Bushmaster

Multi-Role Protected Vehicle

  • Protected vehicles
  • Mounted combat
  • Defence

The combat-proven Bushmaster protects up to 10 occupants with superior blast and ballistic protection and excellent off-road mobility.

Proven Performance

  1. Over 1,300

    Bushmasters manufactured in Australia

  2. Over 12 variants

    Troop Carrier, Ambulance, Command/ Electronic Warfare, Route Clearance, Mortar variants and more.

  3. 9 countries

    rely on Bushmasters

Future Ready

Bushmaster 4X4 is a 17-tonne protected vehicle, including a payload of more than 4 tons, designed to perform a diverse range of mission profiles. On-going design enhancements, a wide range of user selectable mission equipment and mature LTS through life support have ensured that this Next Generation PMV remains, not only relevent, but essential for the future of battlefield protected land mobility manoeuvre. 

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Bushmaster is a combat proven vehicle that is in service with the nine nations and has been successfully deployed on operations in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Pacific. On-going design enhancement, a wide range of user selectable mission equipment and mature through life support have ensured that Bushmaster continues to meet evolving customer requirements.

Features

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Highlight

Bushmaster evolves after successful tests of Counter-drone capability

A partnership between Thales Australia and Dedrone by Axon has seen the successful integration of Dedrone technology into the Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle (PMV) – adding a counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capability to the evolving protected mobility vehicle.

Key Figures

9
countries use the Bushmaster
1,250+
Bushmasters in service
over 20 years
in operation

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“The Bushmaster is deployed on high intensity operations in Ukraine right now. They have become an essential asset and are saving Ukrainian soldiers’ lives”

Vasyl Myroshnychenko