RG-33 4x4
RG-33 USSOCOM / RG-33 USSOCOM Plus
RG-33L 6x6 / RG-33L Plus 6x6
RG-33L Heavy Armored Ground Ambulance (HAGA) / RG-33L HAGA Plus
RG-33L USSOCOM Armored Utility Vehicle (AUV)
Panther Medium Mine Protected Vehicle (MMPV)
Program History
In February 2007, BAE Systems announced that it had received a $55.4 million delivery order for 90 vehicles to US Marines and Soldiers under the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program. This order would include 15 Category I RG-33 vehicles and 75 Category II RG-33L vehicles.
In June 2007, BAE Systems announced that it had received a $213.9 million delivery order from the US Marine Corps for 425 Category I RG-33 4x4 and 16 Category II RG-33L 6x6 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles. The delivery order also included an additional 16 Category II RG-33L HAGA 6x6 vehicles and an unspecified additional variant (possibly USSOCOM types).
In November 2007, BAE Systems announced that it had received 2 new delivery orders from the US Marine Corps totaling $322 million for 600 RG-33 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. Under the first delivery order, worth $278.4 million, BAE Systems would deliver 399 RG-33L vehicles and 112 RG-33L HAGA vehicles. The second delivery order, worth $44.3 million, called for the delivery of 89 RG-33 USSOCOM vehicles and vehicle sustainment Integrated Logistic Support.
In December 2007, BAE Systems announced that it had received 2 follow-on delivery orders worth a total of $1.1 billion under an existing US Marine Corps' Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) contract, which included, among other items, 600 RG-33L Category II vehicles. The RG33 order totaled $645 million to produce 600 survivability enhanced-versions of RG-33 Category II 6x6 MRAP vehicle, and to provide engineering change proposals and vehicle sustainment Integrated Logistics Support (ILS). Deliveries were expected to begin in May 2008 and be completed by June 2008.
In January 2008, BAE Systems announced that it had been competitively selected to develop and produce prototypes for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) II program, with the award of a $5.7 million contract from the MRAP Joint Program Office. BAE Systems would produce vehicles for both the 4x4 Category I and 6x6 Category II. The Cateogry II vehicles would be based on the RG-33L vheicle.
In January 2008, BAE announced that it had been selected by the US Army to be the sole producer of a new Medium Mine Protected Vehicle (MMPV), and had been awarded an initial $20 million delivery order under the $2.288 billion MMPV program. The MMPV contract envisioned production of up to 2,500 vehicles for use by US Army Engineers and Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams through 2015. The new MMPVs would be based on the RG-33L vehicle originally developed for the MRAP program. The MMPV vehicles were referred to as Panthers to differentiate them from other RG-33 types, and included engineering and explosive ordnance disposal specific subvariants.
In March 2008, BAE Systems announced that it had received 2 follow-on delivery orders for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles totalling $715 million from the U.S. Marine Corps. Under the contracts, the company will build and deliver, among other items, 447 RG-33 and RG-33L vehicles. The RG-33 order totaled $234 million to produce 3 RG-33 USSOCOM vehicles, 51 RG-33L HAGAs, and 393 RG-33Ls. Deliveries were expected to begin in August 2008 and be completed by November 2008.
In June 2008, BAE Systems announced that it had been awarded a $53 million contract modification from the US Marine Corps for 40 RG-33L USSOCOM Armored Utility Vehicle (AUV) Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. Work would be carried out at BAE Systems facilities in Santa Clara, California, York, Pennsylvania, and Fairfield, Ohio. Delivery of test vehicles would begin in December 2008 with production ending February 2009.
In July 2008, BAE Systems announced that it has received 4 delivery orders totaling $226 million from the US Marine Corp for engineering changes and spare parts to support Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. The first order was for engineering changes to 51 RG-33L HAGA and 393 Category II RG-33L 6x6 vehicles. This contract was awarded in March 2008 and was worth $162 million. The engineering changes were directly related to the vehicles mobility and survivability. The remaining 3 orders were for spare parts.
Also in July 2008, the Department of Defense announced that BAE Systems Land and Armaments, LP, Ground Systems Division, of York, Pennsylvania, had been awarded by Marine Corps Systems Command $60,252,370 for a delivery order under a previously awarded firms-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the purchase of 36 RG-33 United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, including technical insertion engineering change proposals (ECPs), 2 RG-33L MRAP vehicles, including technical insertion ECPs, and 2 RG-33L HAGA MRAP vehicles, including technical insertion ECPs. Work would be performed in York, Pennsylvania and was expected to be completed in March 2009.
In August 2008, BAE Systems announced that it had received a $43.5 million order from the US Marine Corps for 40 RG33 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, including: 36 RG-33 USSOCOM variants, 2 RG-33Ls, and RG-33L HAGAs. The Company would work with Letterkenny Army Depot (LEAD) to deliver the vehicles. Deliveries were scheduled to begin in January 2009 and run through May 2009. All vehicles in the order would be built to the MRAP Plus configuration with enhancements incorporated to improve performance and survivability. Engineering changes to improve the mobility and survivability capabilities of the SOCOM vehicles would be applied.
BAE Systems announced that it had finished production of the Caiman and RG-33 vehicles on 20 November 2008. The production line was subsequently closed, though BAE Systems did enter into discussions about potentially providin further Caiman or Caiman-based vehicles to the US military.
In September 2008, the Department of Defense annoucned that USSOCOM had awarded two delivery orders to the Raytheon Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the procurement of the Multiband Multimission Radio (MBMMR) Systems in support of the RG-31 and RG-33 USSOCOM vehicles types it then had in service.
In February 2009, The RG-33 IED Roller Interface Bracket prototype passed a fit test in February just months after engineers and employees at Tobyhanna Army Depot started working on the project. The system allowed the fitting of the Self-Protection Adaptive Roller Kit (SPARK) to the RG-33 series of vehicles. The system has been in service since March 2007, fitted to other MRAP types, the HMMWV family, and other vehicles.
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