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On the goDeputy Managing Director of the Tula KBP them. Academician A.G. Nikolay Khokhlov told Nikolay POROSKOV about the creation of the Bakhcha and Berehok combat modules, as well as about the development prospects and the latest developments of the well-known defense enterprise. Shipunova in the direction of armored vehicles, anti-tank missile systems and artillery equipment.

RULE "LONG HAND"



- Nikolai Ivanovich, how did the idea of ​​creating “Bakhchi” come about? Was it dictated by the presence of such samples from a probable (potential) enemy, or did you need the development of your own products of the previous generation?

- The topic of the BMP armament complex appeared at the end of the 80s of the last century. It was the intention to create an infantry fighting vehicle (BMP) of the new generation. As our leader, Arkady Georgievich Shipunov, said, the positive thing in the project was that they divided, smashed the development, on the one hand, of armament and, on the other, of the machine itself, that is, the chassis. The result was the BMP-3 armament complex developed by the Tula KBP, under the leadership of Shipunov, Gryazev and Berezin. This machine in terms of firepower has not been surpassed to date.

We saw the flaws of the BMP-3, and when the paratroopers needed the next generation of equipment, it was decided to make a completely new car, the Bakhcha. It contained many elements of unification with the BMP-3. We needed a car landed from the plane. It was necessary to increase the combat power of the airborne units. Using the already achieved technical solutions, taking into account the shortcomings revealed during the operation, we created a completely new combat department "Bakhcha", much more efficient than what was on the BMP-3.

The fighting compartment was immediately decided to make it unified, that is, suitable for placement on any carriers. And therefore “Bakhcha” in the coming years 15 – 20 will not be repeated. This is a completely new unique combat unit, which combines the power of artillery and automatic weapons and allows you to solve almost all the tasks on the battlefield. This was particularly relevant at the beginning of the 1990s, when, under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (Paris Agreement 1990 of the Year), we cleaned all heavy artillery outside the Urals. Today, thank God, we came out of this agreement. But Bakhcha-U remains the most powerful fighting unit in the world. And no one is close.

- What caused the appearance of "Berezhka"?

- We are constantly conducting an analysis of various military conflicts, trying to obtain information about what is happening in our field abroad. Yet over the years of operation of the BMP-2, new, well-protected targets on the battlefield have appeared, new challenges have appeared. Having such a massive car as the BMP-2, it's a sin not to give it a new quality. As a result, carried out the modernization, although in fact turned out the car a new generation. She retained all the advantages and advantages of a full-time BMP-2, but also received new fighting qualities. This is firing day and night, from the spot and on the move with guided weapons (missiles), the ability to combat tank-dangerous manpower. The universal combat compartment solves the same tasks, only by a slightly different outfit of forces and means. The new machine has aroused great interest among foreign customers, but now we are preparing it for the Russian army.

- Critics claim that, due to the large volume of transportable equipment, the landing force has been reduced to five people, and because of the increased mass, the opportunity to swim has been lost. In fact, the car turned into a non-floating combat reconnaissance vehicle (BRM). Is it so?

- In Berezhka, the landing didn’t reduce at all, and the ergonomics of the BMP-2 are also kept there. In Bakhche, the landing also was not reduced, it is not about us. Yes, the number of paratroopers in the BMD-4 is less than in an infantry vehicle, but this is due to the weight limit for the possibility of landing. The machine still weighs 13 tons. I note: all our cars are floating.

- The developers claim: “Bakhcha-U” can be placed on different chassis - BMP-2, BMP-3, BMD-3, BTR “Rostok”, BMD-4М and other Russian and foreign carriers with similar loading capacity, as well as on boats, ships and stationary objects. What, on all this technology "Bakhcha" installed?

- Yes, it was tested and installed. The only exception is the "Sprout", it is decommissioned. "Bakhchu" really can be placed on ships, boats, and used as a stationary firing point. That is, the combat compartment is self-sufficient, you only need to supply DC power, and it will solve all the problems.

- Experts say: at the time of its creation, Bahcea overtook to some extent Tanks - they had neither a panoramic sight of the commander, nor a target tracking machine. What did this championship give?

