VIU-55 Munja

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VIU-55 Munja
Type	Combat engineering vehicle Armored personnel carrier
Place of origin	Serbia & Russia
Production history
Designer	Military Technical Institute
Specifications
Mass	32 tonnes & 38.3 tonnes
Length	6.20 m
Width	3.27 m
Height	2.05 m
Crew	2 + 6 passengers
Armor	T-55 Hull
Main armament	3×7.62mm Zastava M84 machine gun, 30mm M-93 grenade launcher
Engine	diesel 780 hp
Suspension	torsion bar
Operational range	545 km
Maximum speed	50 km/h

VIU-55 Munja (from Serbian: муња, lit. 'lightning') is a combat engineering vehicle produced by Serbia. VTI did the conceptual design of the Munja general-purpose engineer vehicle and the Technical Overhauling Institute "Čačak" built the vehicle. The main idea was converting the T-55 tank, using its main structure and subsystems and adding new components, equipment and devices to create a vehicle for entirely different purposes. Good terrain negotiating ability and ballistic protection of T-55 tank were retained, while engineer equipment and armament were refitted. Starting in 2004, about 210 of these vehicles were produced.^[1] It was the first armoured vehicle for the Serbian engineer corps, outfitted with special purpose engineer equipment and a respectable armament belonging to the most modern designs of this kind.