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2011年阿布扎比防務展：美國L-3公司和英國全機動車公司團隊展出6×6裝甲車輛
2011-02-22
 
    ［據美國《防務新聞》網站2011年2月21日報導］    美國L-3通信公司和英國全機動車（Total Mobility Vehicles，TMV）公司於2011年2月20日開幕的阿布扎比防務展上聯合展出了一種集成了感測器和顯示設備的新型6×6車輛平臺。
 
    兩公司組成的團隊攜手展示了大量以加強的指揮和控制網路為基礎的能力。L-3公司早在去年就在美軍的潛在用戶中部署了一種配有強化指揮和控制網路的虛擬版本的通用車輛。展示L-3公司的車輛網路能力的最好方式是在一個軋機試驗臺上，並且與TMV公司新設計的車輛得到完美的結合。與TMV公司的這次合作並不意味著L-3公司進入了平臺業務領域。但這確實展示了L-3公司在集成系統領域的能力，其中包括許多在一個牢固的開放式構架網路內部的技術。L-3公司展會的市場行銷檔中宣稱加強的指揮和控制網路是第一個真正運作成熟的車輛網路解決方案。在有需要的情況下，該方案能夠支持美國的技術出口自由限制。
 
    TMV公司為阿布扎比防務展帶來一個為特種部隊配置的車輛，L-3公司的加強指揮和控制網路為電子骨幹提供了基準套件能力，包括顯示器、資料接收終端、視覺增強、時間記錄儀和電子干擾機。TMV公司的其他類似于裝甲人員運輸車的6×6車輛配備了包括遙控武器站、桅杆上安裝的感測器套件、武器瞄準和光電/紅外系統。TMV公司是萊蘭技術中心的一個分支，已經在成熟的高防護、高機動性6×6車輛上找到切入點，並能夠在2012年第一季度向客戶交付一個完整的集成整車平臺。TMV公司的車輛在進軍軍事領域的同時，也能夠應用到類似邊境巡邏和緊急回應領域。此外，該公司的4×4和8×8車輛也處於設計階段。
（北方科技資訊研究所 孫毅）

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IDEX: L-3, TMV Team Up On 6x6 Armored Vehicle
By ANDREW CHUTER
Published: 20 Feb 2011 11:59      
ABU DHABI - A David-and-Goliath pairing of L-3 Communications and armored vehicle minnow Total Mobility Vehicles (TMV) made their debut together Feb. 20 on the opening day of IDEX 2011, marrying a new 6x6 platform with an integrated network of sensors and displays.

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U.S. systems giant L-3 is teaming with the British vehicle maker to showcase an array of capabilities based on what it calls its Ruggedized Command and Control Network.

L-3 demonstrated a virtual version of a generic vehicle, deploying its RCCN system to potential customers in the U.S. last year.

This time it has gone one better, and it brought the real deal in the shape of the imposing TMV vehicle fitted out with its systems and products to IDEX 2011, which runs through Feb. 24.

The "best way to demonstrate the company's vehicle networking capabilities is on a rolling test bed and the newly designed TMV vehicle is the perfect fit," said Pete Alexander, business development director for L-3's San Diego-based Ruggedized Command & Control Solutions business.

The tie-up with TMV doesn't mean L-3 is getting into the platform business. But Alexander said it does show L-3's ability to integrate systems from across the marketplace, including many in-house technologies, in a rugged open architecture network.

"We are vehicle agnostic and equipment agnostic; we are not vertically aligned; and we can play in the field as a neutral, trusted supplier," he said.

Alexander said some of the vehicle primes have been bringing equipment capability back in-house in recent times - and in doing so they "have pigeon holed themselves" to provide only what solutions they can offer from their own product ranges.

L-3 marketing literature at the show claims the RCCN is the "first operationally proven, truly agnostic vehicle network solution."

Alexander said L-3 can supply solutions free of U.S. technology export restrictions, if required.

TMV brought a special forces-configured vehicle to IDEX, with L-3's RCCN providing the electronic backbone for a baseline suite of capabilities that includes displays, data receiver terminals, vision enhancers, event recorders and electronic jammers.

Other 6x6 versions of the TMV, like an armored personnel carrier, could include remote weapons stations, mast mounted sensor suites, weapon sights and electro optical/infrared systems.

For TMV, the association with L-3 "demonstrates to potential customers the ease of integrating top-line systems into our vehicle and helps people recognize our ambitions in the marketplace," said John Stretton, the British company's managing director.

TMV, an outgrowth of the Leyland Technical Centre, has matured the high protection, high mobility 6x6 vehicle to the point where it could deliver a fully integrated machine to a customer in the first quarter of 2012, Stretton said.

It's not just the military on which TMV is focusing, Stretton said. Applications like border patrol and emergency response vehicles are also in the company's sights. And 4x4 and 8x8 versions of the vehicle also are on the drawing board.