- For the paratroopers it was a powerful leap forward - the BMD-4 could fight on equal terms with the most modern tank. Americans today only approach this. They were very proud that from a tank on an 2,5 kilometer they hit the target with a probability of 0,5, that is, two shells are spent on one target. And “Bakhcha” can shoot at this tank with guided and unguided projectiles from 5,5 kilometers. That is, the tank needs another kilometer 3 to go under fire to make the first shot. This is the concept, or the rule of "long arm": being outside the fire zone of the enemy, defeat.

IN A COMPANY WITH “ARMATO” AND “KURGANZ”

- According to the experts, the BMD-4 "Bakhcha-U" has no foreign analogues, and compared with the BMD-3, the new combat compartment is not less than 2,5 times, and according to some estimates it is an order of magnitude higher in firepower units to solve problems without the support of tanks and artillery - both in the offensive and in defense. Due to what such a growth of firepower?

- First, due to the new combat kit. I am referring to the new shells with OFS (34 units) and ATGM (4 units) with increased firing range and improved armor-proof. Secondly, the commander’s panoramic sight is two pairs of eyes. The detection capabilities have increased, the sights are installed modern, with integrated range finders. The commander can work in any mode: take control of the machine, give target designation.

- The Boomerang-BM unmanned combat module, in which the crew is housed inside the combat vehicle's hull, as in “Armaty”, is a continuation of a family of similar Tula development systems?

- No, not a continuation, this is another topic. The line of the state defense order is developing an unmanned combat module for promising tracked and wheeled light and heavy platforms. He was already shown at the parade next to "Armata" and "Kurgan". This information is still limited.

- Creates a robotic complex "Strike" on the basis of the infantry fighting vehicle BMP-3. This is the development of the Kovrov All-Russian Scientific Research Institute "Signal", which is also part of the High-Precision Complexes holding. Does KBP have anything to do with this project?

- “Strike” does not resonate with our products, we do not work on this subject. Simply, the “Signal” asks us for weapons, borrows combat modules or combat compartments. They make a filling that allows the machine to move without human intervention.

- More about one project. On the basis of the BTR-MDM "Shell" and BMD-4М "Gardener" for the Russian Airborne Forces will create a medical machine - an experimental design work "Injury", as well as the machine control complex with an automatic system "Andromeda." On this chassis, your Kornet anti-tank complex with extended-range missiles will be mounted, and the tracked BMD-4М “Gardener” will again be equipped with your Bakhcha-U combat module. Can you comment?

- We have no relation to this project. The products you listed are manufactured by the concern “Tractor Plants”. We make our own Commander’s automated control complexes for conducting network-centric warfare and Malachite for controlling artillery fire.

- The defense enterprises listed above - in cooperation with you or competitors?

-BMP-3 we started in cooperation with Kurganmashzavod: they developed the machine and the actual fighting compartment, we are a weapon system. Then, for a number of reasons, our roads diverged, they continue to mass-produce the BMP-3, now they are making the BMD-4М, modernizing the old BMP-3. The "Gardener" is an example of an infantry fighting vehicle, but with our combat compartment. That is, it is a factory for the production of light armored vehicles. To some extent we are competitors, to some extent we are in cooperation. More all the same in cooperation.

"BRADLEY" AND "PUMA" RELAX

- According to the developers, the BMP-2М Berehok acquired firepower comparable to that of three or four former BMP-2. Reducing the loss rate by more than two times, ammunition consumption was almost halved. Due to what?

- At the expense of the modern fire control system: both the commander and the gunner can take control of themselves. Four missiles are constantly ready for battle, and the missile does not require any alteration. We are the only ones in the world who, with a guided infantry rocket, fire day and night “on the go”: you drive and the target moves. The rocket in the Berezhok project acquired new qualities: it can be fired from a ground combat installation and from a vehicle. An automatic grenade launcher of high power allows you to hit hidden targets, manpower behind the folds of the terrain at a distance of two kilometers. Thanks to the target tracking machine, defeat it becomes a technical characteristic: the gunner’s qualifications or his physical condition significantly less affect the result of the defeat.

The decrease in the loss coefficient is due to the fact that it is possible to shoot from a long distance. The number of ammunition halved, since the sighting complex is new, more accurate.

- Critics say: if you install an uninhabited module, jobs must be transferred, in fact, you have to "throw out" two soldiers from the landing force. And with the installation of the necessary components and assemblies, there is a need to eliminate another place.

