The Army has floated a Request for Information (RFI) to purchase Protected Mobility Vehicles (PMV) for high-altitude areas and for deserts and plains.<\/span><\/p>\n The PMV is essentially a wheeled armoured personnel carrier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It provides protection to the soldiers travelling inside the vehicle from mine blasts and sudden attacks by small arms.<\/span><\/p>\n The PMVs must have ballistic protection and should be able to protect the vehicle from grenade and mine blasts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It should have a maximum speed of 90 km on road and 40 km per hour on cross country terrain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They should be able to operate in temperature ranges of 40 degrees centigrade to minus 15 degrees in high-altitude areas.<\/span><\/p>\n The PMV should be able to ford in water with a depth of 1000 mm without any special preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n India has the capability of producing PMVs.\u00a0<\/span>In April 2022, the Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) handed over the first of such Infantry Protected Mobility Vehicles(IPMVs) to the Chief of Army Staff.<\/span><\/p>\n Hence, TASL is now the first private sector company in the country to produce IPMV in collaboration with the DRDO.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Explained: What are the Protected Mobility Vehicles that the Army wants to purchase?<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express<\/b> on<\/span> 13th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Army has floated a Request for Information (RFI) to purchase Protected Mobility Vehicles (PMV) for high-altitude areas and for deserts and plains. What are Protected Mobility Vehicles(PMV)? The PMV is essentially a wheeled armoured personnel carrier.\u00a0 It provides protection to the soldiers travelling inside the vehicle from mine blasts and… Continue reading Explained: What are the Protected Mobility Vehicles that the Army wants to purchase?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-184230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704887607},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are Protected Mobility Vehicles(PMV)?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the technical specifications of PMVs?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Does India produce PMV vehicles?<\/b><\/h5>\n