Shot from the "Doublet". Ukroboronprom demonstrated a new combat module
"Ukroboronprom" showed tests of the combat module "Duplet", held at one of the sites of the Zhytomyr region, reports "Warspot" with reference to the press service of the state concern. For the first time, Ukraine demonstrated a full-size mockup of the new Duplet combat module at the 11th international exhibition-conference Special Operations Forces Exhibition and Conference (SOFEX 9) held in Amman’s capital Jordan from 12 to 2016 in May 2016 of the year
Initially, the “Duplet” was developed to modernize the BMP-2, so for testing the module was installed on this machine. In this case, the developers indicate that the "Duplet" can also be installed on Tanks T-64 and other armored vehicles.
The press service of the Zhytomyr armored plant, part of the Ukroboronprom concern, reports that the rate of shooting 30-mm guns can reach over 1000 rounds per minute (16 rounds per second). This allows you to effectively hit the firing points, light armored vehicles and low-flying air targets.
Module "Doublet" is a very original design with separate installation in one uninhabited tower of two stabilized 30-mm automatic guns ZTM2 (Ukrainian copy of the gun 2А42) - each "with its" paired "7,62-mm machine gun KT-7,62 (PCT copy). In addition, an 30-mm automatic anti-personnel grenade launcher KBA-117 (copy AGS-17) and four ATGM P-3 launchers of the Barrier complex are installed on top of the turret. The 24-hour fire control system includes thermal imaging, television and optical channels and la grain range finder.The calculation of the combat module is two people in the turret section.
The decision to install two 30-mm cannons is very strange, writes bmpd blog, and it may make sense either to conduct continuous fire (alternating guns to comply with the temperature regime), or to quickly switch from one type of projectile to another (in the case of loading each of the guns with a separate type of ammunition). However, the increased size, complexity and cost of such an installation hardly pays for these opportunities.
Initially, the “Duplet” was developed to modernize the BMP-2, so for testing the module was installed on this machine. In this case, the developers indicate that the "Duplet" can also be installed on Tanks T-64 and other armored vehicles.
The press service of the Zhytomyr armored plant, part of the Ukroboronprom concern, reports that the rate of shooting 30-mm guns can reach over 1000 rounds per minute (16 rounds per second). This allows you to effectively hit the firing points, light armored vehicles and low-flying air targets.
Module "Doublet" is a very original design with separate installation in one uninhabited tower of two stabilized 30-mm automatic guns ZTM2 (Ukrainian copy of the gun 2А42) - each "with its" paired "7,62-mm machine gun KT-7,62 (PCT copy). In addition, an 30-mm automatic anti-personnel grenade launcher KBA-117 (copy AGS-17) and four ATGM P-3 launchers of the Barrier complex are installed on top of the turret. The 24-hour fire control system includes thermal imaging, television and optical channels and la grain range finder.The calculation of the combat module is two people in the turret section.
The decision to install two 30-mm cannons is very strange, writes bmpd blog, and it may make sense either to conduct continuous fire (alternating guns to comply with the temperature regime), or to quickly switch from one type of projectile to another (in the case of loading each of the guns with a separate type of ammunition). However, the increased size, complexity and cost of such an installation hardly pays for these opportunities.
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