ranges of the vehicle will be twice to that of the currently operational battle group thermal imager (BGTI) system. An array of sensors and systems are integrated with the crew stations using general vehicle architecture (GVA)-complaint 20Gbs/sec Gigabit Ethernet intelligent open architecture. It allows capturing, storing, manipulating, analysing of about 6TB of data for the crew. The captured still and moving images can also be shared in real time.
The electronic architecture and integration of Bowman Tactical Communications and other C4 systems on-board enable transmission of the data to secure C4I systems of other allied forces such as the US Army.
Weapons and protection
The Scout vehicle’s turret is armed with a CTAI cased telescoped (CT40) cannon system, 7.62mm co-axial machine gun and electrically operated grenade launchers. The vehicle is designed for blast protection equal to Mastiff levels.
It will have all-round modular protection, far-target thermal sights, sensors for local situational awareness and acoustic detection. It also offers a 360 degree remote weapon system for urban and mountainous combat.
The vehicle has seven pairs of tracked road wheels on either side. Its wide track and high power-to-weight ratio will enable it to improve dramatically on the all-terrain manoeuvrability of the CVR 2 to effectively perform ground-based ISTAR operations.
A 600kW MTU 8V 199 TE21 engine and Renk 256B automatic transmission system, dual rate suspension system, seven wheel-station running gear give the vehicle a top speed of 70km/h. The transmission is rated at 45t allowing the vehicle to meet different variant configurations without any major upgrades.
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