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VIU-55 Munja | |
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Type | Combat engineering vehicle Armored personnel carrier |
Place of origin | Serbia & Russia |
Production history | |
Designer | Military Technical Institute |
Specifications | |
Mass | 32 tonnes & 38.3 tonnes |
Length | 6.20 m |
Width | 3.27 m |
Height | 2.05 m |
Crew | 2 + 6 passengers |
Armor | T-55 Hull |
Main armament | 3×7.62mm Zastava M84 machine gun, 30mm M-93 grenade launcher |
Engine | diesel 780 hp |
Suspension | torsion bar |
Operational range | 545 km |
Maximum speed | 50 km/h |
VIU-55 Munja (from Serbian: муња, lit. 'lightning') is a combat engineering vehicle produced by Serbia. VTI did the conceptual design of the Munja general-purpose engineer vehicle and the Technical Overhauling Institute "Čačak" built the vehicle. The main idea was converting the T-55 tank, using its main structure and subsystems and adding new components, equipment and devices to create a vehicle for entirely different purposes. Good terrain negotiating ability and ballistic protection of T-55 tank were retained, while engineer equipment and armament were refitted. Starting in 2004, about 210 of these vehicles were produced.[1] It was the first armoured vehicle for the Serbian engineer corps, outfitted with special purpose engineer equipment and a respectable armament belonging to the most modern designs of this kind.