First Picture of the New Kurganets-25 Russian Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle

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First Picture of the New  Kurganets-25 Russian Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle
A photo of the new Russian tracked armored vehicle Kurganets-25, made during Monday’s, March 23, rehearsal of the upcoming May 9 Victory Day parade on Red Square, is now available on the Web. The Kurganets is a new platform designed and developed by the Russian Defense Company Kurgan Machine-Building Plant to create a new family of light tracked armoured vehicle.
     
First Picture of the New Russian Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle Kurganets-25 Picture of Kurganets-25 taken during a rehearsal of the upcoming May 9 Victory Day parade
     

The tryout in Alabino, just outside Moscow, featured a group of partially camouflaged armored vehicles rolling past. The Kurganets-25 provides a high degree of commonality with the new T-14 Armata heavy battle tank, whose photo earlier appeared online, Military-informant.com reported.

The Kurganets is a new platform designed and developed by the Russian Defense Company Kurgan Machine-Building Plant to create a new family of light tracked armoured vehicle. The Kurganets-25 is the IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) variant of the Kurganets family. The Kurganets-25 could replaced the BMP IFV family currently in use by the Russian armed forces.

The Kurganets-25 will evolve into various models, gradually replacing BMP and BMD and MT-LB and other types of tracked armored platforms. It will have modular armor that can be upgraded for specific threats, a 2A42 30 mm cannon, and four Kornet-EM anti-tank guided missile launchers.
The Kurganets-25 is fully amphibious, propelled in the water by two water-jets at the rear of the hull.

The vehicle uses a new technology for amphibious operation which increases the speed in the water up to 10 km/h. The vehicle will be equipped with automatic fire control system which is able to automatically select targets. Standard equipment of the Kurganets-25 could include a thermal imager, eye-safe laser rangefinder, GPS / inertial navigation system and computerized fire control system.