weighing (depending on the hull length) 25 tonnes .
The vehicle has a 25% buoyancy headroom. The ex-
tra equipment (thrusters, buoyancy modules,
breakwater, air intake and exhaust covers and
pumps) weighs extra 900 kilograms. Meanwhile,
the heavier, non-amphibious variants can wade
through water up to 150 cm deep.
AMV-XP is 8.2 m long (amphibious variant), or 8.6 m
long (amphibious extended variant). The vehicle is
3.0 meters wide (width is limited by the width of the
train carriages), and it is 2.4 m high. The interior
has a volume ranging from 13.5 to 14.5 cubic me-
ters (extended length version).
Significant changes have also been made to the ar-
mour. It matches the STANAG 4569A/B Level IV -
the armour protects the crew within 360 degrees,
from the B32 rounds of the 14.5x114 mm ammuni-
tion; V=911 m/s, and from the fragmentation pro-
duced by a 155 mm artillery shell exploding 25 me-
ters from the vehicle. The vehicle also protects the
crew from IEDs and mines, as it can withstand an
explosion of up to 10 kilograms of TNT under a cer-
tain portion of the hull. The protection level can be
boosted to match the Level V - thus the armour
could save the crew from APDS-T 25x137 mm
rounds with V0 of 1335 m/s at 500 meters. This
would, unfortunately, increase the weight by 3,600
kilograms.
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