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According to a press release published by Rheinmetall Defense from Germany on August
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19, 2020, Hungarian Armed Forces have signed an agreement with German company Rheinmetall
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Defense to produce Linz's IAV infantry fighting vehicle. The deal helps the Hungarian Army meet its NATO commitments through continued modernization
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of the country's defense industry. Welcome at our booth at the IDET
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The Linz KF41, it's on tour now for some time. We unveiled it in 2018 at the Eurosatory, in a big event
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And we have done in the meantime some tests, some presentations, some changes already
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So that we brought to the IDET a customized version for the Czech tender
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So again, starting from the top, it's a Linz 2.0 turret equipped with a Rheinmetall MK30-2
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airburst capable machine cannon. We have the Spike Long Range ATGM. We have here a specific capability because our turret can host up to four Spike Long
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Range ATGM ready to fire. And we have this concept like for a fighter jet
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We don't have ATGM launchers, we have mission pods. So within this mission pod, you can decide what kind of, what type of weapon you are
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carrying, what type of system you would like to carry. So then with the chassis, it's the KF41 chassis, which means it's capable of within the 40
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ton class, boosted by a Liebherr 850 kilowatt engine with a rank transmission, DST lightweight
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steel tracks. So this is very standard design, everything there, common chassis with the flexibility
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to change the vehicle within a certain amount of time, less than one working day from an
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infantry variant to another variant, to a non-turret variant, for example. So this is actually the unique point for the Linz
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And this is why we think that the Linz is perfectly fitting for the Czech requirement
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to replace the BMP-2. It's new, and that does not mean that there are some child disease or something
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That means just it's modern, it's capable, it offers growth potential. And this is, let's say, actually the big strong point of the Linz, so that it's definitely new
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It's definitely the most capable vehicle at the moment in the competition
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It offers a lot of growth potential because this vehicle needs to stay in the army for
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the decades to come. And therefore, you should not start with a vehicle that has some age into a solution
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that shall remain in your forces and protect your forces for the coming years
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All the components we have in there, they are in service in a lot of other vehicles
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of other nations. They are in service, they are proven, they are reliable
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So therefore, again, we just composed them into a modern vehicle, modular, adaptable
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and that will compete with the threats of the future. So therefore, I think that this is definitely the right solution
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