Support for the Baobabs on the wheel chassis, which the military will receive next year, is to be the caterpillar mine transporters. Manufacturers of specified equipment may apply to the Armed Forces Agency for preliminary marketplace consultations to submit their offers. They have until February 14th.
Overlay Mining Transporter (TMN) Kroton.
The caterpillar miner is the equipment to be utilized by engineering troops. As required by the Army, the heart of the vehicle is to be computer controlled with a overhead miner strategy consisting of six pitchers. Each equipped with 20 cassettes containing a full of 1 100 MN-123 anti-tank mines.
Quick and with good facilities
The Polish Army expects that the transporter's propulsion strategy will consist, among others, of an integrated power-pack drive unit, a caterpillar road strategy allowing to travel on public roads, and the chassis will have a hydro-pneumatic suspension. The vehicle should be equipped not only with modern means of communication, but besides with an electronic strategy enabling the exchange of data with a ‘restricted’ clause up to 30 km away.
The Armed Forces Agency invites arms companies curious in providing the military with fresh caterpillar mine transporters for first marketplace consultations (the expression replaced the method dialog a fewer years ago) during which they will be able to present their solutions.
The talks are due until the end of May. In addition to the method parameters of equipment, representatives of the Armed Forces Agency will be peculiarly curious in logistics issues, which is not only the transportation agenda and acquisition cost, but besides the anticipation of servicing and repairing. Companies wishing to attend meetings may apply until 14 February.
A full mine, Kroton.
Currently, the Polish Army is equipped with 1 kind of overhead mine vehicles – these are embedded on the caterpillar chassis, more specifically on the chassis of the SPG-2A vehicle, the dump mine transporters (TMN) Kroton. Within 15 minutes, Kroton is able to deploy 400 minutes, thereby creating a barrier against the infantry or the enemy's armored troops.
Although the Polish manufacture has put quite a few effort in nearly 10 years of investigation and improvement (as of 1994) to meet Kroton's demands by the army, the military ordered only six vehicles. And started work on his circular version.
Although the Kroton-K task yet collapsed, the engineering troops returned to this subject after little than a decade. In order to reduce the plan time, companies have prepared a prototype vehicle called Baobab-K at their own expense, which in little than 20 minutes can build a 600-min anti-tank dam. Unfortunately, time has shown that this has not accelerated the acquisition of vehicles. by the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland. The Baobab prototype, then inactive called PMN (pledge mine platform), engineers from Huta Stalowa Wola presented publically in 2007 during the arms fair in Kielce. But 24 Baobaby-K army ordered only in 2023. The first 1 is to scope the units next year.
