Minibus (EADS CA90000D Armoured Personnel Carrier)

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Primary SupplierEADS
DesignationEADS CA90000D Minibus variants as transport, command, ambulance, VLS, nuclear power source.
RoleArmoured personnel carrier, built for internal volume

Many variants: transport, command post, ambulance and vertical-launch missile battery (VLS), mobile nuclear reactor. The rear ramp is 120 mm thick, 1.58 m wide and 1.77 m long, hinged at the floor, and lowered 15.9° to the ground. A central way leads into the cab, except in variants where the cargo area is filled with equipment. In the transport variant seats fold up, clearing 4.26 × 2.0 m of floor. Two hatches in the bay roof on the personnel variants
Length7.33 m
Width3.70 m over the skirts’ ERA
Height2.67 m to the roof; 3.15 m overall, to the head of the rear point-defence gatling
Mass emptyclassified
Mass combatTransport: 52.5 tonnes
Command: 51.9 tonnes
Ambulance: 51.8 tonnes
VLS: 59.2 tonnes
Crew2, in a cab on a deck 350 mm up, seated straighter (10°) with storage under them; their seats far enough apart for a crewman in kit to pass into the bay

Transport: 10 dismounts, 5 a side facing across the bay, in crew seats at a chair’s angle with fold-out footrests
Command: 4 operators at consoles, a map table and a mast
Ambulance: 4 stretchers, two high, and 2 attendants
VLS: no one in the bay
Operation
DriveAs the Leopard 4: tracks with a hub motor in every road wheel, 8 stations a side, and four hardpoints for weight-relieving EM pods, with the tracks always down
EnergyBatteries, fuel cells, LH2 tank across the hull ahead of the crew: 680 l, 48.2 kg of LH2, 1.6 MWh
Road speed65 km/h (18 m/s) cruising, 108 km/h (30 m/s) flat out, and as fast in reverse
Acceleration3 m/s²
ArmamentTransport, command and ambulance: point defence only

VLS: 119 sealed canisters in a 16 × 8 grid, with 9 cells left out for the launchers and the rear point-defence gatling; missiles 180 mm × 1.8 m, 50 kg each (est.), cold launch

Drones: 6 small and 2 recon drone boxes on the roof (the VLS has its cells’ lids instead)
Range
Point defenceTwo 12 mm tri-barrel gatlings, on the glacis and at the rear
ProtectionComposite armour. 300 ERA blocks. active defence with 2 launchers and 4 radar panels; NBC, mines and IED protection

Technical drawings

Perspective drawing of the APC, transport fit-out, seen from ahead and off its left side.
APC, transport fit-out: three-quarter front view, perspective, not to scale.