Kelpie IFV

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Kelpie Type 2034 FTA
Fhainnin Kelpie FTA-2034.
TypeFTA/IFV Infantry Fighting Vehicle
Place of originFaneria
Production history
Designed2025-present
Specifications
Crew3 (Commander, gunner, driver) plus 7 dismounts

Armor
  • 360-degree hard-kill APS block (uses turret mount)
  • 2x soft-kill APS munitions jamming blocks (optional)
Main
armament
CU(M)-2013 1.5" Autocannon
Secondary
armament
  • 2x GU-2012 .4" Machine Gun (Pintle Mount/remote turret and coaxial)
  • Turret mount (UAV or ATGM launcher)
  • 20x smoke cannisters

The Kelpie IFV, formally the Type 2034 FTA, is a Fhainnin-built Infantry Fighting Vehicle planned for serial production in the 2030s. Designated a Feithicil Troda Armúrtha (Armored Fighting Vehicle; a term covering both IFV and APC platforms) under its National Army designation, the Kelpie is the result of a mixed private and state defense industrial design with Fhainnin, Yonderrine, Eldmoran, and Kiravian defense contractors. The Kelpie is intended to be a future-proofed IFV and is the flagship land vehicle of current defense production planning in Faneria, and is intended for sale or production license to Eldmora-Regulus, Yonderre, Kiravia, the Cape, Burgundie, and Ashkenang among other countries. It is unusual among Fhainnin defense contracts in that its official designation, the FTA-2034, is the planned initial active deployment year and not the year in which development will complete. The Kelpie is designed around the reduced three crew plus seven infantry carried in the post-2014 variants of the Dragoon IFV, one of its main ancestors along with the Eldmoran Eldmetall IKaF Lynx.

Prototype Kelpie, displayed 2028.