“That’s why you won’t see them at the #AUSA2026 Annual Meeting this year,” American Rheinmetall said in a social media statement. “The vehicles are exactly where they should be, proving performance, reliability, and Rheinmetall level execution in real Army testing environments.”
The company itself will be there. It said Team Lynx, the industry group it leads, would be at Booth 2825 to talk about the vehicle’s progress and take questions.
First of eight prototypes delivered
American Rheinmetall said on Sept. 1 that it had handed the first of eight Lynx XM30 prototypes to the Army, which marked the start of government developmental and performance testing. The other seven are due later this year and are earmarked for operational unit training.
The Lynx XM30 has a modular design, an open architecture and a hybrid-electric powertrain, which the company says is a first. American Rheinmetall is the prime contractor and works with Textron Systems, Raytheon, L3Harris Technologies, Allison Transmission and Anduril Industries.
XM30 program
The XM30 program is meant to give the U.S. Army a next-generation infantry fighting vehicle that will serve for decades. It has just moved into prototype testing, and the Army will have to choose between two designs.
Defence Industry Europe recently reported that the Army is running live-fire tests of both vehicles. One is the Lynx XM30, the American version of the Lynx infantry fighting vehicle developed by German defense group Rheinmetall.
Hungary and Romania have already ordered the Lynx, and a number have been delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Italian army’s new infantry fighting vehicle will also be based on it.
The other contender is the Wolf XM30. It is built by the U.S. company General Dynamics.