- I don’t know what units and aggregates we are talking about ... The place that occupied the ammunition unit is now occupied by the commander and the gunner, they just sit downstairs, inside the case, and the ammunition unit is at the top.

- I counted a lot of foreign upgrades for BMP-2: Polish (Grupa Bumar), Czech BVP-2, Indian Sarath, special modification for Finland BMP-2, RAFAEL (Israel) offered the Samson Mk II combat department for modernization, there is an offer of Ukrainian SpetstechExport. That is, they all take work from the Russian defense industry? Doesn't that worry you?

- Czechoslovakia in Soviet times produced the BMP-2 under license, and manufacturers modify the product by virtue of their understanding. Israel proposes to upgrade and many other equipment captured in the fighting. This is a market, tough competition. We can not prohibit upgrading BMP-2. Another thing is that everyone turns out differently. In addition, there are still only proposals for modernization, which you have listed, but there is no business.

- The “Berezhok” complex by the criterion of “cost - efficiency” has no analogues in the world, which determines its great export success. What makes our product cheaper?

- We take the existing combat compartment and put it on the chassis or refining, installing additional weapons. Alteration is minimal. Naturally, the cost in this case is less.

- With the installation "Berezhka" with minimal reworking, the BMP-2 does not lose its excellent ride quality and ability to swim, but receives a control system weapons (FCS), weapons and communications and navigation systems at the level of modern infantry combat vehicles of the BMD-4, М2А3 type “Bradley”, “Puma” and even better. How do you manage to keep driving performance?

- We try to minimize the extra weight. In "Berezhka" is 500 kilogram. Combat and tactical and technical characteristics remained unchanged.

- When carrying out modernization, do you take into account responses from the troops, from the main "users"?

- We are in constant contact with the users, especially since the new machine is under warranty. Our experts go to the troops, helping the military in the development and maintenance of new equipment. We train the navigators, operators in our training center - this is provided by the Okayer program. Therefore, we know well the weak points of our technology, we take it into account in further development, during modernization.

If we talk about the specific recommendations of the troops, then this is the deployment of a range finder, ammunition on the “Bakhche” compared to the BMP-3. In the first Chechen campaign, it became clear to us how to improve it, develop it. We took into account the experience of using BMP-2 abroad. For example, a machine stopped to launch a guided missile becomes a target. Need to shoot in motion.

WILL HAVE TO DO FLEXIBLE TANKS

- What foreign assessments of products of Tula KBP are known to you?

- The requirement to remove the BMP-3 for the Urals is already an estimate. A potential adversary is trying to remove the weapon he fears, away from sin. We didn’t have meetings with local designers, so it’s not possible to get their opinion, and it’s completely impossible with the current sanctions regime. Although, of course, at international arms exhibitions we approach the stands of other countries. In such cases, knowing who we are, it is often generally forbidden to shoot. A European tank OBT-2000 was displayed at an exhibition in India, so there were padlocks for all hatches.

- The struggle of the creators of percussion weapons and weapons of protection is eternal. Some say that their weapons will break through any defense, others claim that their defense will repel any blow. Where is the truth when it comes to your particular weapon?

- It is impossible to say unequivocally that some are right and others are wrong. Newton also discovered: action equals opposition. New elements of protection appear, but over time there are means of destruction that overcome this protection. When our "Cornet" began a confident march around the world, one English officer told academician Shipunov: "Probably, we now have to make solid-cast tanks!" That is, he meant that by inventing protection, you can reach the point of absurdity.

Of course, we profess an ideology: do everything to protect our country. But it makes no sense to carry excessively heavy defense - it is better to get ahead of the enemy and hit him at a distance from which he can not effectively respond. This is the concept of "long arm", which professed Shipunov.

- Weapon developers are simply forced to look into tomorrow. What new adversary means do you expect, knowing them, to improve your own weapons and military equipment?

- We knew for a long time and today we know what is developing, for example, unmanned aviation - as a means of reconnaissance and means of destruction. Therefore, in the design of our combat vehicles, we are laying the possibility of firing not even obstructive fire, but namely aimed fire to engage low flying air targets. I mean, in particular, the complex "Shell".

