Israel began mass production of wheeled armored personnel carrier "Eitan"

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Israel began mass production of wheeled armored personnel carrier "Eitan"

All three prototype armored personnel carrier "Eitan"

In Israel, mass production of the latest wheeled armored personnel carrier "Eitan" began. This was reported by the bmpd blog with reference to material published by oleggranovsky.

It is reported that on February 9 of this year, the Israeli Ministry of Defense officially announced the start of mass production of Eitan wheeled armored personnel carriers. The first vehicles will enter the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the end of the next, 2021.



As previously reported, the development of the Eitan wheeled armored personnel carrier was started by the BTT Directorate in the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MANTAK - “Minhelet ha-REKEM”) in 2014 and took five years. The new armored personnel carrier widely uses many technologies already developed on tank "Merkava" and heavy armored personnel carrier "Namer". The Eitan assembly will also be based on the same lines at the Repair and Restoration Center (MASHA-7000 in Tel-a-Shomer) AOI, where Merkava and Namer are produced.

According to reports, more than 60 companies from Israel and the United States will participate in the production of the new APC. It is alleged that 50% of the details of the armored personnel carrier will be produced in the United States, this is done in order to partially finance the production through American military assistance. The transfer of the production of parts from Israel to the United States will occur gradually. Of the Israeli share of parts, only 10% will be produced at the IDF army, the rest will be produced by civilian enterprises.

A German 750-hp will be installed on the armored personnel carrier. MTU diesel instead of the American Caterpillar. The cost of one armored personnel carrier will be 3 million dollars.


As previously written, Eitan’s wheeled armored personnel carrier will carry 13 people (3 crew members + 10 landing personnel), it will receive an Iron Fist active defense complex, as well as an uninhabited turret with cannon weapons, called the Zrikhon ( "Turret"). This combat module is armed with a 30 mm cannon, coaxial 7,62 mm machine gun and the Gil anti-tank system (Spike LR II). According to the developers, all weapons of the module have particularly high elevation angles, which will allow shelling targets located on the upper floors of buildings.
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    1. -11
      11 February 2020 11: 52
      Jews stole the BTR-80. It is necessary to sue them.
      1. +17
        11 February 2020 11: 55
        The prosecutor will sit. )))
        1. -1
          11 February 2020 14: 09
          laughing laughing lol laughed, thanks.
      2. +2
        11 February 2020 11: 59
        only the court will be Jewish ... wink
      3. +5
        11 February 2020 15: 51
        Quote: kiril1246
        Jews stole BTR-80

        Well, this is after, but first:
        "Stole, I know, they are from the people
        All the bread from last year’s crop! "
      4. +1
        11 February 2020 17: 10
        Quote: kiril1246
        Jews stole the BTR-80. It is necessary to sue them.

        Well, since you are already in Israel, then "cards in your hands" - submit ...
      5. +2
        11 February 2020 18: 12
        And drank all the water .....
    2. 0
      11 February 2020 11: 54
      -many technologies have been applied that have already been tested on the Merkava tank and the Namer heavy armored personnel carrier.
      A lot of Ahzarit.
    3. +3
      11 February 2020 11: 57
      The cost of one armored personnel carrier will be 3 million dollars.
      But for someone Armata is too expensive!
      1. +8
        11 February 2020 15: 42
        The Boomerang contractors did not receive funding at all at one time. Therefore, "things are still there" - running models and the fallen "Seagull". "Well, I didn't, I didn't."
        1. +1
          12 February 2020 03: 07
          Sorted out about a certain "Seagull" already, it's not a seagull but a bike!
    4. +8
      11 February 2020 11: 57
      These devils, as always, make sensible armored vehicles. Really good car, judging by a different, more visual video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UKFxZm1DfA&feature=emb_rel_pause
      1. +8
        11 February 2020 12: 08
        Quote: Elephant
        These devils, as always, make sensible armored vehicles. Really good car, judging by a different, more visual video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UKFxZm1DfA&feature=emb_rel_pause

        I like it more.

