12 October 2023
by Meredith Roaten
BAE Systems won a competition for the CATV with its BvS10 Beowulf in 2022. (Janes/Patrick Allen)
Five Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicles (CATVs) have been delivered to the 11th Airborne Division at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, on 1 October, Major General Brian Eifler, commanding general of the division, told
Janes
on 11 October.
The US Army’s CATVs – non-armoured variants of BAE Systems’ BvS10 Beowulf – are at Fort Wainwright’s Northern Warfare Training Center (NWTC) for operator training and testing.
As the 11th Airborne phases out the ageing small unit support vehicles (SUSVs), it is adding two snowmobiles per company until its CATVs are delivered, Maj Gen Eifler said in an interview on the sidelines of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2023 annual conference.
BAE Systems delivered the first two CATVs to the army for testing earlier in the boreal summer, the company told
Janes
on 25 September. Maj Gen Eifler confirmed an army announcement that the last three were delivered by the end of the fiscal year (FY).
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