Russian defense Company Kurganmashzavod to develop new airborne armoured fighting vehicle 1211124

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Monday, November 12, 2012, 03:14 PM
 
Russian defense Company Kurganmashzavod to develop a new airborne armoured fighting vehicle.
Russian defense firm Kurganmashzavod is developing a new airborne fighting vehicle, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday, November 12, 2012. “We are ready to continue the work on the new platforms that are currently being developed at Kurganmashzavod. This includes the Kurganets platform for the new airborne fighting vehicle,” Rogozin said.
     

Scale model of the new russian-made Kurganets armoured infantry fighting vehicle
     

The General Staff of the Armed Forces will make the final decision on the system to be adopted, he noted.

“The industry may propose a variety of technical options to the Defense Ministry but it may not act as the contracting authority,” Rogozin said.

Ground Forces commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin earlier said that the military will take delivery of new armored vehicles some time after 2015.

The Kurganets range is new family of tracked armoured vehicles for airborne troops. The Kurganets-25 tracked armored infantry fighting vehicle could provided high degree of commonality with the new Russian project of main battle tank Armata.

The Kurganets-25 will evolve into various models, gradually replacing BMP and BMD and MT-LB and other types of tracked armored platforms in the Russian armed forces.