The Skif armored personnel carrier, a new version of the M113, was unveiled in Ukraine.

Ukrainian company UkrArmoTech announced factory testing of the Skif armored personnel carrier, a new version of the American M113, and released images of the vehicle.

The crew consists of three people, and the troop can disembark via a rear ramp. Like the classic M113, the engine (360 hp) and transmission are located at the front. Weighing up to 15 tons, the APC offers frontal protection against 14,5 mm x 114 rounds, side and rear protection against 7,62 mm x 51 rounds, and can withstand the detonation of up to 6 kg of explosives.

The armament consists of a Ukrainian-made remote-controlled combat station equipped with a 12,7mm or 14,5mm machine gun. The APC is equipped with modern communications and navigation systems. EW and an air conditioning system – allegedly of Ukrainian manufacture.

Initially, approximately 60% of components, including the engine, transmission, suspension components, and tracks, are imported. In the future, the company plans to transition to in-house production of some components and assemblies to increase localization. The price of the product has not been disclosed.

Local observers noted the following regarding the new product:

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are extremely interested in having a sufficient number of easy-to-use and reliable tracked armored vehicles like the MT-LB or M113 BTR. However, Ukraine has been stalled in developing its own tracked armored vehicles in the light and medium weight categories.

Comments

[lynnot]

I wonder if they just assemble it or if they produce some of the components themselves?

[Bonzayev Senpai Kamikadzevich]

Initially, approximately 60% of components, including the engine, transmission, suspension components, and tracks, are imported. In the future, the company plans to transition to in-house production of some components and assemblies to increase localization.

[lynnot]

At the initial stage, about 60% of the components...

I saw that. However, the company has no problems with component supplies and production; they ship their products...

[Commissar77]

Quote: Lynnot

I wonder if they just assemble it or if they produce some of the components themselves?

50 months of the SVO, and Ukrainians They assemble 40% of their armored personnel carriers from their own components. Yeah, right.

[PROXOR]

And we still can't get the Manul tank into production. And the Troika doesn't offer anything fundamentally new. But those old-timers, the Degenerals, will be churning it out for another 100 years. I won't even mention the dynamic protection and active protection system for it.
We'll never see the Au-220.

[knn54]

Still, aluminum armor is inferior to steel.

[Bonzayev Senpai Kamikadzevich]

I wonder how to get to the engine? And is it worth it to go through all this trouble just to service such a small fleet? Because there definitely won't be any orders from abroad. Maybe we're missing something and our partners will throw in some more M113?

[commbatant]

Quote: Bonzaev Senpai Kamikazevich

Will the partners throw in some more M113?

Exactly. These armored personnel carriers are plentiful in the EU, both in the warehouses of wealthy NATO countries and in the military of penniless countries like Portugal and Greece.

[Vadim Zhivov]

A lot of things are produced in pig farms. I wish this list would be trimmed down to zero, so to speak.

[al3x]

Well, as we can see, over the past four years, demilitarization has gone in the exact opposite direction from what was planned. Or rather, from what was announced. There are now serious and well-founded doubts about the existence of any plans for this entire "movement." And the process is only gaining momentum day by day; it's unlikely to be stopped.

[alexoff]

So, according to the reports, all these production facilities have been destroyed. That means someone has to go to the general and say, "We need to bomb this Kharkiv Tractor Plant workshop!" But he'll say, "No, why bother? It was destroyed in 2023, and it's written right here that all objectives have been achieved." Well, that's why no one's been attacking armored vehicle factories for a long time now.
Or maybe it's not stupidity, but betrayal. Well, it's like the first time, what's so surprising?

[faterdom]

The 113th armored vehicle, while quite outdated, is a gift horse, and no one gives us one like that. Its contemporaries, the MT-LB and BMP-1, are fighting here, and I don't even know if the BTR-60PB is still in service (I had a hard time with those hulks with two weak engines and 18 cardan shafts).

