Equipment UVZ for the army of a new generation
One of the largest military-industrial holdings of the world - JSC "Scientific and Production Corporation" Uralvagonzavod "- throughout its stories famous for the highest scientific and technical potential. Innovative development of UVZ in the line of special equipment had an unprecedented influence on the history of Russia and the development of world weapons.
UVZ Corporation currently unites in its structure nearly 30 industrial enterprises, research institutes and design bureaus located in five federal districts of Russia and abroad. The production and creation of military equipment is the leading line of its activity. It is logical that it was the Nizhny Tagil Uralvagonzavod in 2007 that united under its name enterprises that have been working in the field of weapons development for decades, recognized developers and manufacturers of military products. It was on its basis in 1941 that the Ural tank the factory, from the conveyor of which the train of thirty-four left the front line every day - the legendary combat vehicle, which today remains a masterpiece of design thought and a role model for tank builders around the world. Not a single tank factory in the world has achieved such productivity either before or after the war. And in just seven decades of its tank history, the Nizhny Tagil enterprise produced about 100 thousand units of special equipment - and this is an absolute world record!
Characteristic features of UVZ production vehicles have always been high efficiency, reliability and unpretentiousness, low cost and significant modernization potential inherent in them. The world famous tanks T-54, T-72, T-90С and others were and are unique in many ways and widely used in the armies of many states of the world. BREM-1М, BMR-3М, IMR-3М, MTU-72 - engineering machines of the UVZ brand have no less efficiency. A combat vehicle fire support (BMPT) is the latest model of weapons, has a high level of protection, firepower and controllability. For their unique tactical and technical characteristics and firepower, the combat vehicle of fire support was named by the Terminator military specialists.
A special place among the tank products of Uralvagonzavod today is occupied by the upgraded T-90CM. This machine, of course, is the next step in the development of domestic tank building. The modernization touched the whole complex of characteristics of the T-90С tank and allowed to significantly increase its combat and operational qualities. The T-90CM confidently surpasses its predecessors in main indicators of combat effectiveness. These are, first of all, fundamentally increased possibilities of fire destruction, high protection from most anti-tank weapons, a reliable life support system and improved mobility.
All tanks and engineering vehicles produced at Uralvagonzavod were developed in the open joint-stock company Ural Transport Engineering Design Bureau (UKBTM). It is included in the integrated structure of the corporation and possesses highly qualified personnel, a powerful design and production base, as well as advanced technologies in the design of high-tech products.
Currently, UKBTM are developing the latest combat vehicle. Already by 2015 at Uralvagonzavod they plan to change the entire tank model lineup. A universal combat platform will be created on which all types of weapons associated with tracked vehicles will be placed: the main battle tank, armored personnel carrier, infantry fighting vehicles, as well as combat support vehicles.
During the Great Patriotic War, T-34 tanks were manufactured not only in Nizhny Tagil, but also in many other domestic factories. One of the largest manufacturers of “thirty-fours” for the front was the Omsk enterprise, now part of UVZ, the open joint-stock company “Design Bureau of Transport Engineering” (KBTM). Thanks to the experience gained during the war, this enterprise also became one of the country's leading manufacturers of special equipment: the Omsk specialists produced T-80 tank, radiation, chemical, biological protection machines and other equipment for the Ministry of Defense’s orders. The priority of development of Omsk designers is protected by more than 400 patents for industrial property objects and 1200 copyright certificates for inventions. One of the most promising products of KBTM is the heavy flamethrower system TOC-1, which hits targets at a distance of 6 km and is intended to destroy the enemy by the effect of pressure drops.
Currently, in its activities to create a scientific and technical reserve for the development of promising samples of armored vehicles, KBTM pursues a technical policy of gradually improving the components of military tracked vehicles and the continuity of existing progressive design solutions. The company's specialists form the scientific and technical cooperation of developers and manufacturers for new types of weapons, protection and mobility complexes for the combat vehicles of the future.
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UVZ is not only famous for tanks today. The corporation offers the army a wide range of modern military products. Artillery armament production in the special equipment division is represented by two Ekaterinburg enterprises - OJSC Uraltransmash and OJSC Plant No. XXUMX, as well as the Central Scientific Research Institute Burevestnik in Nizhny Novgorod.
