Author: Rainbow Kursk
Recently, in the city of Kharkiv, a peculiar chariot painted with Ukrainian army camouflage was found, which was not a Ukrainian active combat vehicle, and the chassis resembled the chassis of the 2S1 self-propelled howitzer, and the chassis was equipped with the machine gun turret of an infantry fighting vehicle and anti-tank missiles.
The chariot drove through the streets at high speed, flying the Ukrainian flag, as if to head for the distant battlefield to fight the Russians.
In fact, this is the "Kevlar-E" infantry fighting vehicle launched by the Ukrainian company UkrInnMash in 2017, which was built in 2020 and first exhibited at the Weapons Expo in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, in 2021. This infantry fighting vehicle, which was intended for foreign trade, drove directly out of the tank factory in Kharkov in the face of a large-scale siege by the Russian army and drove to the front line. But it is facing the Russian army with strong anti-tank capabilities, which is estimated to be more sinister than ji!
Pictured: The small picture shows the "Kevlar" E infantry fighting vehicle driving at high speed on the streets of Kharkiv.
The Kevlar E infantry fighting vehicle, which weighs about 18.5 tons in combat, was developed on the chassis of the Soviet-made 2S1 Carnation 122 mm self-propelled howitzer. Due to the sharp shrinkage of the Ukrainian tank industry, the tank armored vehicles that can be used are basically developed on the basis of old Soviet-made combat vehicles, and the "Kevra" E infantry fighting vehicle is no exception.
The Kevlar E infantry fighting vehicle is very fast, capable of reaching 70 km / h on the road, mainly due to the use of Cummins diesel engines imported from the United States, and the chassis of the tank is also designed to be amphibious.
The vehicle was operated by 3 crews and capable of carrying 6 soldiers in the rear, with a Shturm turret at the top of the rear, the main weapons being a 30 mm machine gun and a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun, flanked by modular weapon link devices that could be equipped with anti-tank missiles or grenade launchers.
Picture: "Kevlar" E infantry fighting vehicle rear.
Although this is a new type of infantry fighting vehicle, its performance can not be said to be very good, its biggest problem is still that the armor is relatively weak.
The chassis of the "Kevlar" E infantry fighting vehicle was only a self-propelled howitzer chassis, and the armor of this second-line armored vehicle was very thin, only able to withstand machine gun bullets or shell fragments. Although the "Kevlar" E infantry fighting vehicle has some armor plates attached to the hull, it is very copycat in any way, and the total weight of the battle has not increased much, which shows that the armor protection ability is limited.
On the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, advanced anti-tank missiles are everywhere, and the Russian "trojan" anti-tank missiles can easily "open" the "Kevlar" E infantry fighting vehicle, and the Russian armed helicopter gunship can easily crush this large but weakly armored combat vehicle.
Therefore, although the Picture of the Kevlar E tank driving directly from the tank factory to the battlefield is very exciting to the Ukrainians, it is very likely that it will never return.
Image: The 2S1 is a self-propelled howitzer with weak chassis armor.
In fact, in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, this tradition of driving newly produced tank armored vehicles directly to the front line from the tank factory has always existed.
In the Odessa region of Ukraine, in the face of the invasion of the German and Romanian troops, the stubborn resistance of converting tractors into small tanks won a good story!
Photo: Tractor tanks from the "January Uprising Factory" – the famous Odessa tank.