Designation: | RPX 6000 |
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Manufacturer: | LOHR Industrie | |
Product type: | Armoured Vehicles | |
Name: | Reconnaissance Vehicle |
The RPX 6000 (4 x 4) Vehicule Blinde LSger a Roues (VBLR) has been developed as a private venture by the LOHR company and was shown for the first time at the 1981 Satory Exhibition of Military Equipment. By early 1999 five prototypes of the RPX 6000 had been completed, but volume production had yet to commence.
The vehicle has an all-welded steel hull with the three-man crew compartment at the front and the engine compartment at the rear. The driver is seated at the front of the hull and has a bulletproof windscreen to his front and sides which, in action, are covered by hinged flaps raised by the driver from inside the vehicle. There is a single-piece hatch cover over the driver's position. In either side of the hull is a two-part entry hatch, the upper part folding to the rear and the lower part folding downwards to form a step. There is a circular roof hatch in the centre of the hull roof on which a variety of armament installations can be mounted including a SAMM BTM 208 one-man turret (former designation S 365-1) armed with a 12.7 mm and a 7.62 mm machine gun, a Helio turret with a 12.7 mm machine gun and external grenade launchers, turret-mounted 20 mm cannon, 60 mm breech-loaded mortar and other light turrets not exceeding a diameter of 1.28 m. It can also be fitted with the Giat Industries 20 mm Capre turret armed with a 20 mm cannon (500 rounds) and a 7.62 mm machine gun (2,000 rounds). Optional equipment includes an NBC system, night vision equipment and an amphibious capability.
Variants of the RPX 6000 suggested by the manufacturer include a command vehicle, a personnel carrier, a radar vehicle, a command/radio vehicle and a recovery .vehicle. The RPX 6000 D is powered by a BMW turbocharged diesel developing 125 hp at 4,800 rpm giving a maximum road speed of 90 km/h and range of 800 km.
More recently, one example of the RPX 6000 scout car has been modified. This now has a single oval-shaped roof hatch that opens to the rear above the driver's position.
In either side of the hull, to the rear of the driver's position, are three rectangular bulletproof windows. In the hull side, between the front and rear roadwheels, is a firing port with an associated vision block above.
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Development complete. Ready for production.
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