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The Multi-Purpose Combat Vehicle (MPCV) is an armoured high-mobility 4×4 vehicle designed to carry 4 to 10 people.

MPCV is available in 4 versions: Personnel Carrier, Command Post, Air-defence Vehicle and Ambulance.

MPCV allows to carry the MBDA Mistral anti-aircraft weapon system.

MPCV is 6.2m long and 2.5m high. It has a GVM of 13 tons and reaches a maximum speed of 90 km/h.

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3 years ago
Wheels&Tracks

11 июн. 2016 г.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMdrmamTEE

3 years ago
Wheels&Tracks

17/11/2013

MBDA has just completed the integration and factory acceptance test of the first Multi-Purpose Combat Vehicle (MPCV) vehicles designed to operate the Mistral surface to air missile. Built for export, these vehicles represent the first production batch. In the next few days, they will be shipped for delivery to the customer country before the end of the year, as announced at the contract signing in February 2011.

In parallel, MBDA is completing the installation of a final assembly line in the customer country so that the customer will be able to carry out the final integration of its own combat vehicles using MBDA provided MPCV kits. In Bourges, MBDA personnel have also trained the customer’s technical staff during the integration of the first MPCVs.

The MPCV, developed by MBDA in cooperation with Rheinmetall Defence Electronics (RDE) of Germany, has been designed to meet emerging requirements for a highly mobile weapon system which can be adapted for different missions, either air defence or land combat, depending on the type of missiles it operates. The first development, which is now being delivered, is aimed at air defence and comprises a motorized and stabilized turret that includes electro-optical sensors, a small caliber gun and four, ready-to-fire Mistral missiles with four more missiles stored in the vehicle for re-loading. Additional versions dedicated to land combat are planned for development.

This automatic system in its air defence configuration was validated by several Mistral missile firings, including the engagement in only a few seconds, of two targets approaching simultaneously from two different directions. The success of this test demonstrated MPCV’s ability to counter a saturating attack.

Mistral is a short-range (6 kmclass) surface-to-air missile capable of intercepting a wide variety of aerial targets including those with even a low infrared signature. It is characterised by an outstanding success rate (96% from more than 4,500 live firings), a high effectiveness against manoeuvring targets, and has demonstrated its capabilities against fixed-wing aircraft, nap-of-the-earth helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles as well as moving land vehicles and Fast Inshore Attack Craft at sea.

Mistral, in its land, naval and airborne applications, has been selected by 40 armed forces of 28 countries. More than 17,000 missiles have been produced.

https://www.mbda-systems.com/press-releases/mbda-delivers-first-mpcvs-in-surface-to-air-configuration/

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