The vehicle ALIGATOR 4x4 is a light rapid wheeled armoured amphibious transporter. The vehicle has been designed to undertake a wide range of roles on the battlefield including reconnaissance, command and control, missile launching and police tasks.
The armoured all-welded steel hull provides the crews with protection from small arms fire up to 7.62 mm armour-piercing rounds, shell fragments and against antipersonnel mines. The ballistic protection of the crew compartment could be significantly enhanced by utilization of the additional special steel or ceramic plates. The floor of the crew compartment is of double thickness to provide increased protection against mines.
The engine compartment is at the front with the crew compartment at the rear. The standard Deutz water-cooled diesel engine is coupled to a Renk automatic transmission as one exchange unit. Automatic transmission allows 6 gears forward and one gear backward.
The crew consist of the commander, driver, gunner and the vehicle can carry three other fully equipped infantry men. The commander is seated on the right with the driver on the left The driver and commander have a single-piece hatch covers which opens upwards above theirs positions. The driver has a roof-mounted periscope for forward observation located above his seat. The commander and driver are each provided with a large bulletproof window to their front and a door in the side that opens forwards. In the upper part of the door there is a large bulletproof window. All the bulletproof windows provide the same level of protection as the all-welded steel hull. The troop compartment is at the rear and the way of entry and exit is via a larger door that opens to the left. The rear door and either side of the troop compartment are provided with a firing port and vision device. In the rear part of the roof is a single-piece hatch cover that opens towards the rear. A bank of three electrically operated smoke dischargers can be mounted in either side of the hull towards the rear.
Vehicle can be equipped with a circular low-profile cupola with a circular hatch cover that opens forwards the rear and on the front part can be mounted a 7.62 mm machine gun. Run-flat cores are fitted at the wheel discs. The central tyre-pressure regulation system enables to adjust the pressure to suit the terrain. The vehicle is airportable in various transport aircrafts and some types of helicopters.
