The U.S. Army awarded a contract to General Dynamics Land Systems for the new Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle. Mobile Protected Firepower is a lightweight armored vehicle designed to provide direct ...

BAE System's Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle offering is an M8 Buford armored gun system with new capabilities. (Courtesy of BAE Systems) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is comfortable with the way its ...

The new maker of the U.S. Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) vehicle is the same company that produces the classic Abrams tank. Yet, the MPF vehicle developer, General Dynamics Land... It looks ...

In a press release, the U.S. Army announced that initial Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) prototypes arrived at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The preproduction MPF vehicles will be put through their ...

The Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles are in many ways smaller, lighter versions of the service’s M1 Abrams main battle tanks, and are designed to give light infantry and airborne units more ...

BAE Systems is updating an M8 Buford Armored Gun System with new capabilities for its prototype for the Army's Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle. (BAE Systems) WASHINGTON — Two competing light tank ...

Key Points and Summary - The M10 Booker began life as the Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower program, a “light tank” meant to give infantry brigades mobile, protected direct fire without the logistical ...

US Army soldiers are in the midst of a five-month assessment of two different ‘light tank’ prototypes – one version by BAE Systems and the other by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) – but the ...

The Army wants a light tank for infantry brigades that will be able to knock out bunkers and defeat enemy armored vehicles. On Tuesday, it awarded a $1.14 billion contract to General Dynamics Land ...

U.S. Army modernization officials are looking for defense firms capable of producing lightweight tanks to arm infantry brigades with more firepower for the future battlefield. Program Executive Office ...

Early last decade, worries over slackening demand for armored tanks put the fate of General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) tank plant in Lima, Ohio -- and the jobs of 900 workers -- at risk. Israel had just cut ...