[Slon_on]

We had one like that, it was called a slaughterhouse (expletive). If all the obscene energy expended on correcting the engine desynchronization were converted into rocket fuel, it would be enough to reach Mars.

[Kravets Vyacheslav]

Well, they showed it and showed it. It'll be a different matter if this technology goes into mass production.
By the way, what's going on with the BT-3F? Is everything undergoing state testing?

[tjeck91]

What the hell is this BT-3F for? It would be better to make a steel APC/IFV out of a T-54 or T-10M heavy tank (if they still exist).

[Kravets Vyacheslav]

What the hell is this BT-3F for?

I didn't write that it was needed.

A steel armored personnel carrier/infantry fighting vehicle was made from a T-54

And there won’t be such machines, and the reason for this is the same as why there is no BT-3F.

[commbatant]

Quote: Kravets Vyacheslav

there is no BT-3F either.

Well, we may not have this, but the Indonesian Navy does have it.

[Normann]

But in Ukraine, the development of its own tracked armored vehicles in the light and medium weight categories was on hold.

And in the heavy category?

[Ball]

So, the Ukropiteks took an ancient American armored personnel carrier (which they were sold at exorbitant prices), installed a door peephole (they have experience with it) and an air conditioner in its nose, and passed it off as their own invention? Uh-huh...

[TermNachTer]

Should we start production of a barn that was already outdated 40 years ago? Or is this another budget embezzlement?

[Ball]

Well, the Ukrainian Wehrmacht had already mastered the "revolutionary tanks for urban combat" (the ones from garbage containers with video peepholes), flooded the troops with them, and terrified the enemy with them. "Now we need a new topic. I wouldn't be surprised if they start reviving the Ukro-Reichsmarine, draping inflatable boats with bulletproof vests. And assign an admiral to each of these "combat ships."

[Incvizitor]

The same cardboard box before the first drone.

[Bayun]

Interesting ideas... If the main enemy is a UAV, the armor's weight can be redistributed using "sandwich armor panels" made of metal and composite. These can be quite effective against airdrops and low-speed FPV.

The vehicle's appearance points to additional armoring for the standard 113. There's a certain logic to this. Protection against UAVs is fundamentally different from bulletproof or projectile-proof armor.

[commbatant]

Well, one of the warring parties has finally concluded that lightly armored APCs/IFVs are a thing of the past. I wonder who will get heavy APCs/IFVs based on the MBT first: the Ukrainian Armed Forces or ours?

[Ball]

Quote: commbatant

I wonder who will get heavy armored personnel carriers/infantry fighting vehicles based on the main battle tank first: the Ukrainian Armed Forces or ours?

Where from the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
1) Excess MBTs for conversion into APCs? Every tank, including all those dunghills like Leopards and Challengers, is worth its weight in gold.
2) developments on heavy armored personnel carriers/infantry fighting vehicles?
3) production capacity?
4) The friends/sponsors of the Ukrainian Reich from 56 countries of the world also do not have heavy infantry fighting vehicles/armored personnel carriers - no one can provide them

[commbatant]

Quote: Ball

Quote: commbatant

I wonder who will get heavy armored personnel carriers/infantry fighting vehicles based on the main battle tank first: the Ukrainian Armed Forces or ours?

Where from the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
1) Excess MBTs for conversion into APCs? Every tank, including all those dunghills like Leopards and Challengers, is worth its weight in gold.
2) developments on heavy armored personnel carriers/infantry fighting vehicles?
3) production capacity?
4) The friends/sponsors of the Ukrainian Reich from 56 countries of the world also do not have heavy infantry fighting vehicles/armored personnel carriers - no one can provide them

That's certainly true, but what about the Israeli Jews? They have old heavy infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armored personnel carriers (decommissioned), and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to move around in them easily, since they're based on the Soviet T-54, -55, and -62 medium tanks.

[Incvizitor]

We have a Kurgan dog with a boomerang for exhibitions.