Fue presentado por ISRAEL, el Veh\u00edculo blindado para transporte de personal EITAN,<\/b> desarrollado como una plataforma multimisi\u00f3n blindada, de bajo costo, que permitir\u00e1 a ISRAEL equiparse con material propio y comenzar el progresivo reemplazo de los nobles pero antiguos M113, que ya han cumplido su ciclo. Se prev\u00e9 que el EITAN<\/b> est\u00e9 equipado con la nueva generaci\u00f3n de sistema de protecci\u00f3n Activa, bas\u00e1ndose en el existente y probado TROPHY, desarrollado por RAFAEL. Se prev\u00e9 adem\u00e1s que est\u00e9 equipado con un sistema de armas que incluya una torre aut\u00f3noma (RWS-Remote Weapon Station) con un arma de 30\/40mm con toda su dotaci\u00f3n de municiones y sensores. En el marco del programa del Ej\u00e9rcito de Tierra de Israel, se prev\u00e9 que el EITAN este provisto a las Fuerzas en un plazo de 5 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n
TEL AVIV \u2014 Israel unveiled Monday its indigenous Eitan demonstrator, a wheeled, actively protected armored personnel carrier (APC) that it hopes to purchase in vast quantities over the coming decade and beyond.<\/p>\n
At less than 35 tons, the 8×8 wheeled Eitan \u2014 Hebrew for steadfast \u2014 weighs and will cost nearly half that of new Merkava Mk4-based Namer heavy carriers now in production, according to the Ministry of Defense (MoD).<\/p>\n
Both new vehicles are designed to carry 12 infantrymen and will replace the thousands of M113s that still support the bulk of Israeli infantry forces.<\/p>\n
Brig. Gen. Baruch Matzliah, head of the MoD’s Tank Production Office that developed both vehicles, said Eitan \u201cwill be the most advanced, protected wheeled fighting tool in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the officer, Eitan was designed as a low-cost, multi-mission platform, which will allow Israel to equip itself with more vehicles\u00a0at a higher rate\u00a0in parallel to purchases of the Namer heavy APC.<\/p>\n
Eitan is expected to incorporate a new generation of active protection, based on the Trophy Active Protection System (APS) developed by state-owned Rafael. It also will feature an advanced, unmanned 30- or 40-millimeter turret and a full compliment of munitions and sensors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a lot lighter [than Namer] and will be designed to cost,\u201d Maj. Gen. Guy Zur, commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Ground Forces Command, told Defense News in an interview earlier this year. \u201cIt may be less good [as the Namer], but it will be affordable and allow us to equip a large part of our force.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matzliah said the project was borne from operational lessons learned from the 2014 Gaza war. Capable of unassisted road travel at more than 90 kilometers per hour, the Eitan \u2014 the first wheeled carriers in Israel\u2019s military history \u2014 \u201cenable fast, strategic mobility\u201d and are \u201ctailored to the existing threats in the arena,\u201d Matzliah said.<\/p>\n