South Korea's Indigenous IFV K-21.

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Specifications
Weight 25 t (25 long tons; 28 short tons)
Length 6.9 m (23 ft)
Width 3.4 m (11 ft)
Height 2.6 m (8.5 ft)
Crew 3 crew + 9 passengers
Armor
Layers consisting of glass fiber reinforced ceramic armor All round protection against 14.5 mm API projectiles.

The frontal armour can resist from 30 mm APDS round fired from BMP-3

Roof protection can resist from 155 mm artillery shell fragments

Soft- and hard-kill anti-missile defense systems, ERA, NERA (only for the K21 PIP)
Main
armament
40 mm autocannon

200 rounds
Two ATGM launchers
Secondary
armament 7.62 mm machine gun
Engine Doosan- D2840LXE diesel
740 hp (840 hp for the PIP)
Power/weight 29,6 hp/tonne
Suspension In-arm Suspension Unit
Operational
range 500 km (310 mi)
Speed 70 km/h (43 mph) (road)
40 km/h (25 mph) (cross-country)
7 km/h (4.3 mph) (water)

Unit price $3.5 million

▲K21 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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CGs of future armoured fleet by Midal (http://blog.naver.com/bluegun777)

 

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Here is a latest performance board of the vehicle (Displayed in 2013)

Promotion Video (Eng dub)

Starts at 2:24

 

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One of the rare features on this vehicle is that it has an 360˚ maneuverable thermal sight on the side of the driver's seat which also can be linked to the monitor of the crew compartment.

Like so.

 

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TagStory - 차기 장갑차 K21 모습을 들어내다
TagStory - 차기보병전투장갑차 K21
TagStory - 차기 장갑차 K21의 주요 내부 부품

Some clips from it's early appearance in the public.

 

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K-21 has embedded training simulator which can help reduce both the time and resources needed for training vehicle crews.(+ more fun)

 

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3D transparent sectional view model of K-21

 

[BDforever]

very good development, i wish BD could buy it but it is little costly for us

 

[pokdo]

One of the main reasons why it costs more than the previous types of ifvs is due to it's mounting of electronic devices such as computers and other sort of things.
At the time when they started developing these stuffs, the concepts of these were so rare and only been used for some particular areas. But since the booming diffussion of portable smartphones in the public market and technology advances over a several years may now even abled producing some of those devices more advanced and sophisticated but affordable.
So the point is that the price tag can be changed whenever it can be.

The fact is, it still costs roughly 3 times less than some of it's european competitors...

 

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ICPS(Commander's Panoramic Sight) and commander's pannel of K-21

Thermal views from it (Notice the range).For the record, K-21 currently equips 3rd gen thermal sights.

and here's the IGPS(Gunner's Primary Sight).

 

[Khan_patriot]

It looks surprisingly roomy from the inside, I thought it would be restricting.....

 

[forcetrip]

Isnt $3.5m on the higher side for an IFV of that size?

 

[revojam]

No APS?

 

[pokdo]

Isnt $3.5m on the higher side for an IFV of that size?

If you're expecting the price of some kind of m2a2 surplus than you may insist so.
But it's more than that and if you look at it's equipments and functions or even small details you would notice immidiately that this price wasn't just came up by some foolish minds.
When it comes to the comparisons between vehicles with same abilities, like german made puma and infamous CV90 than you may rethink what you have just said.

No APS?

No upgrade plans currently. But there is a possibility that it could be mounted as an option.

 

[forcetrip]

If you're expecting the price of some kind of m2a2 surplus than you may insist so.
But it's more than that and if you look at it's equipments and functions or even small details you would notice immidiately that this price wasn't just came up by some foolish minds.
When it comes to the comparisons between vehicles with same abilities, like german made puma and infamous CV90 than you may rethink what you have just said.


No upgrade plans currently. But there is a possibility that it could be mounted as an option.

Could you be a dear and list prices of M2Bradley and Puma. Production costs, not export prices. It would be easier for readers to understand that way instead of chewing me out.