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I'm Uh James Asen Price. I'm the
business development director for NMSUK.
It's been a wonderful transition to get
to serve NMSUK,
a newish company in the UK where we've
reestablished armored vehicle
manufacturing in the UK, including
sovereign rights over IP. And it's it's
a really exciting time. So uh indeed
behind me is Nomad which for me is
probably the most exciting vehicle of
the family really having taken decades
of experience on Dragon or heavier
vehicle. We have managed to take all
that engineering experience and make
Nomad 90% the level of protection of
Dragon but at 70% the weight. So not
only is it really the culmination of
lots of engineering experience. Now the
collaboration with the the the defense
science and technology laboratories DSTL
who shared their Vela's camouflage
design is is really also establishing
ourselves in close partnership with the
British government the mod and other
British organizations including
showcasing here AEI's track and cannon
which is manufactured in Ascot. Now, is
this for the UK market specifically? I
think it's for any market. It's the
culmination of lots of operational
experience at a weight class that
stretches to the heavy and stretches to
the light, but it achieves the full
breadth of what you would want from a
core common base platform that any army
could have it as its main single vehicle
type. So here we've got the the troop
carrying vehicle can carry 11 people yet
there's a pickup version which carries
five and then you can have a a number of
payloads in the back. Really the world
is your oyster to whatever you need. So
this isn't just for the UK market. Quite
rightly it's for everyone. From many
years ago we have been UK in DNA from
inside but now we're just pushing that
to the outside. And and what's easy to
see here is the protection levels and
and you know they're easily understood
through Stanag numbers. What's really
hard to communicate is just how good the
mobility of this vehicle is off-road.
And I think many people who are used to
armored mobility on four wheels have a
slightly antiquated view of what it
means where you can't go off-road etc.
The technology and the engineering in
Nomad is the culmination of all the
protection with a level of off-road
mobility that you you would only
otherwise see in buggies in very light
off-road vehicles. So really it enables
militaries to reapproach how they do
protected mobility not as moving from A
to B under some level of protection but
really being able to maneuver and and
what a co a term I've coined recently is
it's no longer protected mobility it's
protected maneuver. So the small amounts
of protection tradeoffs in reduced
levels of protection you expand 10 times
in your ability to disappear in the
environment to not set patterns and to
not be a target in the first place.
The dragon you have you can see here
you've highlighted all these systems.
quite right in that having proven itself
on operations over the last 15 years all
over the world and never has a single
person died or been seriously injured
due to an attack on this vehicle in its
entire history. The the logical next
step was to highlight the fact that this
isn't just a troop carrying vehicle. It
represents as does all our family the
core of a common base platform. So, a
military can choose the Dragon or the
Nomad and have it used from one end at
the simple uh troop carrying as a
capability right through to C2 counter
UAS and the more complex demands of very
contemporary warfare. So, what yes,
Dragon is a multi-roll vehicle. Second
point of the integration of these
systems, we are absolutely highlighting
our ability to integrate the most
complex, most advanced and most
demanding systems of our age. MBDA Sky
Warden is a very capable system
integrated Ksberg RS4. Again, the
Kongsburg family can be upgraded to RS6,
etc. But again, the integration of a
very complex system in and connected
through the Ultra GVA. Your final point
on counter UAS. Absolutely. The rush
currently for most armies is to close
the UAS vulnerability gap. Now, a lot of
these technologies have been developing
for a while, but they are at the cusp of
being very fieldable in the contemporary
environment. And today with Sky Warden
connected to a Consberg RS4, you start
to see what a credible hard kill counter
US capability will be. So um really
three points there. Number one,
we oper we cooperate with a number of
British businesses and the Atmas system
from Westcom was hitheru is is a very
well-known British firm which used to be
called BCB. So building on good British
manufacturing experience based in South
Wales now branded as Westcom, we worked
to develop and this was a combination of
the offers that Westcom had and atmiss
in their um camouflage system had
working with them. We came up with this
combination which I think is extremely
effective but it highlights the
cooperation between NMSUK and other good
strong UK businesses. A system like this
blends you really effectively into the
environment and that really is the huge
jump that when people say oh but there's
radars and all sorts of things. No, you
hide in the environment until you are
seen. And this means you are not seen.
full stop. So um our three core vehicle
offering Dragon, Nomad and Lurcher cover
the breadth of the 8 tons through to
2023 tons. So we cover the range of
vehicles that are required by the
militaries of all countries in some
shape or other. Uh our work is not
solely focused at any specific military.
We as NMSUK are very much focused on
exports. But ultimately where do I see
these vehicles being and being used?
Every army should have a core base
common or common base platform as its
core. I.e. you choose a single family of
vehicles and therefore you can then do a
lot of different employment but you only
train your engineers to fix one type of
engine, one type of suspension. And
that's where really the long-term
benefits in maintaining a fleet which is
really the the big cost of any fleet
here are maintainability reliability is
almost is I don't is I think unbeatable
in terms of low cost over the strategic
periods of 10 to 20 years but also if
you only have one set of vehicles one
set of instruction manuals one set of
training courses that's when the true
savings in 10, 15 years really come to
life.
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