The Kornet anti-tank missile system on the Bakhcha and Berezhok combat vehicles also has this capability. The presence of automatic target tracking allows an automatic gun or any weapon with a sufficient range of reach to conduct aimed shooting at low-flying targets. The decision is made by the crew commander or gunner operator.

There are new means of destruction, such as cruise missiles with a small reflective surface. And we are working to improve the accuracy of detection, the tracking of such targets and their defeat, we are working on how to improve combat performance. In the combat machine we are working on and which we will soon show at the exhibition, one person in an automated mode works on two goals simultaneously: on the air and on the ground. KBP is a diversified firm, and we follow the development of armaments in various areas.

- How do you take into account in modern developments the nature of future wars - contactless, hybrid, network-centric, with the use of weapons on new physical principles?

- We can not stay, as they used to say, in the era of the Napoleonic wars. But, as shows story and the practice of our enterprise, the concept of network-centricism created by the American military, is nothing more than an advertising move to once again draw us into an arms race. They themselves do not fight with this concept anywhere, they only impose their own vision of the modern battlefield on the world, where everything is supposedly automated, where there is a connection from a single soldier to a brigade commander ...

- The same snag, as with the star wars?

- And with star wars, and with "smart" ammunition. In fact, the organization of the interaction of branches of the armed forces, types of armed forces is the primary task of any commander of any country. Only with effective interaction can you achieve success. Why did the Germans go through the whole of Europe in the course of the Second World War? Thanks to the implementation of the theory of blitzkrieg: artillery preparation, air strike, and then armored wedges come into play, which sew defense and go to the operating room. According to the theory of network-centrism, it turns out that a fighter hung with electronics, before firing at the enemy, must report to the commander: to hit or not? As long as he gets an answer, he himself is slapped. That is, we observe elements of absurdity in network centrism.

- Do you carry out comparative tests of your weapons and those of competitors, as, for example, the aircraft makers do?

- If this is possible, then of course we do. In particular, the foreign customer. At one time, an Israeli firm exhibited its products against Berezhka. We won, proved our advantage by the results of hitting targets, but taking into account local specifics, the release of results has not yet occurred.

SHOT - DON'T FORGET

- Which of your foreign counterparts of your weapon cause you respect or even fear?

- It is difficult to say this is a philosophical topic. Of course, now the American and German guns, mounted on light-armored vehicles, pierce armor that is thicker than ours. They have a larger liner volume, greater initial velocity of the projectile, better quality materials and gunpowder. But we do not chase them blindly. Our 30 mm cartridge is universal, cross-species. With these cartridges, we can shoot at sea, in the air and on land. They also have a tough specialization in the types of troops. And then, we solve the problem in another way. And they, and we have both advantages and disadvantages.

Yes, the Jewelin’s anti-tank rocket, which supposedly finds the target itself, works on the principle of “fired and forgotten”, commands respect. But how can a man leading a battle forget his goal? He needs to make sure he hit her.

We put an automatic target tracking machine in our car, that is, we had “brains” in the car all the time. Their “brains” fly away with each rocket. Their rockets are three or four, and some are ten times more expensive than our analogs, which solve the same problems. The homing head on their rockets does not exclude the so-called friendly fire. Having suffered losses from it, foreign developers introduce a correction mode.

- Do your weapons in the world copy? What are you doing to preserve intellectual property?

- Copy, of course. I think that the preservation of intellectual property, its protection should be monitored by the state, the designated authorities and services. Now this has been given more attention. Previously, they simply gave documents to socialist countries, the same Kalashnikov assault rifles.

About three years ago there was a message that our “Cornet” was launched in Iran - under a different name. But even the technological color there is fully consistent with ours: the warhead is yellow, the rocket is gray, the controls are black. One to one. Although we did not have contracts or supplies with the Iranians.

- I heard this judgment of our defense industry: the party that copied the Russian weapons, can refer to the secrecy of their own product and not open the documentation to the court.

- There are precedents for the opposite. Israel copied or upgraded our tank T-55 completely, as they say, without bothering. And they explained numerous coincidences as a result of long-term studies. When they began to understand, reached the starting heater used in low temperature conditions. But why a heater in Israel, where the average annual temperature + 30 degrees? So they proved that the Israelis are our copy.

- As far as your company touched sanctions? Is something being done for import substitution?

