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Rheinmetall Kodiak engineer vehicle at IDEX 2013 |
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| Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 03:55 PM | |||
| Rheinmetall Defence displays with the Kodiak latest generation of engineer armoured vehicle. | |||
Rheinmetall
Defence displays one the latest technologies in the range of tracked engineer
armoured vehicle at IDEX 2013, the Kodiak.
This vehicle is an heavy-duty tracked system designed for military and
disaster relief operations alike. |
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Kodiak is a heavy-duty combat engineering system
that falls into the military weight category MLC 70. Its mine-protected
MBT (main battle tank) Leopard 2 chassis and 1,100 kW diesel engine assure
outstanding mobility and a high level of protection. It is equipped with a powerful hinged-arm excavator with different excavator tools, a dozer system featuring cutting and tilt angle settings and a double-winch system consisting of two 9-ton capstan winches. For its self-protection, the vehicle is equipped with a remote control weapon station and a smoke grenade launcher system. Six cameras provide the two or three-man crew with a panoramic view of the vehicle’s surroundings, enabling them to switch tools and carry out a full range of combat engineering tasks without leaving the safety of the armoured fighting crew compartment. If required, the dozer blade can be replaced with a mine-breaching plough. By adapting the mine breaching kit, the vehicle can be used as a mine breaching system. Among other things, this enables the Kodiak to cut through minefields and to erect or dismantle artificial obstacles. Thanks to its extensive array of equipment, it can also be deployed in a civil defence or disaster recovery capacity as well as in joint civil-military operations. Rheinmetall manufactures and markets the Kodiak worldwide as part of a consortium with RUAG Defence, the strategic technology partner of the Swiss armed forces. The Kodiak tracked engineer armoured vehicle is already in service with the Army of Sweden, Switzerland and Netherlands. |
