This upcoming week at Eurosatory 2022 in Paris, Global Clearance Solutions (GCS) will launch its new “Specialist Engineering Solutions” (SES). The philosophy behind SES is based on modularity and adaptability to provide operational and tactical advantages to our customers by upgrading their protected vehicles.

Integration to the host vehicle is made via the GCS Quick Coupler Adapter (QCA) which is suitable for both wheeled and tracked vehicle categories. The QCA is suitable for different attachments, easily adaptable to our customers’ host vehicles and scalable according to the required vehicle weight categories.

In this way, the host vehicle can be quickly adapted to undertake minefield breaching, scatterable mine clearance, surface laid mine clearance, Counter-IED, anchoring and earth-moving activities to enhance operational flexibility.

GCS will be the key supplier to General Dynamics European Land Systems–Mowag (GDELS–Mowag) for the standardised interface Quick Coupler Adapter (QCA) for all front-mounted attachments, Dozer Blade and Dozer Blade Manipulator (DBM). Several rounds of intensive testing were undertaken with GCS, GDELS–Mowag and the Swiss Armed Forces to bring the solution to a level which is perfectly suited to face current and future threats and challenges. Delivery is planned from 2023 to 2026.

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Hagen Fischer, who oversees product development at GCS, notes that this project is a perfect illustration of GCS’s philosophy of modularity and adaptability: DBM being a 2 in 1 multifunctional attachment which can perform a wide range of general military engineering tasks.