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Configuration
| Specification | Namer | OT-64 SKOT |
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| Type | Heavy armoured personnel carrier[source] | Wheeled amphibious armored personnel carrier[source] |
| Place of origin | Israel[source] | Czechoslovakia Poland[source] |
| In service | 2008–present[source] | 1963–present[source] |
| Used by | Israel Defense Forces[source] | See Operators[source] |
Bars compare reported quantities only. A larger figure does not make a system better; configurations and test conditions differ.
| Wars | Gaza War (2008–2009) Operation Protective Edge Gaza war 2026 Lebanon War[source] | Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Western Sahara War Uganda–Tanzania War Iran–Iraq War Operation Blue Star Insurgency in Punjab, India Syrian civil war Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine[source] |
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| Designer | Israel Military Industries[source] | — |
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| Manufacturer | IDF Ordnance (assembler)[source] | Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych (FSC) (Polish People's Republic)[source] |
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| Unit cost | $5 million[source] | $53,000 (vehicle's unit price for Morocco in 1967)[source] |
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| Produced | 2008–present[source] | 1963 – early 1970s[source] |
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| No. built | Up to 290 are currently operational 531 in total planned to be produced by 2027[source] | 4,500[source] |
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| Armor | Classified composite matrix of laminated ceramic – steel – nickel alloy + underlaid reactive armour . Sloped modular design.[source] | 6-13 mm[source] |
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| Main armament | Samson RCWS equipped with either 12.7 mm (0.50 in) M2 machine gun or Mk 19 grenade launcher[source] | 7.62 mm PKT machine gun and 14.5 mm KPV machine gun.[source] |
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| Secondary armament | 1 × 7.62 mm (0.300 in) FN MAG MG 1 × 60 mm (2.4 in) external mortar 12 × smoke grenades[source] | — |
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| Power/weight | 20 hp/tonne (15 kW/tonne)[source] | 12.4 hp/tonne[source] |
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| Payload capacity | 9 infantrymen[source] | — |
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| Suspension | Helical spring[source] | 8×8 or 8×4[source] |
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| Designed | — | 1959[source] |
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| Variants | — | See Variants[source] |
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