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Russian MoD has begun testing new armoured recovery vehicle based on Kurganets-25 chassis 10509161

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Russian MoD has begun testing new armoured recovery vehicle based on Kurganets-25 chassis.

Russia's Ministry of Defense and the "Special Design Bureau for Machine Building" (SKBM) have begun testing a next-generation Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV) based on the Kurganets-25, which is used to repair or recover damaged combat machinery during warfare.

Scale model of Kurganets-25 ARV (Armoured Recovery Vehicle) at RAE 2015 defense exhibition in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.

The new ARV has been developed on the platform of the Kurganets-25 infantry vehicle, and is intended to support infantry vehicles or armored personnel carriers. It carries repair equipment such as replacement engines, transmission systems, clutches and other necessary components, and is able to withstand heavy gunfire.

"The vehicle is currently undergoing testing at the moment, and it can be expected to be deployed together with the Kurganets-25," Sergey Abdulov, head designer at SKBM, told Izvestiya. Abdulov explained that the new vehicle is safer than its predecessors, and boasts an improved system of evacuation for soldiers under fire.

The new Kurganets-25 ARV improves upon the BREM-1 armored recovery vehicle which entered service with the Russina army in 1984.

A military source told the newspaper that the ARV will be deployed to support infantry and marine battalions equipped with the new Kurganets-25 and Bumerang combat vehicles, as well as the older BTR-80, BTR-82B, BMP-2 and BMP-3.