Came across this article arguing against the entire Land 400...

Came across this article arguing against the entire Land 400 Phase 3 project from a strategic perspective. It did make one interesting point relevant to selection:

"On a narrower issue, one of the two final bidders for this army project is Germany’s Rheinmetall and the other is Korea’s Hanwha. I wonder if the evaluation process is assessing the implications for the project of the radical change in Germany’s defence policy and investment announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz three days into Russia’s war. He launched an urgent effort to reverse the decline in the German military’s capabilities, starting with an injection of €100 billion into the defence budget.

It may be that the Bundeswehr, unlike the Australian Army, understands that investing large amounts in large numbers of armoured vehicles now makes far less sense than it might have in earlier decades. But it’s equally likely that pro-armour advocates and German industry will convince Germany’s government to spend some of this new money on German-built armoured vehicles—at least a major land war in Europe has credibility as a scenario.

It’s very likely that Germany’s design and production capacity and all of Rheinmetall’s supply chains will have to meet their home government’s needs as the first priority, with other customers being important but less critical. We know that supply-chain pressures and disruption are real in our disrupted world. So, while the Land 400 evaluation team might have thought its work was complete, it must now do a detailed assessment of the implications of this radical shift in German policy and security for at least one of the possible providers. Not to do so will affect both the credibility and the viability of any result."

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/now-is-not-the-time-to-buy-lots-of-heavy-armoured-vehicles/