Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Marine's New LAV-A2
Tetraaxial ATC LAV-A2 represents an improved version of the Marine's Light Armored Vehicle, which is being used in the US Marines since 1980's and continues it's service today.
In terms of basic LAV chassis there had been developed and delivered to the Marine Corps several modifications/series of LVA, such as armored personnel, anti-tank, command and control, logistics and mortar variants.
LAV-A2 is supplied with Detroit Diesel engine 6V53T, developing 275 horsepower coupled with six-speed automatic transmission. Four rear wheels drive vehicle at all times, while eight wheel drive can be selected if needed. Compared to permanent all- wheel drive system, this one allows to save fuel while driving. Besides that, all Armored Vehicles can float. The basic version of LAV-A2 is equipped with Bushmaster 25mm gun joined with a 7.62 mm machine-gun. On the top of the vehicle there is an attached 7.62 caliber/12.7 mm anti-aircraft gun-machine. More over, there are also smoke grenade cup discharges attached on the top of the LAV.
Light Armored Vehicle-A2 is fully equipped with the modern target designation system, which includes laser range finder and thermal imager.
According to the signed $189 million cotract General Dynamics Land Systems committed to supply US Marine corps with 151 armored troop-carriers by the end of 2008, the first ones will be delivered in July 2007.
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