South Korea's Indigenous IFV K-21.

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[Documentary] Stories on Development of K-21 (korean)

 

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This picture here is allegedly to be a PIP version for the K-21.

You may notice that there's going to be a significant improvement expected on the vehicle's survivability.

here's another version with more detailed and scalable pose

 

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photos taken at the training exercise of Capital Mechanized Infantry Division conducted last month

wow it's been a long time since I last posted on here :o

 

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photos taken at the training exercise of Capital Mechanized Infantry Division conducted last month

wow it's been a long time since I last posted on here :o

Would like to see more of the systems inside.

 

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I'll be posting more whenever there is a new update. thanks

 

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South Korea has no enemies

 

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South Korea has no enemies

We do and they share same language with us

 

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We do and they share same language with us

North Korea isn't much of a threat

 

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Here's some extra photos of the same content I found on here.
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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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Does this IFV use any American or European made components??

 

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Does this IFV use any American or European made components??

Not so sure but I've heard that the engine is a licensed product of MAN D2840 and the tansmission is domestically enhanced version of Bradley(IFV)'s