Warrior II (EADS CV20040C Infantry Fighting Vehicle)

A low tracked vehicle, lit by its own muzzle flash, fires an orange tracer across a dark valley between wooded hills.
An IFV firing its 40 mm gatling on a hillside at LZ Danjou, Celestia II.
Primary SupplierEADS
DesignationCV20040C Warrior II
RoleInfantry fighting vehicle

Droopy transportable, upto 8 dismounts.
Length7.33 m
Width3.70 m over the skirts’ ERA
Height2.04 m to the hull roof; 2.90 m to the turret roof; 3.00 m to the missile box; 3.16 m overall.
Mass emptyclassified
Mass combat51.4 tonnes, composite armour
Crew3: two in the front row and one behind

8 dismounts on fold-up seats, 4 a side, backs to the walls, facing across the bay; 1.36 m headroom
Operation[not set]
DriveAs the Leopard 4: tracks with a hub motor in every road wheel, 8 stations a side, and four hardpoints for EM pods for recovery etc.
EnergyBattery, LH2 tanks, fuel cells.
Road speed65 km/h (18 m/s) cruising, 108 km/h (30 m/s) max (both forward and reverse)
Acceleration3 m/s²
Armament40 mm L70 tri-barrel gatling on a trunnion over the turret. Elevation −8.25° to +90° ahead over the hull, −20.25° over the turret: 150–200, 600 or 900–1,000 rounds a minute (low, standard, and short anti-air bursts with proximity rounds). 1,280 caseless, binary-propellant rounds: 1,190 in the turret’s magazine and 90 in a ready box (30 proximity anti-air, 30 multipurpose HE, 30 APFSDS). Titanium barrels over steel liners; gun 2.57 tonnes.

Four general purpose missiles in a box on the turret.

Drones: 4 small and 2 recon drone boxes on the turret.
Range[not set]
Point defenceTwo 12 mm tri-barrel gatlings, on the glacis and on the turret’s bustle (it turns with the turret)
ProtectionComposite armour [threat level not set]; 227 ERA blocks; active defence with 2 launchers and 4 radar panels on the turret; NBC protection (est.); the magazine under a blow-out panel in the bustle’s roof; mines and IEDs [not set]

Technical drawings

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