Mountain Cat light amphibious ATV
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What units in China use Mountain Cat ATVs? Mountain and airborne units?
it's mostly used by airborne units I think. The entire family was developed to be transported on Mi-17 series helicopters
Here is the list based on what I found:
Army Air assault units:
Airborne:
Thanks a lot. I also see that the PLA uses 4x4s or even lighter vehicles for recon. At least for non-heavy units. I think that is a good thing. European militaries invested too much in commonality to the point they do questionable things. Here is Boxer recon variant. There is no way this vehicle is avoiding combat.
Those boxers are over 3m in height, 35 tons weight, woefuelly unsuited for covert operations let alone airborne/mountain.
I talked with German Joint Fire Support personel and they really hope the coming JFS Boxer variant is only supplementing and not replacing their Fennek based JFS teams in the long run due to its absurd size and that a proper small size (in Germany we have Wiesel) vehicle for reacon gets chosen/developed.
This Boxer as universal platform thingy as again a child of budgetary reasons in european militaries
The mountain cat allows Chinese soldiers to bring heavier firepower available to airborne units, and also can be used to out-maneuver opponents and be more flexible with their insertion/extraction pts.
It's not designed for a comfortable ride just a fast one. They there for a good time not a long time.
It's not designed for a comfortable ride just a fast one. They there for a good time not a long time.
As in integrated? AFAIK, no.
But the HJ-12 is meant to be carried by infantry so nothing is stopping them just loading up with some HJ-12s
