Saab vice president Brian Lawrence says that his pods are built to attach to legacy Army vehicles, like Abrams tanks or Humvees, and Saab wants to be integrated onto the Army's truck of the future, the Ground Combat Vehicle. That is, if the Ground Combat Vehicle - expected to cost about $14 million per truck - survives imminent budget cuts.Īnd if the system works. The Mongoose is a dumb round, since outfitting a countermeasure for a $500 RPG with a GPS system would cost up to $50,000 per missile. And it sounds like there are a lot of moving parts between the sensor, the trajectory determination and the Mongoose firing. Saab anticipates its system will cost between $200,000 and $500,000 per truck, which a cash-strapped Army might not be able to afford. "You can't afford not to protect these vehicles, and more importantly, the people inside," Lawrence says.
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