Hungary-developed light-armored combat vehicles have been presented in Budapest

Budapest (MTI) – Gamma Technology Ltd. and the Hungarian Defense Industry Association presented their Hungary-developed light-armored combat vehicles capable of military, civil protection, border control, counter-terror and police tasks in Budapest on Wednesday.

Attila Zsitnyanyi, president of the association who is also the CEO of Gamma Ltd., told MTI: light-armored vehicle has not been developed in Hungary almost in forty years. The president of the association hopes it can open a new chapter of the Hungarian defense industry.

The aim of the association and Gamma Ltd., the dominant company of the Hungarian defense industry is “the development of a multi-purpose cross-country vehicle family can be equipped with ballistic protection” and which meets the application principles of NATO and the needs of the Hungarian Army as well. Within this framework, the ready versions of a four-wheel-drive ambulance and a six-wheel-drive base vehicle were presented. In addition, another – but not yet completely finished – development was recommended to domestic professionals of the defense bodies: a special, domestically-developed vehicle equipped with radar which, among other things, can help in border surveillance too.

Attila Zsitnyanyi said about the two combat vehicles: the prototypes have been made in cooperation with more than 280 employees (including 79 engineers) of 90 Hungarian companies in the past four years. The four-wheel-drive vehicle was presented as an ambulance on Wednesday; its predecessor developed in 2012 was bought by Paks Power Plant, MTI wrote.

Speaking about the other, six-wheeled vehicle, the CEO of Gamma highlighted: due to its elaboration and universal swap body, it is capable of chemical protection, disaster management, but also of military – including missionary – tasks as well. It can be equipped with technical rescue units, with so-called vegetation fire extinguishing structures, ambulance and snow plows. It is able to move on any terrain, even under winter weather conditions. The vehicle is chargeable up to ten tons, plus it can lug along up to forty tons, and the design protects the occupants – CEO of Gamma said.

He stressed: the production of the Hungary-developed light-armored combat vehicles have professional, economic and political advantages as well. For example, it strengthens the domestic engineering and military engineering knowledge, it contributes to the Hungarian Army has bigger equipment and devices can be mobilized to perform the country’s defense tasks, it helps the keeping and expanding of workplaces and it generates tax revenues.

based on the article of MTI
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