"A few more details.The new vehicle will be produced by a joint Rheinmettal-Romanian firm (50/50) called Romanian Land Systems.The Romanian Moreni factory will be split in 2,one part producing vehicles and the other assuring maintenance.
The new vehicle will be called AGILIS 8X8 and will incorporate Romanian technologies from the SAUR prototypes and German tech.
Unlike the Boxer,it will be an amphibious vehicle."
So,
1. It is also an amphibious vehicle ( Romanian version of German Boxer vehicle )
2. They will provide maintenance for the vehicle up-to 2055
3. The selected platform will be used to produce different type of vehicles..ambulance, mobile mortar, command and control & cbrn (Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense ) variants.
4. It seems a good value for money, u can mount different types of weapon system--remote controlled station, Anti tank guided weapon along with 12 mm MG.
BD source its vehicles from different country...A couple of years ago, in the victory day parade i noticed command and control vehicle from China, APC from Turkey,Ukraine (Lazar), Recovery vehicle from Russia, armored ambulance from China.....i think BD can follow this kind of deal ...then there will be a commonality among all type of platforms...besides our engineers will gain valuable experience from joint production...cbrn vehicles can also be used in Rooppur nuclear plant...If we need sophisticated vehicles/APCs/IFVs we can buy them from other countries..What i am trying to say that we should give more focus on indigenization.....our police, navy, rab can also procure them if local production takes place..we can send them to un mission too...MM made a good APC deal with ukrain...which are better armed...indonesia uses them ( BTR 4) too...