- The sanctions were a novelty for the first time, and in the sixth, as now our company, they gave up on them: they are there, they are not there, what's the difference? We leave on replacement and on insurance stocks, in parallel we carry out our own developments. Here the sanctions applied to Russia as a state, of course, inhibit, since we have many subcontractors and co-contractors.

- How are the names of weapons and military equipment, sometimes quite bizarre?

- As there is a theory of random numbers, that there is a set of random words. They called some product an exotic term or a word from a completely different area, and then we get used to it and it seems that there is complete compliance. Why did one jet infantry flamethrower be called "Bumblebee" and the other - "Prize"? "Bumblebee" does not buzz, and bangs so that the ears pinch. Anti-tank missiles "Fagot", "Competition" (they say, argued with colleagues, competed, which is better), "Metis" ... The latter after 10 years found an excuse: cheap, like a grenade launcher, and at the same time ATGM! And the "Cornet"? What does the hussar rank? In a word, the name is a matter of chance. The main thing is that the name does not affect the combat characteristics.
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  1. +6
    20 November 2016 17: 39
    Of course, I don’t want to criticize strongly the modules with the 30mm gun, but the 57mm is much universal, and if you install ATGM on it (57mm module) there will be no price at all. Upgrading old BMPs only at the expense of the combat module is only half the battle; she needs a short-circuit, otherwise all available grenade launchers penetrate it, even during the Second World War. In the Bahcha module U shells stand vertically, this reduces the survivability of the machine when breaking armor. The whole system is very complex, you need to make it easier for the automation to take into account which projectile is loaded, its ballistics, corrections, etc., on a melon all this is done by a person.
    It needs to be done easier.
    1. +4
      20 November 2016 18: 34
      RASKAT

      The article also talks about the "long arm" concept. This concept helps avoid additional layers of protection. It allows you to make a choice that makes poorly protected vehicles protected not by armor, but by the ability to hit the enemy first.

      Read the article carefully.
      1. +2
        20 November 2016 19: 15
        [quoteThis concept helps to avoid additional levels of protection] [/ quote]
        Then why the 30mm and 7.72 machine gun in it, and the landing party still sits on the armor. The author of the article apparently confused something. It’s the same on the self-propelled guns, and not a tank, although such capabilities are available, but BMPs, its primary tasks, on the contrary, are action almost in enemy orders, on the very front line!
        1. +2
          20 November 2016 20: 56
          RASKAT

          The actions of infantry fighting vehicles in enemy orders, after the suppression of these orders by heavy equipment, artillery training and attack tanks.

          Well, weapons, according to the tasks. Carriage under armor and support by motorized infantry fire.

          Why 30 mm and not 57? So this is not considered in the article. To do this, write a separate article with your own arguments.

          And in this case, we have a modernization of well-recommended technology for the requirements of the present.
        2. +1
          21 November 2016 00: 52
          Quote: RASKAT
          The author of the article apparently confused something. It’s the same on the self-propelled guns, and not a tank, although such capabilities are available, but BMPs, its primary tasks, on the contrary, are action almost in enemy orders, on the very front line!

          I recommend that before criticizing the author, read at least in open sources what BMP is.
          Infantry fighting vehicle, BMP - a wide class of armored fighting vehicles, the main purpose of which is to transport personnel to the place of the mission, to increase its mobility, armament and security on the battlefield in the context of the use of nuclear weapons and joint operations with tanks in battle.
          https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B5%
          D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%
          D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B
          For those who do not understand. 1. The personnel in the battle (when performing the task) OUT of the machine. The machine helps personnel complete the task. An infantry fighting vehicle is an infantry weapon like an assault rifle, an RPG or an RPK. Presented at the branch level.
          2. Actions in conjunction with tanks. And not with tanks in one line. Those. the tank performs its task, its bmp in the framework of a common goal.
          3. The landing party sits under the armor while moving from one place to complete a task to another. (there were problems with this).
    2. +1
      20 November 2016 18: 37
      I agree. One person is unable to control two guns at once, a machine gun, a rocket, a radio station, a driver, and at the same time listen to the commander, conduct reconnaissance of targets, adjust shooting and still breathe.
    3. +3
      20 November 2016 18: 40
      Quote: RASKAT
      Of course, I don’t want to criticize strongly modules with a 30mm gun, but 57mm is much universal, and if it is (57mm module)

      There is a double-edged sword ... on the one hand, an increase in the power of the main caliber, but on the other, a decrease in BC. Although, despite the fact that they criticize the Baikal module, I consider the installation of such a module justified and quite successful.
      1. +2
        20 November 2016 19: 06
        There is a double-edged sword ... on the one hand, an increase in the power of the main caliber, but on the other, a decrease in BC.

