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The US Marine Corps has chosen the new wheeled armored vehicle

The company BAE Systems has won a tender to supply the US Marine Corps perspective floating armored 8x8. According to the signed contract, the company will supply the Commission until the end of the US 2019 of the year 60 pre-series machines, but first 2020 the year began mass producing them, write the American media.

Корпус морской пехоты США выбрал новый колесный бронетранспортер

This model is an armored personnel carrier jointly developed by BAE Systems with the Italian Iveco group on the basis of established Iveco armored VBA (modification of armored SUPERAV).

Armored casing welded from steel sheets of armor, It provides protection against small arms bullets and shell fragments. Armor is the possibility of amplification by setting the hinged armor. In the nose of the car to the left is the separation of management from the driver's place, handle it – Motor-transmissionnoe compartment (MTO) Flex-fuel diesel turbo engine 500-560 HP. (368-412 kW). The troop compartment is at the rear housing and accommodates 12 fully-equipped infantry. Embarkation and landing through stern doors or hatches in the roof of the housing. APC is equipped with a new remote-controlled uninhabited tower installation Oto Melara HITFIST Overhead Weapon Station, equipped with 30-mm automatic cannon ATK Mk 44, 7.62-mm machine gun coaxial and container launcher ATGM Rafael Spike.

Although the weight of the APC 24 tons, machine is a waterfowl. speed in 10 km / h on the water is achieved by using two propellers, while APC retains seaworthiness in rough to three points.

                          
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