        And I would prefer it only in the infantry, but the authorities are more visible.
        1. 0
          11 February 2020 13: 32
          Aron, he looks more like a BMP.
          Is "Eitan" too high? This inclination among developers has become more noticeable lately. Boomerang, Barys, etc. It is clear that this is due to the design of mine protection, but no matter how armored personnel carriers become "the favorite target of grenade launchers" ... And everyone began to increase their calibers. Apparently, the protection has become better (armor and DZ). Russians are increasingly writing about the 57mm. Baikal ...
          And yet, the dimensions of the new armored personnel carriers are surprising, to say the least. hi
          1. +2
            11 February 2020 13: 52
            Grenade launcher? With effective shooting of 150-300 m. It is only if it gets into an ambush, and even that is unlikely, with Israeli sighting systems, the threat will be detected at a greater distance. Their task is to carry people and not to storm. So, the main threat to such armored personnel carriers is land mines or ...
          2. +3
            11 February 2020 13: 53
            Quote: Kasym
            Aron, he looks more like a BMP.
            Is "Eitan" too high? This inclination among developers has become more noticeable lately. Boomerang, Barys, etc. It is clear that this is due to the design of mine protection, but no matter how armored personnel carriers become "the favorite target of grenade launchers" ... And everyone began to increase their calibers. Apparently, the protection has become better (armor and DZ). Russians are increasingly writing about the 57mm. Baikal ...
            And yet, the dimensions of the new armored personnel carriers are surprising, to say the least. hi

            KAZ is put against RPGs and ATGMs. And the size is also due to the fact that the soldier in the SIBZ requires more volume.
      2. +3
        11 February 2020 15: 17
        What weapons there? 30 and machine guns? And in size, all armored personnel carriers are almost high, here are Russian ones too.
        There really is more serious weapons.
        1. 0
          11 February 2020 16: 35
          the height can be understood: 1.70m for the landing with a run-out to the "rear projection", plus 0.5m clearance, plus the bottom and roof (optional); but four unfortunate axles for more than 20 tons lead to sad reflections, both at the expense of cross-country ability and at the expense of somersault, especially with a tower on the roof
    5. +17
      11 February 2020 12: 05
      We must learn from Israel. The spit seems to be on the map, but he does the technique with a bang, and he also sells it, like tomatoes to Russia, where half of the country of "God's chosen ones is a desert, unlike Russia - we import eggplants from China, and garlic is a shame. they have nowhere to go, they are already rotting in the cellar ..
      1. 0
        11 February 2020 12: 15
        The layout is painfully reminiscent of Stryker, so I think some of the components will go from the USA, primarily the chassis, well, only with the replacement of the engine with a cheaper one, of course Bushmaster, where without it.
        1. +2
          11 February 2020 12: 54
          Quote: K-612-O
          I think some of the components will come from the USA

          it’s not denied, it’s directly stated, and it’s even explained why it was done (Jews don’t have something just like that):
          50% of the details of the armored personnel carrier will be produced in the United States, this is done in order to partially finance production at the expense of US military assistance


          Quote: K-612-O
          The layout is painfully reminiscent of Stryker

          so the developers themselves do not deny that they most actively used foreign developments in the field of wheeled armored vehicles. At the same time, the feed resembles that of the Merkava tank (Eitan was developed by the same company as the Carrot) A sort of symbiosis of Stryker, Boxer and Merkava

          Quote: K-612-O
          Well, only with the replacement of the engine with a cheaper one

          Do you think MTU is cheaper than Caterpillar ???
      2. -1
        11 February 2020 13: 45
        Quote: Fedorov
        We must learn from Israel. Spit as if on a map

