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The VBTP-MR Guarani (Portuguese > ''Viatura Blindada Transporte de Pessoal - Média de Rodas''; "Vehicle Armored Personnel Carrier - Medium Wheeled Type"〔(IHS Jane's Defence Weekly ''Guarani AFV to enter service with Brazil'' by Victor Barreira, Lisbon - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly |26 February 2014 )〕) is a 6×6 armoured personnel carrier developed by Iveco and the Brazilian Army as part of its "URUTU-III" modernisation program aimed to replace all EE-11 Urutu by 2015. The VBTP-MR is based on a 6×6 version of Iveco's Superav armoured personnel carrier. In the program there's also the Brazilian Companies IMBEL (Communications), the ELBIT (Armaments), the Usiminas and the Villares (development of national ballistic structural steel). In 1999 the Brazilian Army issued a request (ROB #09/99) for a new family of armored fighting vehicles with amphibious capabilities able to replace the EE-9 Cascavel and EE-11 Urutu developed in the seventies. The main feature of this new family should be its modular design, allowing the incorporation of different turrets, weapons, sensors and communications systems onto the same carriage. The development program also include a communications version, an ambulance version and different fire support versions, armed with large calibre mortar and gun systems. The Brazilian Army has signed with Iveco a contract worth about €2.5 billion for supplying armoured personnel carriers of the VBTP-MR model. The vehicles will replace the old Urutu armoured vehicle employed today by the Brazilian armed forces. The contract covers the delivery of 2,044 vehicles and logistical support for a period of 20 years. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2012, and continue for 18 years.〔〔〔 There is also an 8×8 variant of the vehicle.〔()〕 ==Versions== Currently, the VBTP-MR comes in different variants and versions: * VBTP Standard; * VBCI (with 30mm turret); * VBE / CP (command post); * VBE / Mort (mortar carrier, possibly 120mm); * VBE / Recon (105 mm cannon) * VBE / CDT (fire control); * VBE / Communications / Command and Control; * VBE / Workshop; * VBE / Relief; * VBTE / Ambulance The requirements for the VBTP-MR VBCI included an ELBIT remote control turret, equipped with a Mk44 Bushmaster II cannon and a 7.62mm machine gun; it should also be able fire anti-tank guided missiles. This turret, capable of 360 degree swivel and elevation / depression of -15 to +60 degrees, was chosen by the Brazilian Army on a selection made from among four companies. It is expected to manufactured in Brazil. The firing system has a laser rangefinder, vision and fire control by day/night thermal vision, double shot of command (commander and gunner of the car, with precedence for the later), automatic target tracking system, and hunter killer smoke launchers. A significant aspect of this vehicle is that the turret is equipped with weapons sights and it is stabilized in two axes, allowing firing on the move with very high probability of hit within the first shot. Future needs will determine what kind of instruments will equip the turret, possibly after the vehicle enters service. Some speculate that that the VBE / CP version will fashion a battle management system. The first level at which information must flow in a bidirectional way, what is known as "situational awareness", refers to the tactical commander. The distress (probably the VBCI) and recognition models are planned to have an 8×8 drive train. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「VBTP-MR Guarani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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