Ukraine tried to create its own "Terminator"
The combat module resembles the Russian one, but only outwardly - “in fact, it is only a miserable parody, since in all respects the characteristic is significantly inferior to the Russian development,” writes the author of the material Dmitry Lemeshko.
“It is equipped with two 30mm cannons, which are pirated from 2A42 cannons. There is also a 7,62 mm machine gun and a 30 mm automatic grenade launcher. They were also roughly torn from Russian products. The use of obsolete Konkurs ATGMs, which are not produced by Ukraine at all, is very surprising. Containers with missiles are not protected by anything,” the article says.
According to military experts, the protection of this module is practically "no". “To understand this, you just need to see the crew hatches in the roof of the module. Their location seems to invite the enemy to focus fire on them,” the author writes.
Sights also have very poor protection.
If Russian BMPTs have hull protection that even surpasses that available on the T-90A tank, then the decisions of the mid-80s were applied on the Ukrainian product: the Soviet Kontakt-1 dynamic protection is not capable of withstanding modern weapons.
“This false “Terminator” in its absurdity can only compete with another fake - “Azovets”, about which they talked so much, but now they are ashamed to remember,” the author concludes.
- lostarmour.info
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