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The Acmat Bastion APC is being constantly evolved and the latest version is equipped with independent suspensions. (RTD) adopted by Kuwait and is the current production standard vehicle. As for the Petit Véhicule Protégé (PVP), the French DGA delivered the 993rd production vehicle out of the 1,133 ordered by the services, meaning that the total number of delivered PVP Mk3 has now well exceeded the 1,000 mark. RENAUlT SHERpA: The other major French producer of light armoured vehicles is Renault Truck Defence, whose Sherpa chalked up orders for 10 armada Compendium Light Armoured Vehicles 2012 over 150 units, with deliveries now well underway. The vehicle has been sold in several configurations. The Sherpa APC, the personnel carrier version that can accommodate up to 10, was acquired by Qatar, India and by an undisclosed central- European nation, while the carrier version has been delivered to Namsa as well as to France, which is using it as the platform for its Syracuse Satcom mobile station. Egypt is also a Sherpa user and operates both the Station Wagon and the Sherpa Light Scout versions, the latter equipped with a remotely controlled weapon station from Pro Optica of Rumania. This stabilised system can be armed with machine guns The logo of Battlenet Inside indicates that this vehicle is equipped with the vetronic architecture developed by Renault Trucks Defense. (Armada/PV) from 5.56 to 12.7 mm and was shown for the first time on board an Egyptian vehicle last June at Eurosatory. Renault Trucks Defense worked on the protection of its Sherpas which can now be up-armoured to Level 3 ballistic protection and Level 2a/b anti-mine protection. In addition, the Scout version underbelly protection can be raised to Level 3a/2b. A relatively new challenge with current armoured vehicles is their capacity to integrate new electronic systems with minimal effort; to this end Renault Trucks Defense leveraged the experience acquired by the Volvo Group on the civilian market. Its new “Battlenet Inside” vetronic solution is a derivative of a cots system available at Volvo that is hardened and militarised according to customers needs. The open architecture vetronic system proposed to customers allows vehicles like the Sherpa to be easily equipped with weapon stations, jammers, shot detection systems, battle management systems, etc. Another possible option is the adoption of active protection systems: the company exhibited in Paris a Sherpa Light Scout equipped with the Bright Arrow combined soft- and hard-kill system developed and produced by the Israeli Military Industries, that includes both an electro-optical directional jammer that “dazzles” antitank missile guidance systems as well as blast-interceptor rounds able to neutralise RPGs and missiles. Renault anticipates a steady increase in Sherpa sales in the military and paramilitary world and believes it can score enough sales by the end of 2012. A programme that might have a considerable impact on the Sherpa is the French Army VLTP (Véhicule Léger Tactique Polyvalent or Light Tactical Multirole Vehicle). This include the P4 replacement with unarmoured utility vehicles, a five tonner with ballistic protection Level 2 and antimine protection Level 2a/1b, a 7.5 tonner with Level 2 ballistic and Level 2a/2b antimine protection, and a 10-tonne gross weight light truck with a 3-tonne payload, but low protection. A discussion is currently underway amongst users to merge their 5 and 7.5 tonner requirements in favour of the latter to yield a family of vehicles
with a much higher payload. In terms of numbers, the current split is estimated at over 2,000 five-tonners and 300 to 500 7.5 tonners with 100 of these earmarked as ambulances. For both categories the bid should take place in 2014 with deliveries between 2016 and 2025, but the programme may slip to the right to give priority to combat vehicles that are part of the Scorpion programme. Renault Trucks Defence believes that its Sherpa is very well positioned for the VLTP requirement in the protected 7.5-tonne segment. AcMAT VlRA2: Renault’s sistercompany Acmat Defense developed a protected vehicle based on the VLRA2 high mobility truck chassis, the Bastion. Recently the company launched the latest version of this vehicle called Bastion Extreme Mobility. While the standard version was based on live axles the new one features independent suspensions while a 320 hp engine replaced the original 215 hp set of pistons. Ballistic protection varies from Level 1 to Level 3, payload being reduced accordingly from three tonnes to 2.5 tonnes (Level 2) to 1.5 tonnes, while anti-mine protection can reach Level 2a/2b. The Bastion EM has a crew of two and carries eight dismounts who can use their individual weapons from inside the vehicle and can be equipped with an open cupola armed with a machine gun. The Bastion is transportable by aircraft as small as the C.160 Transall. While all questions about Russia are turned down by Iveco DV, which only confirms the delivery of around 50 LMV derivatives (see introductory picture on opening page), the company leaves all other speculations to open sources that get their information from Moscow, since apparently the development of a local joint venture and production plant are still under discussion. The LMV production however, is in full swing at the Bolzano Iveco DV plant (Bolzano and Vittorio Veneto production sites rolling out around 500 vehicles per year). IVEcO lMV/lINcE: Although the LMV has been widely exported to Belgium, Britain, Spain, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and recently Austria and Russia, at least four of these nations are using the vehicle in Afghanistan, including the main customer - the Italian Army to whom it is known as the Lince (lynx in Italian). Iveco delivered all 1,400 vehicles originally ordered, these being the basic LMV version and the Lince-1 improved version. The Italian Army has signed a follow-on contract for 478 units to improve Lince 1A standard. To make the structure lighter, but tough enough to withstand a remotely controlled weapon station, the lateral structure has been reinforced and now bears a monolithic roof, which enables the car to withstand a 7 g acceleration when falling on its roof sans the roll-over bar installed in previous models. All vehicles are outfitted for the Hitrole light turret, (81 of these were acquired by the Italian Army and installed on adapted Lince 1 vehicles). The first Lince 1 equipped with the Oto Melara turret were delivered in late June 2012 and the first 20 were deployed to Afghanistan in early August. The lack of roll-over bar, coupled to roughly 40mm extra headroom increases the available space inside the cabin. A beefed up suspension was adopted, to with the higher centre of gravity resulting from the increased height and the weapon station, while onboard power generation has been doped to produce 240 Ah. Also included is an emergency exit hatch over the vehicle commander’s seat, to allow the driver and commander to exit in case doors are blocked, but the back of the front seats can now be reclined to allow passage between the front and rear sections of the crew compartment. Protection against roadside LMV Lince of the Italian Navy “San Marco” Amphibious Regiment on exercise, Italy has in service over 1,500 Lince, hundreds of them in Afghanistan. (Armada/PV) bombs has been further enhanced, with side doors now featuring three hinges instead of two. Deliveries of the 7.1-tonne gross weight Lince 1A started in 2012. A further evolution of the LMV is anticipated though no details have been disclosed by Iveco DV to date. While the intention is not to stretch the LMV to MRAP levels, protection and payload would be areas for improvement while preserving high mobility and stateof-the-art automotive technologies. Modularity will be maintained, the LMV being already developed in different configurations such as Special Forces, 81 mm mortar carrier, patrol, and ambulance, the latter on a long wheelbase chassis. That chassis might also be used for a recce car using the current standard protected crew cell, though a long cabin vehicle, trading volume for payload, could be envisaged. Iveco is developing an Istar version of the vehicle for the Italian Army: a first batch of eight such vehicles is planned, the ideal solution would involve the short wheelbase chassis, although volume considerations might require a long wheelbase with standard crew cell. The vehicle should be customised according to the mission with missionoriented modules, with a major effort on electromagnetic shielding given that electronic warfare will be one of the vehicle’s major roles. The Czech armada Compendium Light Armoured Vehicles 2012 11
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