Canadian Forces Armoured Recovery Vehicle
Armoured Recovery Vehicle (ARV)
Taurus Armoured Recovery Vehicle (ARV)The Taurus ARV was designed to undertake the following roles:
* recovering vehicles disabled by enemy action or mechanical failure, or that are bogged down;
* towing disabled vehicles;
* changing components such as power packs and turrets. (A replacement Leopard power pack is carried on the rear decking and a complete engine change can be carried out in less than 30 minutes);
* carrying out dozing operations;
* fuelling vehicles.
Armament:
1 x 7.62-mm co-axially mounted machine-gun (C6)
1 x 7.62-mm crew commander's machine-gun (C6)
6 x 76-mm grenade launchers
Specifications:
Length: 7.57 m
Width: 3.25 m
Height: 2.7 m (including turret mounted machine gun)
Crew: 4
Weight: (with spare power pack)
(empty) 39,200 kg
(combat weight) 39,800 kg
Max speed: (road) 62 km/h
Range: 850 km
Fuel capacity: 1,410 litres
Engine: Multi-fuel engine, 10 cylinders, 830 hp
