The famous MOWAG Piranha V armored vehicle.
From the Swiss company Mowag, the company's early Sawfat Carp III was a hit, extremely popular, almost the world's earliest Type 8×8 wheeled armored transport vehicle, can be regarded as the originator, that in the 70s of the last century, after the advent, countries around the world rushed to imitate. Including the LAV-25 equipped by the US Marine Corps, etc. The contemporary sawfat carp armored car became the world's most equipped and versatile wheeled armored vehicle, adopted by 16 countries, with a total production of more than 6-7K vehicles, and some countries are still in production.
The actual translation of the name is also quite interesting, there are translations of sawfat carp, piranha. In the early years, it was also referred to by the company name. The new car is better protected than before, with integrated additional composite modular armor. It is resistant to 14.5 mm armor-piercing shells and shell fragments, and in some areas to 25 mm armor-piercing shells. The car has a double floor with a V-shaped shell, which is well protected against the explosion of mines and improvised explosive devices. It withstands an explosion of 10 kg of anti-tank mines under any wheel. All passengers are seated in mine-resistant seats. This IFV has an NBC protection system. Piranha V is also proposed to be equipped with the LEDS-150 active protection system.
The Piranha V has a payload capacity of 13 tons. A baseline model of a remotely operated 12.7-mm machine gun was proposed. Although heavier weapons could be installed, including turrets equipped with guns up to 120 mm. The secondary armament consisted of a remotely controlled weapons station armed with a 12.7 mm machine gun. Once upgraded and equipped with heavier weapons, the Piranha V can be considered a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, not an armored personnel carrier. In some ways, it may even be superior to older infantry fighting vehicles, such as the American M2 Bradley, the British Warrior, etc. But there are also funny ones, when testing in Kuwait, it also overturned, haha.
The armies of Monaco, Denmark, Romania, Spain and other countries are its customers.
In addition, the Swiss company Mowag, although famous but small after all, is now owned by General Dynamics Land Systems Europe, which is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, a business unit of General Dynamics that operates through five European operations in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.
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