Fifth-generation floating medium conveyor PTS-4
The fifth-generation floating medium conveyor is designed to move personnel of military units, armored vehicles and bulky goods through water barriers. The latest representative of special equipment, created in the design bureau of the Omsk plant of transport engineering, for his relatively short existence, managed to surprise many with its capabilities and characteristics. However, at shows and exhibitions of military equipment, it became inconspicuous against the background of domestic modern tanks and armored personnel carriers.
PTS-4
If you look at the succession, the Omsk floating tracked carrier is not the successor of the series of PTS-1 / 2 / 3 transporters, which were created at the Luganskteplovoz plant. Now this “foreign” plant and equipment is also foreign. The ancestor of the Omsk novelty can be considered a tracked transporter, created at the Izhevsk plant in the 50s of the last century, called K-61. By the way, at the next exhibition, Omsk representatives put one of K-4 near PTS-61, so to speak, for a better idea of what the Russian industry has achieved over the years. It will be unfair to compare these decisions of the Soviet and Russian thought, since it is clear that the new representative of tracked floating vehicles is ahead of his great-grandfather in all characteristics.
If we compare it with PTS-3, then PTS-4 weighs more by 8 tons, can take payload more by two tons, and received a modern booking. The conveyor has received 840-ka strong engine of multi-fuel type, which allowed to achieve good speed characteristics when driving on water and land. Installed fuel tanks allow it to move through the water for 10.5 hours or to cross 600 kilometers on the ground. The PTS-3 is developed by the undercarriage elements from the T-64 tank (still a Ukrainian design), while the PTS-4 is built on the elements of the undercarriage of the Russian T-80 tank.
From the applied modern technologies, we would like to note the presence of a machine gun at the PTS-4, provided with a remote control with a portable 400 combat reserve of shots, a booking of a command compartment and a mounted undercarriage chassis.
PTS-4 was created as a hot replacement for the obsolete "PTS-1 / 2", used so far in the Russian Army. The same PTS-3 has become an overseas vehicle, so the Omsk Transport Engineering Plant, which, by the way, is also engaged in the modernization of the T-80 tank (T-80U and T-80UK), has developed the new caterpillar floating means for moving people, equipment and cargo. ) and equipment for the crossing of water barriers. Therefore, I would very much like the Russian military department to become the first customer, and not interested foreign customers.
The main characteristics of the PTS-4:
- full weight - 33.1 tons;
- Department of management (cabin) double performance;
- land / water payload up to 12 / 18 tons;
- the speed of movement of land / water to 60 / 15 km / h;
- length - 8.3 meter;
- width -3.3 meter;
- engine power - HP 840;
- range on the ground to 600 kilometers;
- range of travel on water to 10.5 hours;
[/ b] Armament: [/ b]
- closed-type anti-aircraft gun - 12.7 mm machine gun on a remote control with a portable stock of 400 rounds of ammunition.
Information sources:
http://kbtm-omsk.ru/node/241
http://www.vestnik-rm.ru/news-4-2028.htm
PTS-4
If you look at the succession, the Omsk floating tracked carrier is not the successor of the series of PTS-1 / 2 / 3 transporters, which were created at the Luganskteplovoz plant. Now this “foreign” plant and equipment is also foreign. The ancestor of the Omsk novelty can be considered a tracked transporter, created at the Izhevsk plant in the 50s of the last century, called K-61. By the way, at the next exhibition, Omsk representatives put one of K-4 near PTS-61, so to speak, for a better idea of what the Russian industry has achieved over the years. It will be unfair to compare these decisions of the Soviet and Russian thought, since it is clear that the new representative of tracked floating vehicles is ahead of his great-grandfather in all characteristics.
If we compare it with PTS-3, then PTS-4 weighs more by 8 tons, can take payload more by two tons, and received a modern booking. The conveyor has received 840-ka strong engine of multi-fuel type, which allowed to achieve good speed characteristics when driving on water and land. Installed fuel tanks allow it to move through the water for 10.5 hours or to cross 600 kilometers on the ground. The PTS-3 is developed by the undercarriage elements from the T-64 tank (still a Ukrainian design), while the PTS-4 is built on the elements of the undercarriage of the Russian T-80 tank.
From the applied modern technologies, we would like to note the presence of a machine gun at the PTS-4, provided with a remote control with a portable 400 combat reserve of shots, a booking of a command compartment and a mounted undercarriage chassis.
PTS-4 was created as a hot replacement for the obsolete "PTS-1 / 2", used so far in the Russian Army. The same PTS-3 has become an overseas vehicle, so the Omsk Transport Engineering Plant, which, by the way, is also engaged in the modernization of the T-80 tank (T-80U and T-80UK), has developed the new caterpillar floating means for moving people, equipment and cargo. ) and equipment for the crossing of water barriers. Therefore, I would very much like the Russian military department to become the first customer, and not interested foreign customers.
The main characteristics of the PTS-4:
- full weight - 33.1 tons;
- Department of management (cabin) double performance;
- land / water payload up to 12 / 18 tons;
- the speed of movement of land / water to 60 / 15 km / h;
- length - 8.3 meter;
- width -3.3 meter;
- engine power - HP 840;
- range on the ground to 600 kilometers;
- range of travel on water to 10.5 hours;
[/ b] Armament: [/ b]
- closed-type anti-aircraft gun - 12.7 mm machine gun on a remote control with a portable stock of 400 rounds of ammunition.
Information sources:
http://kbtm-omsk.ru/node/241
http://www.vestnik-rm.ru/news-4-2028.htm
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