        Well, here's another thing to learn from Christ sellers. Once. It is necessary to help Syria.
      3. -1
        12 February 2020 17: 00
        But your girls are beautiful and accommodating.
    6. +2
      11 February 2020 12: 24
      All new armored personnel carriers 8x8 are made like a blueprint, both ours and not ours. Just right to put the "friend or foe" module on all AT-tools.
      1. +1
        11 February 2020 13: 46
        Quote: Yrec
        Fit the "friend or foe" module on all AT-tools

        Useless. Do not care for the Syrian pvoshniks whether the module is friend or foe on your machine or not.
    7. +3
      11 February 2020 13: 13
      The development of a wheeled armored personnel carrier "Eitan" was started by the Directorate of BTT in the Israeli Defense Ministry (MANTAK - "Minhelet ha-REKEM") in 2014 and took five years.
      The first official information on the development in Russia of a fundamentally new armored personnel carrier appeared in 2010 (BTR / BMP K-16/17 Boomerang). Admission to service. 2..XX year. Have a good envy of the Jews. Do not talk and brag, but do ..
    8. -1
      11 February 2020 13: 37
      I remember local visitors from Israel shouting with foam at the mouth that they shouldn’t put a large machine gun at all in 30 mm guns, otherwise the younger commanders would suddenly want to use the armored personnel carrier as an assault machine, and then they suddenly put laughing
      1. -1
        11 February 2020 14: 08
        Quote: Graz
        I remember local visitors from Israel shouting with foam at the mouth that they shouldn’t put a large machine gun at all in 30 mm guns, otherwise the younger commanders would suddenly want to use the armored personnel carrier as an assault machine, and then they suddenly put laughing

        So not all armored personnel carriers will be with a gun (according to the Israelis themselves). The lion’s part will remain in the basic configuration - with BM with a 12,7 mm machine gun. I believe that only platoon commanders will get cannon machines.
      2. +4
        11 February 2020 14: 58
        "suddenly junior commanders want to use the armored personnel carrier as an assault vehicle" ///
        ---
        Not assault, but anti-tank. Which is fatal and useless. This danger potentially exists with Eitan. They want to put ATGM Spike on it.
        And entering into battle with the enemy’s MBT, you expose your infantry squad, which you are transporting, to unnecessary danger.
        1. +1
          11 February 2020 15: 19
          And if in the battle the squad was already landed and the tank appeared in sight.
          1. +3
            11 February 2020 15: 25
            In battle, everything changes very quickly.
            The commander can give the order to shoot ATGM before he hurries people. And the tank reacts swiftly. For this reason, Israeli armored personnel carriers did not put heavy weapons. Only machine guns.
    9. +2
      11 February 2020 14: 57
      Quote: kiril1246
      Do not care for the Syrian pvoshniks whether the module is friend or foe on your machine or not.

      That's right, they still do not know how to use equipment defining their own / alien.
    10. 0
      11 February 2020 17: 13
      The armored personnel carrier is not handsome, but the main thing that would fulfill its main duty is to reliably defend and more or less comfortably transport infantry.
      Here it is worth asking, is it not time for the "Boomerang" to appear in our troops ...
    11. +1
      11 February 2020 18: 14
      Quote: kiril1246
      Jews stole the BTR-80. It is necessary to sue them.

      Jews created it
    12. +2
      11 February 2020 18: 27
      The developers claimed in the media that one of the requirements was to make the car absolutely recognizable, "from Israel." In my opinion, it worked. Yes In the final (visible) version, the thickness of the "reactive" armor blocks has been increased and they hang somewhat along the sides. The front suspension cover has become powerful, at the same time as the front plate and has a service hatch. The exhaust is slightly displaced to the second axle, the wheels seem to be of a different type compared to the first prototype. The assumption that the V-shape is slightly increased, the bottoms are difficult to verify from the video. It was reported that the car is already being looked at outside Israel. In addition to the already created new assembly line and recruited employees, in the future the pace of production will also depend on Jeneral Dynamics sending the hulls by sea. (although they can provide any ...)
      1. 0
        12 February 2020 06: 12
        I believe that with a tower with Spikes and KAZ export will go off with a bang!

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