Interesting that the competitors are going with two modified existing vehicles (Italian and Singaporean) instead of clean-sheet-of-paper designs. Of course nowadays, designing major systems from scratch seems to be a roll of the dice. More often than not these seem to result in expensive failures.

Hell, the foreigners seem to be able to make these things work. Either their requirements are reasonable or their engineers are better than ours. Maybe both?

http://breakingdefense.com/2017/03/s...ests-to-begin/