Polands new IFV the Borsuk BWP guessing its amphibious but uncertain because all the info about it is in gibberish aka Polish.
Not badly delayed, but yes Borsuk is an amphibious vehicle, the requirements of the army to have such so our industry developed it such.
It is the heaviest and best armored floating IFV in the world. The only vehicles that can beat in this category are already heavy IFVs.
With that said, the designers have made room for increased armor at the expense of floating capability.
A crew of three soldiers
A landing craft of six soldiers.
Armed with an unmanned ZSSWS-30 turret with 30mm Bushmaster II cannon with UKM-2000C machine gun and dual Spike missile launcher.
It's apparently based on the chassis of the South Korean K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer,
May I know where this information came from? I first hear that the Borsuk's chassis was modeled after the K9 chassis. They are really strongly different from each other, they just look similar but looking at their construction you can see a lot of differences.
It's supposed to be amphibious, since it's a belated replacement for the old BMP-1s
Heavily delayed is an understatement. Our BWP-1s are all the time in the form in which they were produced, that is, more than 50 years ago. Nothing and nothing has changed about them over the years.
No less fortunately, the Borsuk program started in 2014 and arrived until today.
Although there were disturbing rumors that the Ministry of Defense would buy Korean light BWPs which are far inferior to the Borsuk in every area but fortunately these were just rumors spread by the Korean media.