04 September 2007

Army Open House 2007: Bionix Launch Bridge I



Bridging vehicle based on the Bionix chassis.


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2 comments:

Jonathan Yuen said...

The BLB is definately a step-up from the awful SLB (SM1 Launched Bridge) which was severely unbalanced and whose span length was quite pathetic

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

You do realise that the Bionix Launch Bridge (BLB) will not have the capability of supporting our Leopard 2A4 MBTs?


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Information taken from the Army-Technology website:

22M MEDIUM ASSAULT BRIDGE
The Class 30 Medium Assault Bridge is currently in production. It is assembled on Singapore Technologies Kinetics' Bionix Infantry Fighting Vehicle and is adaptable to other light tanks.

Design features include:

Telescopic launching girder
Class 30 aluminium bridge
Class 60 crossing possible using 2 bridges
22 m bridge length
Launch time less than 10 minutes
No hydraulic parts in the bridge
Horizontal launching
Launch-under-armour capability
System weight MLC 30 using 18t tank