        I want to slightly adjust. this is so much space in the old 3 infantry fighting vehicle

        And this is in a new, with 57mm gun.
        As for me, they overdid it too much, the BK baud is still full of space, you can easily increase it if necessary. So this BMP-3 is low, Kurgan and Boomerangs are much higher. (BMP-3 height 2.3 m, Kurganets 3.3m) One meter higher with the same clearance. As for me, the BC is too small, at least 100 shells, good
        1. +3
          20 November 2016 20: 07
          For Kurgan and Boomerangs, the combat module does not occupy the armor module at all.

          Well, 100 mm and 30 mm are definitely better than 57
    4. +2
      20 November 2016 19: 11
      so right away we are talking about cheap modernization. although about Bahchi it is a little doubtful that 100mm is worse than 57. To this 100 mm gun, they recently developed a new projectile Cherry 2 seems (I can be wrong with the name), which is much more effective than the first model. By the way, the vertical position of the shells is not only on the bach, but also in the 105 mm American wheeled self-propelled guns. it is necessary to cover with armor and spit on buoyancy. it is not always needed, and armor is needed always and everywhere. containers with DZ must be set at least. German Puma by the way does not swim.
      1. 0
        20 November 2016 19: 30
        In any case, I hope the BMP-3 will slowly go down in history, Kurganets
        much better.
        1. 0
          24 November 2016 02: 47
          Yeah, and much more and higher))
      2. 0
        20 November 2016 21: 02
        parkello

        Where is it going? What story?

        After all, the article is written about the fact that this new combat module increases the security of personnel due to the ability to detect and hit the enemy at a greater distance. Thus preventing his defeat.

        Why does this bmp with such a module have extra armor? Yes, and buoyancy is necessary. And for buoyancy and cross-country overweight also suffers.
        1. +1
          20 November 2016 23: 04
          Quote: gladcu2
          Why does this bmp with such a module have extra armor?

          To bring infantry to the line of dismounting. And the module will not really help here.

          Well, the armament ... Both the 30-mm and 57-mm defenses, which are normally equipped in fortifications, are very poorly able to work. There you need dip angles of more than 45 degrees.
          1. 0
            22 November 2016 06: 49
            Lopatov, there in the comments above there is an extract from the charter on the use of infantry fighting vehicles.

            BMP is not intended to suppress defense. She has other goals. And if you break the charter, then the consequences will be in the form of personnel losses.
        2. +3
          21 November 2016 01: 48
          Did I say that someone was leaving somewhere? buoyancy in the same desert or in the mountains why no one needs. but armor protection is never superfluous. the lack of buoyancy is decided by pontoon ferries, and the lack of reservation at the cost of their own lives and lives of those who sit in this car. so that I don’t need to rub here. I’ve been living in this world for several years. in Canada, teach there ... if you find anyone.
          1. 0
            22 November 2016 06: 50
            parkello

            Pontoons are good, but they are not everywhere.
            Need a middle ground.
            1. +1
              22 November 2016 19: 38
              Well, I agree that pontoons are not everywhere, but water barriers are also not at every step you can meet. in any case, the crossing of the water barrier is coordinated with the general staff, I'm not talking about shallow water bodies, and if there is a really wide river, such as we have Evros or the Danube, the Dnieper, etc., and by and large they do not need buoyancy in FIG. There are self-propelled caterpillar pontoons. where you can even load a tank, and they must be present during forcing. and armor must be strengthened in any way. in any case, you can make a raft out of logs and force a river or a lake on it. this is for the infantry, and let the marine corps have their own, floating ... everything is clear with them, there are no questions. but in the infantry you just need well-armored infantry fighting vehicles capable of conducting a database in the same order as tanks. just listen to what I'm saying, I myself served in the motorized infantry in the mountain separate motorized rifle brigade. and us buoyancy there in the mountains and did not flatten in the tail. but weak armor made some sections simply irresistible when 1 machine gun M-2 browning could just turn our BMP into a colander. that BMP-1 that M-113, both in the booking area are outright shit. but the M-113 outperforms the BMP-1 due to the ramp, through which it is more convenient to dismount at times when it is urgent to leave the side. and buoyancy in the mountains .. well, I don’t know what it is like to be a pervert, to come up with something like that.
          2. 0
            24 November 2016 02: 49
            Well, live in your mountains and deserts. Most of the country's population lives quite on the plains, where there are many rivers and reservoirs. And the lack of booking is solved locally by hanging additional reservation if necessary.
        3. +1
          24 November 2016 15: 07
          The article is written about the fact that this new combat module

