Armoured Recovery Vehicle (ARV)

Taurus Armoured Recovery Vehicle (ARV)The Taurus ARV was designed to undertake the following roles:

• ?recovering vehicles disabled by enemy action or mechanical failure, or that are bogged down;
• ?towing disabled vehicles;
• changing components such as power packs and turrets. (A replacement Leopard power pack is carried on the rear decking and a complete engine change can be carried out in less than 30 minutes);
• ?carrying out dozing operations;
• fuelling vehicles.

Armament:

• 1 x 7.62-mm co-axially mounted machine-gun (C6)
• 1 x 7.62-mm crew commander\’s machine-gun (C6)
• 6 x 76-mm grenade launchers

Specifications:

• Length: 7.57 m
• Width: 3.25 m
• Height: 2.7 m (including turret mounted machine gun)
• Crew: 4
• Weight: (with spare power pack)
• (empty) 39,200 kg
• (combat weight) 39,800 kg
• Max speed: (road) 62 km/h
• Range: 850 km
• Fuel capacity: 1,410 litres
• Engine: Multi-fuel engine, 10 cylinders, 830 hp