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OCCAR reaches milestone with delivery of 400th Boxer armored vehicle to Dutch Army 21302171.
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Defense & Security News - OCCAR & The Netherlands
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OCCAR reaches milestone with delivery of 400th Boxer armored vehicle to Dutch Army
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During a BOXER Programme Review Meeting on 1st February 2017 in Bonn, a major milestone in the BOXER Programme was celebrated: The delivery of the 400th BOXER vehicle to the Royal Netherlands Army on 20th Dec. 2016, the Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'ARmement (OCCAR) announced on Feb. 10, 2017.
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 A Royal Netherlands Army's Boxer multirole armoured fighting vehicle in its engineering and logistics support variant (Credit: Dutch Ministry of Defense) |
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The vehicle was handed over by the manufacturer Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles Nederland B.V. at its facilities in Ede/NL and is an Armoured Engineer Group Vehicle (Geniegroeps voertuig/GNGP) variant. With this vehicle (plus the 401st delivered the same day) the Netherlands Army has 29 GNGP’s in-service.
The GNGP variant of BOXER is one of five variants to be delivered to the Netherlands Army and is used for the transport of troops and engineer group equipment. The crew of an Armoured Engineer Group consists of a driver, a commander and a gunner and it provides space for six soldiers including personal and additional equipment. The BOXER Programme is a major trilateral co-operation between Germany, the Netherlands and Lithuania managed by OCCAR. The total number of BOXER vehicles under contract increased to 696 due to the participation of the Republic of Lithuania in 2016. |
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