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YP408 (8 x 6) armored personnel carrier

Country of Origin: Netherlands

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The Dutch YP408 is an 8 x 6 wheeled armored personnel carrier that wasreplaced by the tracked YPR 765 armored infantry fighting vehicle. The basic YP408 was dubbed the PanserWagen Infantrie-Standard (PWI-S) by the Dutch. One of the few wheeled APCs that was not powered on all axles, the DAF-built YP408 offered a mixture of conventional and unusual features.

The engine was mounted under a prominent housing breaking the plane of a sharply sloped glacis. The longitudinal drive train...

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