EE-9 Cascavel
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The EE-9 Cascavel is a 6 x 6 armoured car developed in the seventies by Engesa of Brazil. It used as many commercially available parts as possible. It also shares many components with the EE-11 Urutu Armoured Personnel Carrier. The suspension includes Engesa's Boomerang double-axle rear drive.
In its most common configuration, the Cascavel III, it is equipped with an Engesa turret mounting a 90 mm Belgian Cockerill Mk 3 gun produced under licence.
Characteristics
- Armament: 1 x 90 mm, 1 x 7.62 mm MG (coaxial), 1 x 7.62 mm or 12.7 mm MG (anti-aircraft), 2 x 3 smoke grenade dischargers
- Ammunition: 44 x 90 mm, 2,200 x 7.62 mm
- Armour: 8 to 20 mm 2-layer steel
- Crew: 3
- Weight: 10,900 kg empty, 13,400 kg combat
- Length: 5.2 m hull, 6.2 m overall
- Width: 2.64 m
- Height: 2.68 m
- Wheelbase: 2.34 + 1.41 m
- Engine: Detroit Diesel 6V-53N, 6-cylinder water-cooled diesel, 212 hp (158 kW) at 2,800 rpm or
(Transmission was either from the ZF factory in Brasil or Detroit Diesel Allison MT643 automatic from the US.)
- Maximum speed: 100 km/h
- Fuel capacity: 390 L
- Range: 880 km
- Ground clearance: 0.34 m
- Vertical obstacle: 0.6 m
- Gradient: 60 %
- Side slope: 30 %
- Fording: 1 m
- NBC system: None
- Night vision: Optional (passive for commander)
Variants
- Cascavel I: Known as 'Cascavel Magro' (Thin Cascavel). Initial vehicles with the 37 mm gun from the old M3 light tanks.
- Cascavel II: Known as 'Cascavel Gordo' (Fat Cascavel). Widened to receive the French H 90 turret with a 90 mm DEFA D 921 gun for export.
- Cascavel III: Described above.
- Cascavel IV: New engine and transmission, improved day and night optics with laser rangefinder, and a 12.7 mm antiaircraft MG.
Operators
Colombia, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Peru, Qatar, Uruguay and probably other countries. It was used in the Iran-Iraq War and in the Persian Gulf War.External links
- [David R. Haugh - Cascavel EE-9 Armored Fighting Vehicle; Armored Car: The Wheeled Fighting Vehicle Journal Issue # 5 - May 1991]
- [Globalsecurity.org]
- () [Armyrecognition.com]
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