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Russia’s Bumerang armored personnel carrier to have wheeled IFVs’ firepower 51301172.
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Russia’s K-17 Bumerang armored personnel carrier (APC) will be on a par with wheeled infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) in terms of firepower, Russian Army Commander-in-Chief Colonel-General Oleg Salyukov said in an interview with RIA Novosti news agency.
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 The K-17 Bumerang APC (Photo V. Kuzmin) |
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The K-17 Bumerang APC is being developed for Russia’s Army, he added.
"In addition to the upgraded BTR-82AM armored personnel carrier, we are developing the advanced K-17 Bumerang APC with a big number of cutting-edge solutions and technologies," Salyukov said. "The K-17 Bumerang armored personnel carrier can be regarded as a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle in terms of firepower," he added. The Bumerang armored personnel carrier is an amphibious vehicle designed to replace its predecessors, the old BTR family used by the Russian armed forces. During the International exhibition of arms and military equipment RAE 2013 in Nizhny Tagil, the project of the vehicle was showed only for the Prime Minister of Russia. The first prototype of the Bumerang was delivered in 2013. According to Sputnik News, large production of the Boomerang started in 2015, to replace the BTR-82A and BTR-80 APCs currently in service with the Russian army, with a total of for 2,000 vehicles, in various configurations. The armored personnel carrier was unveiled at the Victory Day Parade on May 9, 2015. It is expected to be made operational in 2017. There are two variants of the Bumerang vehicle, the K-16 APC and K-17 IFV. |
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