VEC-M1

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VEC-M1
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Spanish Army's VEC in Spanish Armed Forces's day 2022 parade in Madrid
Type Armoured fighting vehicle
Place of origin Spain
Production history
Unit cost483,000 EUR
Specifications
Mass13.7 tonnes (13.5 long tons; 15.1 short tons)
Length6.1 metres (20 ft)
Width2.5 metres (8.2 ft)
Height2.5 metres (8.2 ft)
Crew5 (commander, gunner, driver and two scouts)

Armor Steel (turret)
Aluminium alloy (hull)
Power/weight19.5 horsepower per tonne (14.5 kW/t)
Payload capacity17 tonnes (17 long tons; 19 short tons)
Transmission Six-wheel drive
Fuel capacity400 litres (110 US gal)
Operational
range
800 kilometres (500 mi)
Maximum speed 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)
Spanish Army's VEC in Spanish Armed Forces's day 2008 parade in Zaragoza. VEC Zaragoza.jpg
Spanish Army's VEC in Spanish Armed Forces's day 2008 parade in Zaragoza.

The Pegaso VEC-M1 is a Spanish military cavalry reconnaissance vehicle. It started service in the Spanish Army in 1980 as BMR-625 VEC (a.k.a. Pegaso 3562) and all of them were upgraded in late 1990s to the M1 version.

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Technical characteristics

VEC is based on BMR. Spanish Army BMR-600 DF-SD-04-06607.JPEG
VEC is based on BMR.

The vehicle was developed and produced by Pegaso, now Iveco, as a derivative of the well-known Pegaso BMR. It is a 6x6, currently powered by a 315 hp Scania DS9 diesel 6-cylinder engine, disposed in the rear right side of the hull, which replaced the original Pegaso 306 hp engine.

It mounts an automatic 25 mm chain gun (M242 Bushmaster) into a two-man turret and a coaxial 7.62 mm MG3S machine gun. Six electrically fired smoke grenade launchers are located on the sides of the turret, three on the left side and three on the right. It had amphibious ability, as two hydrojets for displacement in water were an optional equipment.

The crew in composed by five men: the commander, the gunner, the driver and two scouts.

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