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via Shepard Media.
Belarus company Monitor-Service has used the Defence Services Asia (DSA) exhibition in Kuala Lumpur to introduce its Mosquito family of Light Tracked Vehicles (LTVs) to ASEAN defence forces.Meh.
Speaking to Shephard at the show, Velery Grebenschikov, director of Monitor-Services, said the Mosquito LTV platform, completed three months prior to DSA, was designed to challenge the ex-Soviet MTLB light tracked vehicle.
‘We are trying to contact customers from Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries in this region. The Mosquito is completely new and being displayed for the first time at DSA,’ said Grebenschikov.
He explained the company had been negotiating with representatives from the Malaysian Armour Department during the course of DSA, although no contracts have been signed as yet.
The Belarus Special Forces had previously purchased 18 Mosquito 768s, the smallest of the family of vehicles.
The Mosquito LTV comes in three hull sizes including small (8.9-tons), medium (9.8-tons) and large (11.6-tons), in six-road wheel ‘open-top’, six-road wheel ‘enclosed’, and seven-road wheel ‘enclosed’ configurations.
All Mosquito LTVs are powered by a six-cylinder, four-stroke diesel engine that puts out 220kW at 2600 RPM. The vehicles are bulletproof and can be uparmoured upon request.
The small, open top LTVs can be armed with air defence systems and deployed for tactical reconnaissance, patrolling and force protection duties. Enclosed versions have reinforced weapon systems.
Medium-class Mosquitos are intended as support and recovery vehicles, as opposed to weapons platforms, as well as carrying out load transport duties, air defence and combat search and rescue.
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