Moving soldiers through hostile territory becomes much safer
if they have the opportunity to travel on an armored fighting vehicle. However,
the new armored personnel carrier does much more than just transporting
soldiers.
Personnel
Carrier Puma Is Not Afraid Of Nuclear Attacks
A construction group PSM, designed Puma IFV (Infantry
Fighting Vehicle) which is an armored personnel carrier for the six soldiers,
which can also serve as the main battle tank, infantry support tools, platform
or defense depending on the requirements of the current situation. The new
generation of APC Puma was developed with the 90s, when they were proposed as a
replacement of the obsolete fleet transports. The new platform has been tested
in a cold climate in 2012, in summer in the last year, and now has been officially
presented to the public at the exhibition.
Puma has been designed as an adaptable platform that can
perform many different roles and therefore can be equipped with three different
classes of armor: Class A is the basic book, weighing 31.5 metric ton. Class B
allows you to move an armored personnel carrier on rails but is no longer used
as a reservation Class C, adds another 9 tons of composite armor, still leaves
enough traffic light, so it can be transported by air. At the same time today
Puma is one of the most protected armored personnel carriers in the world.
Pressurized cabin BTR volume 9 cubic meters can
even withstand an attack by nuclear missiles. The unusual design of the cabin
led to very curious arrangement of arms APC uses a 30-mm gun, displaced
relative to the central axis of transport, machine gun MG 4, and a circular
observation periscope, located between them. 30mm auto cannon can fire
projectiles at a speed of 200 rounds per minute at a distance of 3000 meters. That
is really impressive its intellectual filling. Puma can act as a communication
transmitter and a mobile command post for the connected network of ground
soldier of the future. In addition, when they are not on the front, four of
these APCs can be interconnected in a "training mode", acting as
combat simulators for crews and foot joints.
