MS-20 Daglezja
The MS-20 Daglezja is a Polish armoured vehicle-launched bridge mounted on the Jelcz C662 wheeled chassis in service with the Polish Army since 2012.
History
The Daglezja program began in 2002, at the request of the Department of Armament Policy of the Ministry of National Defense, OBRUM began to develop tactical and technical assumptions for a modern automotive bridge set. Research and development work began in 2003, and in 2004 a bridge model and the first prototype were created.Due to the failure to provide the quality and planned mass of the set the program was discontinued. Therefore, OBRUM made a second attempt to thoroughly rebuilt prototype from its own funds in 2008. After successfully passing the tests in 2010, the Department of Armament Policy of the Ministry of National Defense signed an agreement with OBRUM for the further work on the prototype, this culminated in the delivery of two vehicles to Polish army.
The first bridge was taken over on 20 November 2012 and sent to the Engineering and Chemical Troops Training Centre in Wrocław, and the second one was handed over on 10 December 2012. The second one was eventually delivered to the 2nd Engineer Battalion in Stargard the same year. After 2 prototypes were delivered, 10 series bridges were delivered in 2017.
Based on the accompanying bridge, a whole family of bridges is being built, including an assault bridge on the MG-20 Daglezja-G tracked chassis, the MS-40 support bridge, and the Daglezja-P pontoon bridge. The prototype of the assault bridge was built in 2011. After tests, in 2018, the prototype was to be converted to a serial standard and a second copy was to be built.
Construction details
MS-20 Daglezja is a companion bridge on a wheeled chassis. The entire set consists of: a Jelcz C662D.43-M tractor unit in a 6×6 configuration, a bridge semi-trailer, a bridge layer and the PM-20 span. The PM-20 span was made in such a way that its width can be changed, in the transport position it is 3 m, and in the working position 4 m. In addition, the span has fillings between the girders, enabling, for example, the passage of people and vehicles.The bridge enables securing crossings or overcoming obstacles up to 20 m wide by tracked vehicles exerting a load of the MLC70 class and wheeled vehicles or their combinations exerting a load of the MLC110 class.
Specifications
- span width:
- * 3 m
- * 4 m
- span weight: 15 tons
- span length: 23 m
- load capacity :
- * 70MLC for tracked vehicles
- * 110MLC for wheeled vehicles