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The Dardo is equipped with a 25mm gun turret, a 7.62mm machine gun and two TOW anti-tank missile launchers. It weighs 23.4 tons and carries up to 9 soldiers: the driver and commander plus 7 troops. Variants like a mortar carrier or a tank hunter are being considered. A TOW missile being fired from a Jeep. ...
Weight: 23,4 t
Crew: 2 + 7 fully equipped soldiers
Armament: 25 mm cannon, 7.62mm coaxial machine gun, 2 TOW launchers
The Dardo is a Infantry Fighting Vehicle designed for the Italian Army as a replacement for the M113 APC designed and built by the IvecoFiat Oto Melara Syndicated Company based in Rome.
The Dardo is primarily armed with the 25mm Oerlikon KBA automatic cannon firing 600 rounds per minute, with 200 rounds of ammunition stored in the turret ready to fire.
Dardos were deployed with the Italian Army as part of the Italian contribution to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004.
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