"Shoet" ( Shoet ) - wheeled armored vehicle, developed in the late 1970s by the Israeli company Nimda [1] based on the chassis of a 2.5-ton army truck REO M-35.
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| Classification | Armored personnel carrier | ||||||||||||
| Combat weight, t | 9.7 | ||||||||||||
| Crew | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Landing , people | 10 | ||||||||||||
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| Manufacturer |  Nimda Group | ||||||||||||
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| Dimensions | |||||||||||||
| Body length mm | 6640 | ||||||||||||
| Width mm | 2200 | ||||||||||||
| Height mm | 2100 (without machine guns) | ||||||||||||
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| Type of armor | steel rolled | ||||||||||||
| Forehead, mm / city. | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Board of the case, mm / city. | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Bottom mm | fourteen | ||||||||||||
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| Machine guns | up to four | ||||||||||||
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| Engine power, l from. | 172 | ||||||||||||
| Speed on the highway, km / h | 90 | ||||||||||||
| Cruising on the highway , km | 400 | ||||||||||||
| Wheel formula | 6 × 6 | ||||||||||||
An armored vehicle can be used for reconnaissance and patrol, as an armored personnel carrier , command post, ambulance and evacuation vehicle, as well as a chassis for an 81-mm self - propelled mortar and 106-mm self-propelled recoilless guns [2] .
As of 2002 , the Shoet armored vehicles were not accepted for use by the IDF and were not exported [3] .
Content
- 1 Design
- 1.1 Armored Corps
- 1.2 Armament
- 1.3 Monitoring and communications
- 1.4 Engine and chassis
- 2 notes
- 3 see also
Design
Armored Corps
The body of the armored vehicle is welded, made of steel armor plates with a thickness of 8 mm from the sides and 10 mm in the frontal part, the thickness of the armored plates of the hull bottom is 14 mm (to protect the crew in case of a mine explosion) [2] .
In the open top fighting compartment can accommodate up to 12 soldiers.
Armament
In general, it is possible to install one 12.7 mm machine gun and up to four 7.62 mm machine guns on an armored car. Standard armament is one 12.7 mm M2HB Browning machine gun in the front of the machine and one 7.62 mm machine gun in the rear [4] .
Monitoring and communication tools
The armored vehicle is equipped with a night vision device and a radio station [2] .
Engine and chassis
In front of the machine, under the armored hood, a six-cylinder General Motors V-53 diesel engine with water cooling capacity of 172 hp is installed. Hydromechanical transmission, automatic transmission Allison MT-643 , has four speeds for moving forward and one back.
Notes
- ↑ Foreign Military Review, No. 12, 1981 (last cover page)
- ↑ 1 2 3 N. Fomich. Israeli armored vehicle // Foreign Military Review, No. 6, 1982. p.76
- ↑ Oleg Granovsky. Armament of the Ground Forces of the AOI / website "War Online" from 08/10/2002 (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment December 25, 2011. Archived January 7, 2012.
- ↑ B. Safonov. Armored vehicles of Israel // Foreign Military Review, No. 9, 1983. p. 35-40
see also
- Rayo
- BTR-152