Light/Ultra-light Military Utility vehicle Thread

Miragedriver

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The URO VAMTAC (Vehículo de Alta Movilidad Táctico, "High Mobility Tactical Vehicle") is a
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four-wheel drive military vehicle manufactured by the
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. It is similar in appearance and design to the
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of the
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. More than 2,000 of the vehicles have been delivered to the
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. Several other countries operate the VAMTAC as well, and it has seen service most recently in Afghanistan. The vehicle comes in two models, named I3 and S3, and has several configurations.

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TerraN_EmpirE

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on May 29, 2015 at 2:08 PM

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A very
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competing to build
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just got a big lift from a heavy hitter. “This levels the playing field,”
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president Shane Sterling told me of his firm’s new alliance with
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. “We as a company now have the industrial might behind us to produce our product.”

That might comes from Michigan-based
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, which started out building firetrucks but
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during the post-9/11 wars, working mainly on
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vehicles. The MRAPs could survive most roadside bombs but proved too heavy and awkward to maneuver offroad. The Army and Marines want to replace them with a nimbler but still well-protected
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, weighing in at a relatively modest 14,000 lbs. But the Army has also decided it needs something much lighter to
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with the Airborne: a 4,500-lb Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle, an unarmored nine-man transport, and a modestly better-armored Light Reconnaissance Vehicle.

Vyper Adamas has built small numbers of innovative vehicles for special operations customers they decline to name. In the competition to build the ULCV and LRV for the so-called Big Army, however, they were dwarfed by competitors like
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and Boeing. It turns out they had a plan for that problem all along: marry their design team to Spartan’s manufacturing power.

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“It says a lot about our product and reputation to have a company like Spartan behind us,” Sterling told me. “They have won
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in the past five years for innovation and their ability to produce products on time.”

“As a smaller company, we are extremely nimble, with the ability to design, develop, and now implement, on an extremely large scale, the numbers of vehicles that might be asked of us,” Sterling said. “
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recently alluded to the fact that
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to bid and compete on contacts. Well, Vyper is that company.”
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Miragedriver

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The Pars armored family frows with the NSSF Turkish Savunma Sistemleri

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(Defensa.com) The Turkish producer of armored NSSF Savunma Sistemleri (owned by the private Turkish conglomerate Nurol Holding and the US subsidiary of BAE Systems) extended family Pars wheeled armored with the development of the 4x4 configuration. The multitasking highly mobile amphibious vehicle was designed for surveillance missions on the battlefield, anti-tank combat and command and control operations. It has a low thermal signature and a water-resistant hull. The Pars 4x4 offers a weight / power ratio of 25-30 horsepower per ton, a length of 5 m relationship., A width of 2.5 m., A height of 1.9 m., A maximum road speed 120 km / h and a range of up to 700 kilometers.

The vehicle is available as a command and control station with remote control weapons armed with a heavy machine gun of 12.7 mm., Tactical patrol a protected weapons station operated manually with a machine gun 12.7 mm. 7.62 mm machine gun. or 40mm automatic grenade launcher .; recognition equipped with an electro-optical sensor mounted on a telescopic mast and anti-tank launcher equipped with a single station or guided missiles, armed with guided Roketsan OMTAS KBP Instrument Design Bureau and Kornet-E missiles.

As standard equipment, the Pars 4x4 incorporates a helmet with ballistic protection against landmines, a diesel engine, an automatic transmission, an independent hydropneumatic suspension, fumigant grenade launchers; Ultrajet amphibians propellers type MJP Waterjets, protected for the driver, commander and combatants, tow rope, adjustable pressure system tires, cameras day and night observation, a projector lighting, locking differential settlements, and the antilock system assisted hydraulic brakes.

As motorization, the company offers the Caterpillar, Deutz, Cummins and Steyr Motors manufacturers. The company plans to build the first prototype in 2016. It comes as air transportable by C-130H Hercules, C-17 Globemaster III, C-5 Galaxy, A400M Atlas and CH-47 Chinook. Officially launched in May 2015 in the form of full-scale model, the 4x4 Pars was seen with remotely operated weapon station SARP (Advanced Remote weapon Stabilized Platform) Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret armed with a heavy machine gun 12.7 mm. and equipped with the electro-optical sensor ATS-40 from the same company.

NSSF Savunma Sistemleri Pars also offers 6x6 and 8x8 configurations, in various versions, including the transportation of troops, infantry fighting vehicle recognition and CBRN. 8x8 configuration was acquired by Malaysia and has been operational since December 2014 where 257 units were delivered in 12 versions. The vehicle, designated locally Gempita, partially produced in Malaysia by DRB-HICOM Defence Technologies (Deftech).

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TerraN_EmpirE

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Special Ops Forces Fuel Demand for Ultralight Vehicles
July 2015

By Jon Harper

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When it comes to ground vehicles, U.S. Special Operations Command is embracing the notion that lighter is better. SOCOM wants platforms that can traverse difficult terrain and deliver special operations forces to their targets quickly, sacrificing armor protection for greater mobility.

Toward that end, the command will jettison much of its heavy fleet, according to officials.

