CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- QinetiQ Australia has started second-stage fatigue testing of the Hawkei protected vehicle ordered by the Australian military.
The eight-week testing program of the Thales Australia vehicle is being conducted on behalf of the Australian Department of Defense and involves attaching a Hawkei production-level chassis to a 5 x 8m test rig for a series of tests to validate the predicted life of the structure.