Anyone heard of this before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_7wsaTkFgw

It was part of vehicles the US Army was looking at/testing for the Lightweight Recon Vehicle (LRV) program. The program was cancelled about 2 months ago and the Army decided to go with the JLTV instead

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/06/03/army-nixes-light-recon-vehicle-taps-humvee-replacement-mission.html

Interestingly (or not), today is the anniversary of the contract attribution to Oshkosh Defense.

It was a great idea. But you know it wasn't American so why bother. Would have saved a lot of $$$$$$$. Besides if it can be air dropped, the 82ND would love to have it as a simple APC to move people and gear.

The Army came out and said that the JLTV can meet the LRV requirements if it could mount a 30mm Cannon and sit two more additional men...they want to got a 6 vehicle platoon (6x36 Profile they called it) and the Vanilla JLTV would mean a 9 Vehicle Recon Platoon. But were other's happy with the product stating it fills 90% of the requirements as is.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/08/25/jltv-needs-bigger-gun-more-seats-scout-mission-maneuver-leaders.html

The US Army could have also went with the cancelled US-made Shadow RST-V which is RO/RO off a CH-46 so it could fit in a CH-47, I would assume. It's not really bulletproof in the plain version, but with add-on armor could be armored.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/shadow

The Wiesel 1 was tested by the US Army for the BCT idea so the US Army knows about the Wiesels.

There's a lot of nice concepts that the US Army tested. Unfortunately, not many were fielded.