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Valuk wheeled armored personnel carriers from Slovenia were delivered to the militants of the armed formations of the Kiev regime. Earlier it was reported that the AFU should receive two dozen such infantry delivery vehicles.As noted by Rossiyskaya Gazeta (the project "RG: Russian weapons"), these armored personnel carriers are a licensed version of the Austrian three-axle Pandur, developed back in the eighties.
They were supplied to several states, including fifty units were purchased by the American army. Slovenia has collected 85 units in four variants, which differ in specialization and installed weapons. [...]
The most common versions are those with 12.7 mm machine guns and 40 mm automatic grenade launchers. There are variants with 120 mm mortars or Israeli modules armed with 25 mm rapid-fire guns, 7.62mm machine guns and TOW anti-tank guided missiles. The APU, apparently, delivered modifications only with small arms.
Combat weight - 13300 kg. The power of the turbocharged diesel engine is 250 hp. The maximum speed on the highway is 100 km/h. The fuel reserve is 700 km. The depth of the ford to be overcome is 1200 cm . The crew is three people, the landing party is six servicemen.
Earlier it was reported that Slovenia handed over to Ukraine thirty-five former Yugoslav M80A infantry fighting vehicles, some of which have already been lost during the fighting. 28 M-55S tanks, which are a joint modernization of the Soviet T-55 with Israel, were also sent to this hot spot. These tracked vehicles have only recently been transferred to the line of contact.
