Didgori Armoured Personnel Carrier
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The Didgori is a Georgian-made armoured personnel carrier
family developed by the "Delta" research center of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia and exists in two baseline variants.
.Information from the cameras is displayed on the three displays: one for the driver, one for the commander and one for the Marines,established with a system of night vision and also with a special navigation system GPS
The monocoque
steel v-hull
provides protection against small arms fire, artillery
shell shrapnel, anti-personnel/tank mines
and IED
s. Front wheel arches are designed to be blown away to free blast pockets.
Armoured personnel carrier
An armoured personnel carrier is an armoured fighting vehicle designed to transport infantry to the battlefield.APCs are usually armed with only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortars...
family developed by the "Delta" research center of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia and exists in two baseline variants.
Technical characteristics
The machine is assembled on the basis of units of the American pickup truck Ford F-Series. Equipped with thermal imaging cameras front and rear view of FLIR SystemsFLIR Systems
FLIR Systems is a thermal imaging systems manufacturer based in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1978, the company makes thermal imagers, thermal imager components, as well as larger systems containing thermal imagers along with other sensors, for both commercial and military...
.Information from the cameras is displayed on the three displays: one for the driver, one for the commander and one for the Marines,established with a system of night vision and also with a special navigation system GPS
Armor
The armour withstands impacts of 7.62x54mm AP rounds and 6-8 kg mine blasts at direct contact and from underneath without heavy damage. Further details are unknown, since the composition of the material is classified. The two baseline models are armed with a 7.62x52mm M134 Minigun and the 12.7x108mm NSV machine gun, but can be armed with a wide range of armaments, including ATGMs.The monocoque
Monocoque
Monocoque is a construction technique that supports structural load by using an object's external skin, as opposed to using an internal frame or truss that is then covered with a non-load-bearing skin or coachwork...
steel v-hull
V-hull
The V-hull is a type of vehicle armor design used on wheeled armored personnel carriers , infantry mobility vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles...
provides protection against small arms fire, artillery
Artillery
Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...
shell shrapnel, anti-personnel/tank mines
Land mine
A land mine is usually a weight-triggered explosive device which is intended to damage a target—either human or inanimate—by means of a blast and/or fragment impact....
and IED
Improvised explosive device
An improvised explosive device , also known as a roadside bomb, is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action...
s. Front wheel arches are designed to be blown away to free blast pockets.
Modifications
- Didgori — Crew 8+1, engine double turbo diesel 450hp, speed 120 km/h,Primary armament НСВ-12,7. Armor exceeds STANAGSTANAG 4569NATO AEP-55 STANAG 4569 is a NATO Standardization Agreement covering the standards for the "Protection Levels for Occupants of Logistic and Light Armored Vehicles".The standard covers strikes from Kinetic Energy, artillery, and IED blasts....
level-2 - Didgori-2Didgori-2- Description :Developed by Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing with a Centre of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia "Delta". First demonstrated at the parade in Tbilisi 26 May 2011-Technical characteristics:...
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. Crew 6+1, engine double turbo diesel 450hp, speed 120 km/h,Primary armament M134 Minigun. Armor exceeds STANAGSTANAG 4569NATO AEP-55 STANAG 4569 is a NATO Standardization Agreement covering the standards for the "Protection Levels for Occupants of Logistic and Light Armored Vehicles".The standard covers strikes from Kinetic Energy, artillery, and IED blasts....
level-2
See Also
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