BAE System's CV90 Mark IV is the latest upgrade of a 25-year-old vehicle widely used in Europe; the Rheinmetall-Raytheon Lynx is an all-new design, although individual components have a good track record; but the General Dynamics Griffin III is in the middle, combining a new gun and new electronics with the time-tested chassis from the European ASCOD family.
General Dynamics offers a refined version of the upgunned Stryker, hoping to sway the Army's choice of lethality upgrade for the 8x8 vehicles come January.
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
With a proven hull and a cutting-edge gun, General Dynamics' Griffin III might just hit the Army's sweet spot between innovative and proven.
WASHINGTON: It looks like a tank, drives on tracks like a tank, fires 120 mm shells at several times the speed of sound like a tank — but don’t call it a tank. The General Dynamics “Griffin” is a kind of concept car on steroids, a demonstration of existing technologies that could be quickly fit […]