Volga shipbuilders began to test the tugboat for engineering troops
Experts of the Volzhsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Plant began testing the Bobers' tugboat (BMK), designed according to the parameters declared by the Institute of Engineering Troops of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Archival photo, summer 2016
"We are at the stage of preliminary tests, the results are positive so far," FlotProm quotes Pavel Glukhov, deputy director of the Vega group, which includes the Volga plant.
He explained that BMK’s tasks include “guidance of pontoon crossings, towing vessels with a displacement of up to 2 tons, cargo movement, as well as emergency and rescue operations, including in areas of hard-to-reach and non-navigable water bodies”. The boat can be moved by trucks, railway transport, airplanes and transport helicopters aviation.
“Much depends on how many pontoon-bridge parks will be ordered. Now in the newly created engineering divisions there is one semi-set of pontoon-bridge park, on average, there are 6 boats per half-set, - Viktor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of Arsenal of Fatherland magazine, estimated the army’s need for a BMK. - The order for the industry will be several dozen units, at least for new pontoon-bridge parks. In the case of the modernization of existing parks of Soviet construction several dozens more units can be ordered. ”
Resource Help: “The tugboat“ Bober ”was created on the basis of a trimaran hull. Its length is 9,2 meters, width - 3,2 meters. The power plant power reaches 550 hp, the maximum speed of the BMC is 23 km / h, and the autonomy is 12 days. The motor crew and the sailor are in the crew of the boat, also the 5 people in the wheelhouse and the 10 people on the deck can be on the BMK ”.
"We are at the stage of preliminary tests, the results are positive so far," FlotProm quotes Pavel Glukhov, deputy director of the Vega group, which includes the Volga plant.
He explained that BMK’s tasks include “guidance of pontoon crossings, towing vessels with a displacement of up to 2 tons, cargo movement, as well as emergency and rescue operations, including in areas of hard-to-reach and non-navigable water bodies”. The boat can be moved by trucks, railway transport, airplanes and transport helicopters aviation.
“Much depends on how many pontoon-bridge parks will be ordered. Now in the newly created engineering divisions there is one semi-set of pontoon-bridge park, on average, there are 6 boats per half-set, - Viktor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of Arsenal of Fatherland magazine, estimated the army’s need for a BMK. - The order for the industry will be several dozen units, at least for new pontoon-bridge parks. In the case of the modernization of existing parks of Soviet construction several dozens more units can be ordered. ”
Resource Help: “The tugboat“ Bober ”was created on the basis of a trimaran hull. Its length is 9,2 meters, width - 3,2 meters. The power plant power reaches 550 hp, the maximum speed of the BMC is 23 km / h, and the autonomy is 12 days. The motor crew and the sailor are in the crew of the boat, also the 5 people in the wheelhouse and the 10 people on the deck can be on the BMK ”.
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