“We’re basically on a mission to divest ourselves of most of those vehicles,” said Duke Dunnigan, deputy program manager of the family of special operations vehicles at SOCOM. “We’re looking at more ultralight and depending more on speed and agility versus armoring up so much that the suspensions don’t last long and I can’t negotiate the terrain.”

The command has about 3,000 vehicles in its inventory. By the middle of next year, the number of mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles and their off-road variant, the M-ATV, will drop from 519 to 280. Those remaining in the fleet will be reconditioned through 2016, according to Dunnigan.

Armor is also being removed from other vehicles at Letterkenny Army Depot in Pennsylvania.

“We’re taking all our up-armored heavy Humvees and we’re basically sending them through the line and they’re coming out ultralight vehicles,” Dunnigan said at this year’s Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida.

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Miragedriver

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Iveco and Avibras finalists for Light Armored Vehicles for the Brazilian Army

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(Defensa.com) Manufacturing Directorate within the Department of Science and Technology Brazilian Army, opened the negotiation phase and guidance for the submission of a final technical and commercial proposal for the nationalization process of obtaining Armored Vehicle Multitasking Lightweight Wheel (VBMT-LR). Avibras companies Divisão Air and Naval S.A. and Iveco Latin America LTDA are selected to appear and receive the necessary instructions to submit final proposals, on 18 August, and withdraw the draft contract. Proposes Iveco Light Multirole Vehicle (LMV) and Avibras the Tupi, based on the vehicle Sherpa Light Scout Renault Trucks Defense. The program includes the purchase of 186 vehicles.

4x4 armored-LR program of VBMT
VBMT-LR The program is part of the Strategic Project -Guarani Army (PEE Guarani) also integrates 6x6 vehicles VBTP-MR (VIATURA Armored Transport Pessoal - Half of Rhodes) and VBR-MR vehicles (Armored VIATURA reconhecimento - Medium Rhodes) 8x8 reconnaissance 105mm cannon tower. VBMT-LR The program includes the purchase of 180 4x4 vehicles in three batches, the first one of 32 units and then two of 77 units each. The program also includes the nationalization of production, the provision of integrated logistics services, training and spare parts, and the integration of remotely controlled weapons station REMAX (protected by machine gun Automated X) ARES Aerospace and Defense, and the station protected weapons Plattmounts MR550 manually operated.

Four manufacturers of armored vehicles responded, as reported in defensa.com last January at the request for proposals issued by the Diretoria of Fabricação (DF) of the Brazilian Army (EB) in October 2014 under the program VBMT-LR (VIATURA Multitarefa-Light Armored Rhodes or Multiproposito- Light Armored Vehicle Wheel). The procedure responded Iveco Latin America with armored wheeled armored LMV (Light Multi-role Vehicles), Iveco Defence Vehicles, Avibras the vehicle Tupi, a local version of the Sherpa Light Scout Renault Trucks Defense (RTD), BAE Systems Land Systems South Africa with RG32M LTV (Light Tactical Vehicle) and a consortium of AM General of the United States and Israel Plasan the Modernized Light Tactical Vehicle (MLTV).

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The four vehicles were tested in 2014 at the Centre for Validation Army (CAEx) and approved by the end of that year through the issuance of the evaluation report. Among the basic requirements, the vehicle will have to offer a maximum weight and 8 tons, a maximum height of 2.20 meters, a maximum road speed of 90 km / h and a range 500 kilometers, five military transport, and survive the impact a mine of up to 6 kg and piercing ammunition of 7.62x51 mm.

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) Brazilian Army will be the organization responsible for contract with the chosen company. The first vehicles will be delivered in six months after signing the contract. The acquisition process by DCT included the phases of evaluation, qualification and tender process.

The first 32 vehicles will be delivered directly by the manufacturer, the following 77 assembled in Brazil by transferring parts or assemblies of CKD (Completely Knock Down), and the rest mass produced in Brazil with a minimum of 60% of costs nationalization and parts. All 186 vehicles will be delivered in multi-purpose for use by infantry and cavalry mechanized version. In the future you may acquire additional vehicles possibly mortar carrier versions, anti-tank, command post, forward observer, electronic warfare and radar.

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The Tiuna UR-53AR50 is a Venezuelan multipurpose military vehicle, presented by
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and assembled by Venezolana de Vehículos para la Defensa. The assembly plant is located at
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,
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,
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. The Tiuna was created to compete with the American-made Humvee, which was first shown to the public on July 20, 2004.

Production vehicles are built with the support of companies that bring vehicle parts for its construction and co-ops that work at the Fort Tiuna Assembly Plant (VVD Headquarters). This vehicle is designed and built in Venezuela.


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Exploration Vehicle for Argentine paratroopers

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(defensa.com) Thirty light vehicles Exploration and Recognition Polaris 4x4 MRZR-4, produced by the American company Polaris Defense, arrived in the country. They will be there and distributed in Parachute Regiment Air Assault Brigade 601, a similar number is expected to equip the company commands 601 and 602 in the coming months. Recall that the Force has already received twenty quad 4x4 Polaris Ranger 800 CC, sixty 500cc ATV Polaris Sportman and a dozen additional sexticiclos Polaris 800 CC.

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