          Yes, it’s not new, it’s in the troops with 2007, several BMDs with such a module were in the troops.
      3. 0
        24 November 2016 02: 47
        It is you Iraqis about the "buoyancy spit" tell tales. And in Russia there are so many rivers and reservoirs that you get tired of counting.
  2. +3
    20 November 2016 18: 26
    It’s good when people go about their business all their lives. Here, knowledge is standardized and transmitted to new generations, and the correct weapons concept is created on the same system knowledge.

    But this must be thanked by comrade Stalin, for that country which was able to create conditions for its designers when it was not necessary to think about means of survival, since the state took care of this. But one had to follow a sense of duty and duty. At the same time, the work brought pleasure and satisfaction.

    Under the modern economic system, worries about daily bread become so acute that there is not enough time for real productive work. Experienced engineers and workers often at the end of a contract or bankruptcy of an enterprise must be engaged in absolutely non-core business.

    It is hoped that someday the right times will come again.

    Thanks to the author, the article is very interesting. One feels pride in people who are busy with their business, who have retained their enterprises and knowledge.
  3. +3
    20 November 2016 19: 15
    This technique is a dumb cut budget. About 12 years ago, nobody needed her, but now she suddenly needs her. If other countries of the world offer a complete package of modernization, some kind of technology, then this technology has been thoroughly studied and does not carry the necessary degree of threat against a potential enemy. I look at these new modules and am amazed how junk is presented as a breakthrough. In order for this technique to really be able to shoot, it will have to be brought out exactly evenly, for direct fire shots, and for long arm shots, the infantry will have to look for a place in 80% of cases, for the safe shot and the target itself.
    1. +2
      20 November 2016 20: 08
      Something you painfully sophisticated.
    2. 0
      21 November 2016 21: 43
      A set of words.
    3. 0
      11 December 2016 22: 33
      Something bore you ...
  4. +2
    20 November 2016 19: 34
    Crazy needed active protection can be without DZ.
  5. +1
    20 November 2016 20: 08
    Here is an article worthy of attention in VO!
  6. +2
    21 November 2016 12: 48
    I put "+" in the article, but here are some statements that cause slight bewilderment, for example:
    We put a target tracking machine in our car, that is, we have the “brains” all the time in the car. Their brains fly away with every rocket. Their missiles are three to four, and some ten times more expensive than our counterparts, which solve the same problems.

    Actually, the idea is clear, reducing the cost of a shot by transferring the target guidance and tracking function from the seeker to the operator and tracking automation. But it is possible to interfere, blind and even destroy equipment with an operator in a compartment much faster than a projectile fly to the target (electronic warfare, electronic warfare, lasers, etc. microwave ovens). In addition, the fighting is not a duel of BMP vs Tank / infantry / UAV / BMP - it is rather a cooperative work of all the above means. There is simply no time to accompany the target until the eventual destruction. It is possible to shoot shells "shot - forget" at several targets simultaneously without wasting time to confirm the result of the attack. Such confirmation comes from other systems - this is the essence of network-centric warfare, i.e. in the division of functions in the combat network into different systems. In the end, I want to say with all the seditious IMHO: it is better to lose 10 times more expensive shell than an ordinary one, but at the same time save equipment and people.
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    21 November 2016 15: 54
    But it amused- "Israel copied or modernized our T-55 tank completely, as they say, without bothering. And they explained numerous coincidences as the result of long-term research." ... Well, well, the Arabs left them so much good, the point was to bother ...

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