Engineers at the Abu Zaabal Tank Repair Factory, which in the past produced under license the Abrams tank, have developed a new vehicle which resembles partly to the BMP-1 but has been entirely designed and developed, and is going to be produced in Egypt. Also known as Factory 200, hence the name SENA 200, the company that depends from the Ministry of Military Products worked hand in hand with the Egyptian Army Research and Development Centre. “Although we started from the BMP-1, this vehicle is totally different,” told EDR On-Line the programme manager, and has a much higher ballistic protection, not to speak about mine protection which in the Soviet vehicle was inexistent,” he added. In fact the SENA 200 has an all-round Level 4 ballistic protection according to STANAG 4579; as for RPGs, the new IFV can be fitted with stand-off nets all around, a solution not shown at EDEX, probably due also to the considerable increment in dimensions, the company booth being already overcrowded with systems. According to Factory 200, the net has an aerial density of 12 kg/m2 and ensures an 85% probability against rocket-propelled grenades; nets are produced in aramid fibres, nodes being reinforced by steel masses, a solution adopted by more than one manufacturer around the world.
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