Golan promo video

While looking for additional background on Protected Vehicles' Golan MRAP, I ran across a promotional video.

Vehicles never get stuck in a promo, of course, but at least you get to see how the thing moves, and you can get a sense of its capabilities.



"Mr. Zippy" suggested that the armed forces aren't showing much interest in the Golan vehicle (appearing to suggest that the order for the Golan had been canceled as was the order for the PVI/Oshkosh Alpha. I have yet to see news of cancellation of the order for 60 Golans, and if I interpreted the contract announcement correctly, the vehicles should have been delivered by now. Mr. Zippy made the point that the Golan could not have performed very well if additional orders had not been made. That's possible, but it doesn't necessarily follow. The Alpha was offered through a partnership with Oshkosh, and no such partnership was formed for the production of the Golan, as far as I can tell, anyway.

The Golan is costs more than other MRAP models, and it's quite possible that production considerations have played a part in the fact that the vehicle is thus far a fringe player in the MRAP program.

The Alpha, certainly, failed some aspects of the test program, but the somewhat cryptic comments that accompanied its rejection could reflect vulnerabilities other than a failure to resist IED attacks.

It's too early to draw a conclusion about the Golan without more data, in other words.

I have read that the Golan was welcomed for the MRAP II program. Given that the MRAP II program carries higher specifications than the MRAP I program, it seems unlikely that the Golan is being shunned because of its IED protections.