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According to a contract released by the US Department of Defense on August 19, 2020
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General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, received
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a selling increased modification contract for the production of Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1
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American company General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems has developed the FLYER
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a family of lightweight tactical vehicles, including the FLYER-60 and the FLYER-72
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The FLYER-60 and FLYER-72 are based on the same modular chassis. The FLYER-60 has a seat for five soldiers, while the FLYER-72 has seats for nine people
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My name is Mike Akebuchi. I'm Director of Business Development for General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems
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mainly focused on vehicles. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems is a part of General Dynamics Combat Systems
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FLYER-72 is one of a variant of vehicles that we've produced. We're currently on contract with US SOCOM on what we refer to as Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1
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We also have provided vehicles to the US Army under a directive requirement
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called the Army Ground Mobility Vehicle, which is the vehicle that provides nine occupants to move on the battlefield tactically
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Our vehicles are different in that they provide an enhanced level of mobility
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tactical mobility, but at the same time, because of their dimensions and their weight
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allow them to be internally transported on a CH-47. Well, in addition to the internal transportability
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the vehicles were built around a set of requirements that required it to be mission-tailorable
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So through a set of kits, what we can do is reconfigure the vehicle
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to allow it to meet several different mission profiles. And so what you see here today is one example of those mission profiles
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It's the general purpose configuration. The same vehicle could accommodate seven people and be used tailored to an airfield seizure mission
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or it could be reduced in terms of vehicle occupants to three
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so there's more room for storage of supplies to conduct a longer range reconnaissance of, say, seven to ten days
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Likewise for the vehicle that seats nine, that's meant to move an infantry squad from point A to point B on the battlefield
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Same levels of mobility for all those mission profiles, it's just rapidly configurable through some kits
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