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Hi comrades, today I want to introduce you to one of the new means of the Italian Army. The VBA (Veicolo Blindato Anfibio, in Italian) it's a amphibious vehicle producted of Consorzio Iveco - Oto Melara on the base of project VBM Freccia. The SuperAV (Surface Performance Amphibious Vehicle) is based on Freccia hull, but more raised than the latter to improve movement in the water. It's an armoured 8x8 wheeled vehicle, with high load capacities. 560 hp Iveco Cursor engine, 700km of range. This version mounts an remoted HITFIST OWS turret by Oto Melara: one ATK Mk44 Bushmaster 30mm main cannon; 7,62 mm coaxial machine gun, Janus optical system, 1 side compartment for 2 Rafeal Spike missiles, engagement systems, which allow it to operate both day and night, infrared (IR) systems, anemometer and laser rangefinder. In the event of a system failure, the turret remains operational and ready to fire via an optical aiming system. There are also 2 launchers with four smoke bombs each. The variants for the foreign market of this vehicle will be mainly adopted by the US Marines: the American model is known as ACV 1.1, by Iveco - Bae. Other images on my flickr!
