However, the machines are equipped with nodes for installation of additional wall modules passive armor brand AMAR is the German company IBD that can provide protection from fire of heavy machine guns. However, they are not included and are available separately and at extra cost.
The bottom in the center of the cabin, according to the technical documentation, has a V-shaped, its material is the layered structure of type “sandwich” with a 10-mm armor. It is believed that all this leads not only to the rejection of the explosive action in the lateral direction, the absorption due to the deformation of the material.
When the detonation of the charge underneath the energy of the explosion initially extinguished ceramic protection and double-layered bottom, then struts of the frame housing with the transition to the roof. It is believed that from the seat of the crew explosive acceleration pulse comes very weakened, not exceeding considerably the norm overloads.
However, getting acquainted with the chassis of the armored car, at the Forum in Zhukovsky, the author has discovered a completely flat bottom, slightly beveled at a slight angles to the sides.
On the armored car “Lynx” installed a three-liter diesel engine Ivесо F1С 190 HP with an average fuel consumption of 14 l / 100 km; reached specific power 26,8 HP/t Car at highway speeds up to 130 km/h, the autonomy of its travel up to 800 km.
Vehicle weight – 7100 kg.
Gearbox – automatic six-speed ZF 6НР2606F German production.
Transmission, fuel tank located aft of the machine, which ensures greater safety.
The wheels are equipped with built-in special so-called dostatochnym device with a substance, addictive holes. When injected into the tires of bullets, shrapnel or the explosion of light anti-personnel mines, they do not descend, as usual, to the rim – they may still travel up to 50 km at a speed of 30 km/h.
The spare wheel is mounted on a regular place on the back plate.
The crew of 4 people, with participation in the fighting fifth is added – the shooter-operator.
Therefore, the presented option 5-places-Noy car with a tower for the machine gun or the grenade launcher on the layout crew 2 + 3. The center rear seat is the gunner-operator, leading the firing of weapons on the roof. The presence of three men in full gear in the back seat is very problematic, especially during long trips or driving on bumpy roads. Between the front and rear seat set partition, which is communications equipment and other equipment. Therefore, the transition from the back seat in the front if you need to replace crew members is only possible when you stop the car.
Landing and crew egress – only through the door of the cabin, and in an emergency the exit is via a narrow hatch in the roof.
The six-model vehicle with four crew members on the two rear seats are “back to back”.
TACTICAL AND TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ARMORED VEHICLE “LYNX”
Weight, kg………………………………………..7100
Wheel formula…………………………….4×4
Crew……………………………………5 (6)
Weight of towed trailer, kg……..2000
Length, mm……………………………………….5120
Width, mm……………………………………2200
Height (roof), mm……………………2050
Ground clearance, mm……………………………………..290
Track of wheels, mm………………………………1710
Wheelbase, mm……………………………3220
Weapons………………machine gun – 7.62 mm
(12.7 mm) or grenade launcher – 30 mm
Engine:……………………………..Iveco Fl,
displacement 3.0 l, power 185 – 190 HP
Specific power, HP/t:……………….26,8
Average fuel consumption, l/100 km:……..14
Transmission:………………ZF 6HP2606F,
automatic
a six-speed
Transfer box:…………………….Steyr
two-stage
Maximum
speed km/h:………………..highway 130
Reserve, km:………………………………….800
The fording depth, m: ….0,85
Tires:………………………………….325/85 R16
Electrical Equipment In:……………………24
Level of protection: ….STANAG 4569 Level 3
Armament machine – gun, accommodation, and other weapons. Fire is the operator-gunner through the hatch in the roof, the installation of the complex remote control arms -commander from his front seat. The ammunition is placed on the roof of the car and in the aft baggage compartment; reloading weapons is possible only when the operator of the machine. The loopholes in the case are absent, so the fire from personal weapons may be conducted only with the Windows open, which is very undesirable in a melee.
Note that the proposed remotely controlled weapon module – Norwegian production.
The machine not only has fire extinguishers but the fire extinguisher is on the outside aft, which creates difficulties in its use in case of fire in the cabin and are unlikely to give the opportunity to use them in combat.
The Italians have determined the temperature range of stable health units and mechanisms of car – 32° to + 49°. Therefore, our manufacturers have some way to extend this range to really existing Russian conditions. A standard requirement in our equipment operates at temperatures from – 50° to + 50°.
In 2009 – 2011 to assess compliance with “Iveco” the requirements of the Ministry of defence were tested, for which IVЕСО was provided two machines. According to their results, the Italian manufacturers had to make some improvements. So, to preheat the engine in cold time of the year set the auxiliary heater with a heating capacity of 8 kW, and the heating of the cabin added a diesel heater in the rear with a capacity of 2 kW; changed the design of seats; mounted lamp, which allowed the commander to work in sutomiscica mode. Stepped up some security elements that increased the maximum roof load of 300 kg and the maximum load on the annular support in a sliding roof up to 200 kg; protect the battery from falling stones.
The tests also revealed that wide front bumper creates a traffic problem in deep snow, so it was replaced by a shortened, simultaneously putting on his fog lights; increased the width of the foot pegs to 180 mm. the Machine began to match the special underbody protection of the engine. For successful overcoming of water barriers installed in the air inlet and the element of the exhaust pipe.
Part of the equipment further included a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher, winch with electric drive, snow chains, tow device, and a set of tools and pullers.
Note that, according to the press, the cost of the unarmored “Iveco M65” on which their factory in Bolzano was in 2010, 170 thousand euros, armored car – from 256 thousand euros, with standard weapons – machine gun and radio station – from 461 thousand euros.
Italian armored cars under the Russian name “Lynx” is the international car build with armor and units made not only in Italy but also in other countries. Although at the request of the defence Ministry, all military equipment must be manufactured only from domestic materials and components.
Armored car “Lynx” was adopted by the Russian army in June 2010 the First of these machines was used in the strategic missile forces for support and protection on the March of mobile missile complexes “Topol-M” and “YARS”, replacing armored personnel carriers and machine Vodnik.
Cars, army UAZ-29661-vehicle with engine ZMZ-5143 98 HP and an elongated UAZ-2966 motor 9МЗ-4219.1 84 HP, which in the early 2000s were equipped with the Russian army, created on the basis of the famous UAZ-469. By this time they have, to put it mildly, could not meet the increased needs of military units. Therefore military experts had welcomed the new car – GAZ-2975, created by the Gorky automobile plant. It was an army jeep – Russian multipurpose armored terrain under the loud name “Tiger”. Its serial production in 2005 has mastered the Arzamas machine-building plant, where they were received in the Ministry of defence and the Ministry of internal Affairs.