BKM "Narwhal" has successfully passed the tests

_{Combat module on "land" carrier}

Information about the successful testing of the newest shipborne combat module "Narwhal" has been confirmed. We are talking about a module with remote control of weapons, developed by NPO Elektromashina.

According to the general director of this enterprise, Igor Afanasyev, to TASS journalists, the combat ship module during the tests "showed everything that was needed." Afanasyev added that today the competition in this segment is extremely high, and therefore it is extremely important for NPO Elektromashina to confirm all the main performance characteristics of Narwala. One of the important components in terms of competitiveness, according to the head of the developer company, is the price-quality ratio.

According to Igor Afanasyev, the Narval Naval Combat Module (BKM) is easier to operate than similar modules from other manufacturers.

"Narwhal" can be installed on ships and boats. In particular, it can be used on coastal protection ships.

According to Afanasyev, expressed for TASS, foreign countries are also showing interest in the combat module. Which ones, he does not say.

According to some reports, the Narwhal BKM is armed with a 12,7-mm Kord machine gun, a laser range finder, a thermal imaging system, as well as a gyroscopic stabilization system, which allows aimed fire at a certain level of sea waves.

The combat module also has a "land" version. In fact, this is a universal BM that can be installed on various carriers.

Comments

[Victor_B]

Afanasyev added that today the competition in this segment is extremely high,

The number of combat modules will soon (or already?) Exceed the number of possible platforms for their installation.

[novel66]

it's time to go back to armored trains

[Victor_B]

it's time to go back to armored trains

And put on ALL (!) Existing modules!
That will be beauty!
Lepote!

[Grandfather]

Quote: novel xnumx

it's time to go back to armored trains

to such ...?

you can also go to the tanks ...

although ... already ...

[Lionnvrsk]

Quote: Victor_B

The number of combat modules will soon (or already?) Exceed the number of possible platforms

And the quality? Based on the words of the developer, it is worth considering.

One of the important components in terms of competitiveness, according to the head of the developer company, is the price-quality ratio.

[Petro_tut]

The number of combat modules will soon (or already?) Exceed the number of possible platforms for their installation.

More jihad mobilis, there is no plowed field

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

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"Narwhal" tore everyone up ...
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[d1975]

Does this mean they will remove the sailor - the arrow? I hope it will be so. Is it only Kord armament or can KPVT also do it?

[Kapkan]

Not really. We need a loader, there are 250 in the store.
If there is a misfire, then it is eliminated automatically. Well, the operator is still needed, somewhere remotely.

Armament is only Kord or can KPVT do the same?

Not only CPV can do it. It would be a terms of reference.

[d1975]

I meant that the sailor will not be a target, as in a shooting range, on deck.

[Kapkan]

It depends on how to mount it, if it is completely autonomous, then there will be no sailor. The box will run out to change with cartridges.
If as a turret with the possibility of manual firing, then, as it were, at will or need.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Only the turret is desirable to have with a seated position of the shooter, and not as on the MTPU-14,5. It is like the difference between standing, kneeling or prone positions when performing shooting practice on a range. Lying down or from his knees somehow turns out much more efficiently, but the designers of standing machine-gun installations, it turns out, do not even suspect about it.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: d1975

I meant that the sailor will not be a target, as in a shooting range, on deck.

Will. Because the Navy will require traditional guidance from the sighting column.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

When I look at the miracle of engineering, the 14,5 mm MTPU naval machine gun mount, it seems to me that it is possible to shoot from it, but it is unlikely to hit. Or am I mistaken, and there are stuntmen capable of standing, in sea roughness, with the opposition of the enemy, and also to hit the target?

[vl903]

it seems like with a mechanical drive, column units are much faster in aiming, throwing from side to side and better when shooting in waves than mechanical turrets, of course, up to a certain mass

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

They have done a lot of combat modules, but they cannot make electric drives to machine-gun turrets and hatches on the roofs of such machines as the Tiger and others. Suppose it is difficult to install a stabilizer on the hatch, but the horizontal and vertical drives can certainly be installed. Technical solutions from the middle of the last century still live here, stick out and spin as you want, and if you go down under the armor, then you will not be able to fire. And what can we say about the machine-gun turrets on the hatches, if on the modernized BRDM-2 the electric drive on the tower did not appear.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

The very approach to installing completely uninhabited modules does not seem very justified. A better solution seems to me to modernize the ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun, at least to the level of the ZU-23 / 30M1-4, where automatic control appears while maintaining the manual one. Duplication of manual drives allows, in case of failure, or impossibility of use, automation to maintain the possibility of firing.

[Kapkan]

It seems to me that you do not understand the essence of this module from the article.
In fact, this is a highly accurate, one might say, sniper module. And the defeat of the target is implied from the first shot.
ZU23 .... etc. this is a fundamentally different purpose - it creates a "cloud" of projectiles through which it is difficult for an air target to penetrate. And when working on the ground, it is able to crumble everything around the target, but not hit it.
The module of the Electric Machine can stand without a platform on the turret, rotating 360, and at the same time it can be used simply in manual mode by going to the rack in case of electronics failure.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Now I see that there is also manual control. But I had in mind a slightly different, equipped place for shooting, not the installation on ships and boats ZU-23-2, but the approach itself, when the gunner-gunner can, sitting, when the automation is turned off, fire in a semi-automatic with the help of drives, or manual mode. Roughly speaking, the ZU-23 / 30M1-4 has an operator's seat, a Cheburashka, and horizontal and vertical handwheels.
A completely uninhabited module also has a right to exist, especially where the dimensions do not allow planting an arrow. Huge progress compared to MTPU-14,5.