Rolls-Royce is increasing its mtu Collection 199 right into a full product household with a wider energy vary for each new navy land automobiles and repowering present platforms, the corporate said.
In keeping with Rolls-Royce, the mtu Collection 199 will in future embody 4 cylinder variants providing outputs from 260 to 1,300 kW. On the DSEI exhibition in London, Flensburger Fahrzeugbau (FFG) is exhibiting a modernised Leopard 1 tank retrofitted with an 8-cylinder mtu 199 producing 800 kW.
The corporate stated this marks essentially the most highly effective drive but put in in a Leopard 1 chassis.
Knut Müller, Senior Vice President Governmental Enterprise at Rolls-Royce Division Energy Techniques, was quoted within the press launch as saying: “The mtu Collection 199 is an unprecedented success story. With hundreds of engines delivered, for instance for the ‘Boxer’ and the variants based mostly on it, it’s the most profitable engine sequence in its class. We’re constructing on this success and creating additional fashions on this sequence with 10 and 12 cylinders and outputs of over 1,000 kW.”
He added: “We see a excessive and pressing demand for these engines at cheap price from quite a few armies that we provide, each for brand spanking new automobiles and for the modernisation of present ones. As a result of want for a lot of NATO and allied nations to adapt their armed forces to the present menace state of affairs, the demand for engines for navy land automobiles is rising quickly.”
Rolls-Royce said that the upgraded 8V199 has already been elevated from 530 to 600 kW, and now to 800 kW. A ten-cylinder variant, the 10V199, is in growth for automobiles requiring as much as 1,100 kW, whereas a 12-cylinder mannequin is being developed for heavy fundamental battle tanks and assist automobiles requiring 1,300 kW.
Müller commented: “Our clients can anticipate 1,300 kW of energy from us. The efficiency of this mtu engine will eclipse the whole lot that has been obtainable in navy drives to this point. We anticipate it to be obtainable in just some years.”
The corporate stated increasing the sequence right into a unified household would assist NATO clients searching for logistical uniformity by limiting drive system selection and decreasing spare half necessities throughout wheeled and tracked automobile fleets.