X-NUMX-mm D-122 howitzer with circular shelling
Uraltransmash is one of the oldest domestic enterprises. It traces its history to 1817, but the production of military vehicles at the factory began in the war years. For more than 60 years, the company has developed or upgraded about 40 samples of military equipment. More than 20 combat artillery and engineering products adopted by the Soviet and Russian armies and mass-produced or manufactured in his shops. Now Uraltransmash is the only Russian factory where self-propelled artillery mounts are produced, widely known both in Russia and in other countries. A significant step in the development of self-propelled domestic artillery was the creation in 1989 of the self-propelled howitzer 2C19 "Msta-S", which surpassed many foreign analogues in its tactical and technical characteristics.
One of the leading enterprises of the military-industrial complex of the country since World War II is Plant No.9. On it were established 122-mm howitzer 2A31 and 152-mm howitzer 2A33 for the first domestic self-propelled howitzer 2S1 "Carnation" and 2S3 "Acacia", and is a well-known gun as 122-mm howitzer D-30 with a circular firing. Its modification, the X-NUMX-mm howitzer D-122, is one of the most common in the world: around 30, its units are located in 3600 foreign countries, not counting the CIS countries. One of the newest products of the Ekaterinburg enterprise is the 35А2 howitzer, which is classified as a regimental and developed on a modified three-piece carriage 61-mm howitzer D-122.
And, of course, Plant No. XXUMX is one of the domestic leaders in the creation and production of barreled artillery for all tanks, which form the basis of the modern Russian Armed Forces. The T-9C tank is armed with X-NUMX-mm guns of the D-90 family of development “nine”.
The team of the Nizhny Novgorod research institute "Petrel", created in the 70s of the last century as the parent enterprise for the barrel artillery armament of the Ground Forces and the Naval fleet, during his glorious activities he performed more than 400 R&D and presented a number of samples of naval, field artillery, mortars, technical maintenance and artillery weapons. Currently, the Central Research Institute is working on a promising interspecific 152-mm artillery complex, which will become the basis of the artillery weapons system of the Russian army in the coming decade.
OJSC "Rubtsovsk Machine-Building Plant" is engaged in the development and production of special machines. For half a century of history, more than 70 types of various machines and products have been designed and mastered. Today, more than 15 samples of military products are manufactured at the RMZ. The most famous are: the commander combat reconnaissance vehicle BRM-ZK "Lynx" based on the BMP-3, for the creation of which the team of the Rubtsovsk specialists was awarded the prize of the government of the Russian Federation, and the mobile reconnaissance point PRP-4М. It is based on the BMP-1 and is designed for reconnaissance of fixed and moving ground targets day and night, in any meteorological conditions and in a wide range of temperatures at altitudes up to 3000 m above sea level. The new generation mobile intelligence vehicle is the PDP-4A mobile intelligence unit.
In addition, today, the UVZ corporation includes one of the largest developers and manufacturers of electrical equipment and automated control systems for special and general industrial use in Russia - the Electromashina Scientific and Production Association OJSC. Chelyabinsk enterprise developments are installed on such well-known machines as T-55, BMP-1, BMP-2, T-72, T-80, BMP-3, T-90С. In total there are over 300 products that have been successfully applied to armored vehicles that are in operation in more than 50 countries around the world. These are fire control systems and their elements, opto-electronic suppression and air curtain systems, fire-fighting equipment, as well as air-conditioning and autonomous energy-saving systems, electric drives, electric motors, starters, and much more.
Scientific and Production Corporation "UVZ" includes the most famous developers and manufacturers of military products. This technique, which has repeatedly glorified Russian industry and the country, has repeatedly proved its power, reliability and quality of products. Taking into account the modern composition of the UVZ special equipment division, the scientific and technical potential of its participants, it becomes clear that the corporation will become one of the main executors of the government's task to re-equip the Russian army in the framework of the Federal Target Program “Development of the Defense-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation for the Period to 2020 of the Year” successfully implements it and justifies the trust of the state.
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