The Singapore Military has efficiently concluded the inaugural abroad live-firing for the Hunter Armoured Combating Car (AFV) throughout the autumn body of Ex Panzer Strike at Oberlausitz Navy Coaching Space (OMTA),Germany. OMTA, which is itself a couple of quarter the scale of Singapore, has given the Singapore Military the flexibleness to coach with out the area constraints they expertise at house, together with concurrent live-firing of as much as 4 ranges for armored items and interesting targets at better vary. HQ Armour Servicemen efficiently fired the Hunter Armoured Combating Car’s SPIKE-LR2 anti-tank guided missile for the first time.
The Hunter AFV is a tracked Singaporean armoured preventing car collectively developed by ST Engineering, Defence Science and Expertise Company, and the Singapore Military. Meant to interchange the Singapore Military’s getting old Extremely M113 armoured personnel carriers, it was commissioned in 2019. It’s the Singapore Military’s first absolutely digitalised platform and is designed to supply armoured forces with enhanced capabilities to function extra successfully and effectively in varied phases of army operations. Previously, it was generally known as ST Kinetics Subsequent Era Armoured Combating Car (NGAFV).
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The car has a tracked chassis and is crewed by a commander, a driver, and a gunner. The car is supplied with an built-in fight cockpit, which permits the commander and gunner to make use of a standard set of controls to function the Hunter, and a drive by wire functionality, which permits the car commander to take over driving features from the driving force. The commander and gunners even have impartial sights. The Hunter has an MTU 8V-199 TE20 720hp (530kW) turbocharged diesel engine, & an HMX3000 Hydro-mechanical infinitely variable transmission. It has InArm Hydro-pneumatic suspension offered by Hortsman of the UK.
The Hunter AFV has a remotely managed Samson Mk II turret from Rafael armed with a 30 mm Mk44 Bushmaster II cannon, with {a magazine} for 200 30x173mm rounds, two SPIKE-LR2 anti-tank guided missiles, a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun, and eight 76 mm smoke grenade launchers. The missile is designed by the Israeli firm Rafael Superior Protection Programs with a counter-active safety system (CAPS) functionality, having the ability to hit targets at greater affect angles of as much as 70 levels. Spike-LR II has elevated vary of 5.5 km (3.4 mi) at floor stage and 10 km utilizing an RF data-link, warhead choices of tandem HEAT with 30% elevated armor penetration.
