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These are useless for armies of developing countries...What the Bangladesh Army is looking for is what the US Marine Corps chose recently - Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) which is a Humvee replacement.
There were lots of competing designs, but in the end the OshKosh design won. This is a production standard USMC JLTV in M1280 General Purpose (GP) configuration, this example fitted with a deep fording kit and tire chains for winter snow use.
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This Oshkosh L-ATV configured as a JLTV, and equipped with M153 CROWS II remote weapon system integrated with M2 Browning .50 caliber Heavy machine gun.
What you need is a Level 6 Armoured vehicle capable pf transporting something like 8-10 troops.
Since the price tag of $250,000 per vehicle for the JLTV above might be too much for a country like Bangladesh, we can go with two other much less expensive (but also lightly armored) choices.
The Toyota Mega Cruiser, big brother of the Land Cruiser, or Japanese version of the HMMWV (Humvee).
Or the IVECO (Fiat) LMV (Light Multirole Vehicle) which is EXTREMELY popular
Whatever we get, we should try to get ToT with it. Only way to reduce dependence on foreign sources.
How bout this;Since the price tag of $250,000 per vehicle for the JLTV above might be too much for a country like Bangladesh, we can go with two other much less expensive (but also lightly armored) choices.
The Toyota Mega Cruiser, big brother of the Land Cruiser, or Japanese version of the HMMWV (Humvee).
Or the IVECO (Fiat) LMV (Light Multirole Vehicle) which is EXTREMELY popular
Whatever we get, we should try to get ToT with it. Only way to reduce dependence on foreign sources.