New tracks for Russian tanks and Rays of Pain
The Russian Ministry of Defense approved the draft of a new heavy platform for Armata armored vehicles - a single tracked platform for heavy tanks, Infantry fighting vehicles, barrage vehicles, etc. These platforms will begin to be adopted by individual motorized rifle and tank brigades of the Ground Forces, starting in 2015.Major-General A. Shevchenko, Head of the Main Automobile and Armored Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, when announcing the approval, said: "The project meets all the requirements of the military department at the level of the technical project. This product will be seen in metal in three years," he was quoted as saying. Interfax and ITAR-TASS.
Shevchenko recalled that this project is being successfully implemented by Uralvagonzavod. "The Ministry of Defense is satisfied with the progress of works that are going in full compliance with the schedule," the general said. “It’s a fighting machine, but I’d not call it a tank now,” he concluded.
"At the same time, the Ministry began a large-scale utilization of outdated automobile and armored vehicles, which cannot be modernized," Shevchenko said. According to the general, this primarily affected the T-64, T-62 and T-55 tanks.
In addition, there is a massive transfer of the car park to diesel fuel. ZIL-31 and GAZ-66 cars are being withdrawn from the park. “In the near future, the Ural and KamAZ will become the main park cars,” the general said.
March 22, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, said that in the Russian Federation before the end of the year a program to create a non-lethal weapons - gene, radiation, wave and psychophysical. It should appear after 2020.
Serdyukov said this during a meeting on the implementation of the tasks that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin outlined in program articles. In particular, one of these articles refers to the need to create these types of weapons. The amount of funding for development is not specified.
As reported earlier RIA "News“a device was created by Russian scientists that can instantly disable electronic components of various enemy weapons systems. A device whose size does not exceed the size of a small portfolio can stop a tank at a distance, knock a fighter off course, and undermine a radio-controlled mine. that, in addition to the equipment of the enemy, civilian electronics are also blocked.
Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of National Defense, director of the Center for Analysis of the World Trade in Arms, giving an interview to Kommersant FM, noted that the creation of weapons operating on new physical principles is the right decision, since it is these tools that will be used in future wars.
“If a hundred years ago someone presented the appearance of, for example, nuclear weapons, this would be an absolutely unthinkable thing. Similarly, today we don’t know how fundamental science and technological progress can unwittingly contribute to the creation of unthinkable today and totally destructive weapons ", - he said.
"Of course, the decision to start development in the Russian Federation will largely depend on the pace of similar work in other countries, primarily in the United States and NATO," the expert said.
For example, in the United States develop the so-called "ray of pain" and "telepathic gun." In fact, these developments are quite simple, and the names were invented to be intimidated, notes Ilya Kramnik, a military analyst.
“As far as can be judged, the“ telepathic gun ”will be the emitter of ultrasound, which, as we know, can cause a person to feel a sense of panic, fear. Thus, a non-lethal weapon is obtained,” the expert explains.
“Again, the Rays of Pain are a high-frequency radiator. The same effect can be observed when you are near a working radar, which in itself is dangerous to health and can cause serious injuries,” said the analyst.
Recall also that a list of non-lethal weapons allegedly leaked from the Pentagon hit the Web in January. The list includes sound waves, heat rays and lasers. According to the description, they can be used for a variety of purposes - from the dispersal of demonstrations to the disorientation of enemy equipment and people. Some of them are technologies of the future, previously encountered exclusively in science fiction books.
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