With a advanced degree of ballistic resistance, Borsuk's combat car is doing large in hard terrain and alone overcomes water obstacles. This year on MSPO it can be seen only at the stand of Huta Stalowa Wola. Will the fresh BWP be part of the Polish Armed Forces exhibition from the next edition of the fair? There's quite a few points.
Combat infantry vehicles, i.e. caterpillar vehicles, which have quite a few firepower, are able to deliver multiple landings rapidly and safely in the area of combat, are next to primary tanks (such as German Leopard, French Leclerc or British Challenger) and wheeled armored transporters (such as Finnish Patria, Austrian Pandura, Turkish Army or German-Dutch Boxery) 1 of the business contacts of European defence companies.
As many as 10 countries on the Old Continent (including the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Estonia) reached for a CV90 vehicle manufactured since the early 1990s (and continuously improved). On the marketplace we inactive have the offer of the German Rheinmetall – Lynx vehicle, the Spanish Ascod car and the German-French (KNDS) caterpillar variant Boxer. The youngest in this household is Borsuk, and Polish engineers may have reason to be proud, due to the fact that according to manufacture experts it is 1 of the most modern fighting infantry vehicles on the market.
The Vistula Predator
This vehicle is about 7.6 m long, 3.4 m wide and weighs 25 t. Thanks to the MTU 8V199 TE20 engine with a power of 720 hp, it is able to travel on paved roads at a velocity of about 65 km/h. Its crew consists of 3 soldiers – commander, driver and mark (shooter), and the transported landing organization can number up to six people, or team.
The Borsuk armour meets the Natovian standards of Stanag 4569 level 3 (on the side of the vehicle) and Stanag 4569 level 4 (on the front of the car), thus providing protection against shelling of hand grenade launchers and explosions of improvised explosives and mines.
Badsuk's weaponry is an unmanned ZSSW-30 tower, which, apart from the ATK Bushmaster II automatic cannon, is 30 mm caliber and a 7.62 mm UKM-200C caliber firearm is equipped with a double guided anti-tank rocket launcher.
What distinguishes Badsuka from another European armed companies presently offering combat infantry cars is the ability to overcome water obstacles independently. No another European BWP can do this, and as a consequence must benefit from the assistance of bomb squads who will build a crossing for it. Importantly, Badger can not only swim, but it does it comparatively quickly, which, at the desanction on the enemy shore, has tremendous significance. The Polish car can scope a maximum velocity of 8 km/h in water.
National method Thought
Borsuk's past dates back to 2012, erstwhile the Ministry of National Defence approved another plan to replace BWP-1 with a fresh construction in the Armed Forces of Poland. The method Modernisation Plan 2012–2022 envisaged the acquisition of around 800 copies at the end of the second decade of the 21st century.
In 2013, the National Centre for investigation and improvement announced a competition for a investigation and improvement programme "prototype of a fresh floating infantry car". It was won by a consortium led by Huta Stalowa Wola, which was besides created by: Rosomak S.A., Military Motorization Plant S.A., Military Electronic Plants S.A., Military Engineering Plant S.A. and Military Institute of Armoured and car Technology, investigation and improvement Centre of Mechanical Devices - OBRUM Sp. z o.o., Military method Academy, National Defence Academy and Warsaw University of Technology.
The agreement assumed that the ready-to-production car would enter the army in 2019, and based on its construction were to be designed specialized versions: reconnaissance car, command, medical evacuation, contamination recognition, method security, engineering designation and self-propelled mortar.
The Borsuka model was first shown publically in 2017 at the global Defence manufacture Salon in Kielce. A year later, the vehicle technology demonstrator began mill trials, and 3 years later military tests and tests.
Framework agreement for the transportation of a 1000 Badgers signed on 28 February 2023. It foresees that the series deliveries of wagons are to start in 2024, and in addition to the combat version of the BWP, the military is to receive 4 100 specialist vehicles, including: Żuk reconnaissance transporters, Oset command vehicles, Gotem medical evacuation vehicles, Gekon method safety wagons and Ares contamination transporters. According to MON's announcements, the executive agreement is to be signed by the end of the year.
