United Defense is a United States defense contractor with its corporate headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. It produces tracked vehicles and gun systems. The company started as a division of the agricultural machine business, Food Machinery Corporation (FMC), when they won a US government contract to build LVTs and became a weapon manufacturer during World War II. FMC later spun the defense buisness off as its own company. From 1997 until 2004 it was owned by the Carlyle Group.

United Defense vehicles include the

• M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle
• M3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
• M109 Paladin
• M113 Family
• Crusader

See also: Bofors Defence

External links

• United Defense http://www.uniteddefense.com/ - Official site