Navistar Defense scores USMC order

June 13, 2011
Navistar Defense, a division of commercial truck maker Navistar, recently booked a $357-million delivery order for an additional 471 International-branded MaxxPro Dash vehicles with DXM independent suspension from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command

Navistar Defense, a division of commercial truck maker Navistar, recently booked a $357-million delivery order for an additional 471 International-branded MaxxPro Dash vehicles with DXM independent suspension from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command.

This order follows a May delivery order for 250 MaxxPro Dash Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) ambulances, Navistar Defense said.

The OEM added that it will build these 471 new units at its Garland, TX, and West Point, MI, plants, with deliveries to the Marines expected to be completed by September this year.

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