The LAV III chassis were originally manufactured under a previous contract for LAV III TOW Under Armour (TUA) vehicles. Rheinmetall Canada of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, ...

LAV III LIGHT ARMOURED VEHICLE. Although its armour can withstand a hit by most RPGs, soldiers are often required to be exposed through its hatches to perform their jobs. Weight: 19,950 kg.

The LAV-III can travel up to 100 kilometres an hour. It is about three metres high and weighs almost 17,000 kilograms, according to statistics provided by the army. Article content.

The Colombian Army (COLAR) took delivery of an initial batch of 11 GDLS-C LAV-III armoured personnel carriers in mid-April, it has emerged.. COLAR will use the vehicle to form the first company of a ...

Ukraine will receive 25 more LAV III infantry fighting vehicles from Canada. Four flight simulators for F-16s will also be transferred, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says during the ...

Statistics collated by the Canadian Army show there have been a total of 16 LAV III rollovers after more than 15-million kilometres of driving since the vehicles were introduced in 1999.

Five soldiers were travelling at night in a LAV-III, when it rolled over at 6 p.m. local time on a highway that connects Kabul with Kandahar, near the village of Laghman. Private Braun Scott ...

Note that IVECO LAV III is an army multi-purpose SUV with an armored body, distinguished by its mobility and protection. It can gain speeds of up to 130 km/h. As of 2016, Norway had 170 such SUVs. As ...

The LAV played a key role in the Canadian mission in Afghanistan. A charity is re-purposing them to honour the 40,000 Canadian soldiers who served in the Afghan conflict and the 158 who gave their ...

Mialkowski said the LAV III has been the workhorse of the army for years and is safe. He said his unit is currently using hundreds of them. In 2014, Lt.-Col. Dan Bobbitt died when his LAV III ...

In 2011, DSCA brokered a deal to have GDLS-Canada sell 82 LAV-class light armored vehicles to Saudi Arabia for a total purchase price of $350 million -- or approximately $4.3 million per vehicle.