It has in-built medical facilities including continuous ECG monitoring, a ventilator, a suction unit to remove unwanted fluids, a DC refrigerator for preserving drugs, and an air-conditioner with optional heating facility.
Seating configurationedit
It has a seating capacity of 12 persons including two crew, two medical attendants and eight sitting patients, but this can vary depending on the number of stretcher patients, four stretcher patients only or two stretcher and four sitting patients.
It retains the turret but without the gun or smoke grenade launchers. The ambulance can cross a variety of terrains and even traverse water with the same mobility as Sarath Infantry Combat Vehicles. Its features include a special blower and absorbent filter for nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) protection, and external and internal radio communication for navigation.
Development and deploymentedit
The first prototype was ready in December 2005; it had to undergo several changes before a trial in September 2006. Three years and 56 modifications later, on 21 August 2009, 10 vehicles were rolled out ready to be used by the Indian Army. The Indian Army has placed an indent for 275 armoured tracked ambulances. It is also Similar to BMP-2
drdo, armoured, ambulance, tracked, military, ambulance, based, sarath, chariot, victory, indian, license, produced, variant, designed, combat, vehicles, research, development, establishment, cvrde, branch, defence, research, development, organisation, drdo, m. The DRDO Armoured Ambulance is a tracked military ambulance based on Sarath Chariot of Victory Indian license produced variant of BMP 2 Designed by the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment CVRDE a branch of the Defence Research and Development Organisation DRDO it is manufactured at the Ordnance Factory Medak Armoured Ambulance Tracked Vehicle This article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources DRDO Armoured Ambulance news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message Contents 1 Equipment 2 Seating configuration 3 Development and deployment 4 See also 5 External linksEquipment editIt has in built medical facilities including continuous ECG monitoring a ventilator a suction unit to remove unwanted fluids a DC refrigerator for preserving drugs and an air conditioner with optional heating facility Seating configuration editIt has a seating capacity of 12 persons including two crew two medical attendants and eight sitting patients but this can vary depending on the number of stretcher patients four stretcher patients only or two stretcher and four sitting patients It retains the turret but without the gun or smoke grenade launchers The ambulance can cross a variety of terrains and even traverse water with the same mobility as Sarath Infantry Combat Vehicles Its features include a special blower and absorbent filter for nuclear biological and chemical NBC protection and external and internal radio communication for navigation Development and deployment editThe first prototype was ready in December 2005 it had to undergo several changes before a trial in September 2006 Three years and 56 modifications later on 21 August 2009 10 vehicles were rolled out ready to be used by the Indian Army The Indian Army has placed an indent for 275 armoured tracked ambulances It is also Similar to BMP 2See also editBMP 2External links edithttp www thehindu com news national article7118 ece https web archive org web 20101225052559 http www drdo gov in drdo labs CVRDE English index jsp pg achieve jsp nbsp This military article about the Indian Armed Forces is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title DRDO Armoured Ambulance amp oldid 1169858511, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
