Five M-ATV finalists identified

Bloomberg.com provides an update on the M-ATV contracts, indicating that the Force Dynamics (Force Protection/General Dynamics) Cheetah, the BAE Systems RG-33 variant, the Global Tactical Systems (BAE) Caiman variant , the Oshkosh "Sandcat" variant and the Navistar MXT variant have won the five initial M-ATV contracts offered by the Pentagon.

clipped from www.bloomberg.com

Force Dynamics and its associated companies, from what I can tell, have yet to make available a quality photograph of the updated Cheetah. I clipped one version of what I take to be a computer artist's rendition of the vehicle.

And I'll blurt out again that the BAE model supposedly based on the RG-33 looks suspiciously close to the BAE/Navistar JLTV design, dubbed the Valanx. Though perhaps the Valanx was in turn based on the RG-33 in some respect.