Completed tests BMP-3 "Dragoon"
The concern “Tractor Plants” told the newspaper that the BMP-3 “Dragoon” with the engine UTD-32T was ready for production, but refused to comment further.
According to Sergey Suvorov, a military expert in the field of armored weapons, the Ministry of Defense is discussing several concepts for the development of infantry combat vehicles and the installation of various weapon systems on them.
He noted that "until recently, infantry fighting vehicles of the BMP-3 family were equipped with UTD-29 and UTD-32 engines with power from 500 to 660 hp." These are atmospheric engines with no turbines in their design. It was with such engines that the vehicles of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation were purchased, exported to Greece. The engine UTD-32T has a gas turbine supercharging, because of which the power is increased by 200 hp. This allows the Dragoon to reach speeds on the highway in 70, and on the water 10 km / h.
Three types of combat modules can be installed on the machine: standard for BMP-3 with 100-mm 2А70 gun and 30-mm automatic 2А72 cannon and 7,62-mm PKTM machine gun or 57-mm uninhabited AU-XNX unit gun, which is uninhabited by the AU-XNX unit gun unit, which is uninhabited by the PKTM machine gun or 220-mm uninhabited AU-XNX unit gun, which is uninhabited by the AU-XNX unit gun unit, the unguided AU-XNX unit gun unit, the XNX machine gun, or the 125-mm machine gun, or the XNUMX-mm machine gun, or the XNUMX-mm or gun XNUMX-mm.
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