Ukrainian armored vehicles through the eyes of a design engineer
Samples of the new and deeply modernized Ukrainian armored vehicles (BTT) are being actively discussed in the Russian and foreign media, as well as the prospects for promoting these products on the national and international weapons and military equipment markets. This is partly due to the factor of recently concluded supply contracts abroad, which led some experts to assert about the allegedly significant potential of the industry and the impressive quality of armored vehicles made in Ukraine. But an attempt to objectively analyze what these machines actually represent, as well as the realities of their advancement, makes it possible to speak of a greatly exaggerated assessment of the prospects.
According to the results of the closing 2012 year, it can be said that certain changes in the entry of new and modernized armored vehicles into the Ukrainian army have occurred. This contributes to some increase in funding. As the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Dmitry Salamatin reported, in 2012, for the development of IWT, the defense budget provided for 2,343 billion hryvnia (293 million dollars), while 1,48 billion hryvnia (185 million dollars) was allocated by the state defense order (though some of this money was allocated by special fund, that is, at the expense of the funds that the army must earn by itself. - Prim.avt.).
First of all, the Ukrainian army officially armed itself with a new generation of armored personnel carriers, adopting this year the new armored personnel carrier BTR-4. The corresponding order from 24 July 2012 year was signed by the head of the military department of the country. According to him, the production of BTR-4 and its modifications will allow Ukraine to get rid of the purchase of such weapons abroad and strengthen its position as a special exporter.
Ukraine is trying to be an active player in the global BBT market. This is confirmed by official reports of government agencies engaged in export control. In particular, in 2011, Sudan received from Ukraine 40 repaired and modernized tanks T-72M1, five T-55, eight BTR-3, 16 BMP-1, ten BRDM-2. Ethiopia acquired 72 T-72B1, Thailand - 24 BTR-3E1, and Iraq - four BTR-44K and 20 BTR-4. In 2012, sales figures will be even larger. In particular, deliveries of the BTR-4 to Iraq are ongoing, and the GP Malyshev Plant (Kharkov) has begun the implementation of a three-year contract for the supply of a batch of Oplot tanks to Thailand.
Ukraine is also planning to launch the joint production of the armored personnel carrier BTR-4 with Kazakhstan JSC NC Kazakhstan Engineering. This was recently stated by the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrei Klyuev: “It is assumed that our country will not only provide the supply of technological lines and components for the joint production of the BTR-4 in Kazakhstan, but will also conduct training for local personnel. In May, an agreement was signed on the joint production of hundreds of armored vehicles. ”
About love tread on a rake
At one time, the presence in the Armed Forces of the USSR of the same type of armored vehicles of various models (T-72, T-64, T-80 tanks, BTR-60PB, BTR-70, BTR-80 armored personnel carriers) was considered inappropriate, primarily because of difficulties in the training of crews, their maintenance and repair, especially in combat conditions.
It looks like the military leadership of Ukraine lessons stories he does not know and wants to invent his national way of updating the armored vehicles arsenals for the umpteenth time. But the fact that the Soviet Union could allow itself in this aspect does not at all mean the acceptability of such a route for Ukraine, whose armed forces barely make ends meet on financing issues (note that the example of the US military, which now uses a large number of different types of combat vehicles MRAP, for other countries is not indicative. Americans were forced to simultaneously purchase so many cars from different manufacturers because of the need to ensure the protection of personnel in hot spots in a short time. to this world. - Comments
In the case of Ukraine, there is a situation when the tail wags the dog: the developers and manufacturers (that is, the DIC) instead of fulfilling the requests of the military themselves impose on them products and services on the principle of one-sided advantage. This is very well illustrated by the example of lobbying for plans to equip the Ukrainian army with new types of local armored personnel carriers of four types at once.
The basis of the BTR fleet of mechanized, airmobile and some other units are the BTR-80, which have significant potential for modernization. But the old BTR-70 also remained, and in small quantities: the need for re-equipment amounts to only a few battalions.
Therefore, the provisions of the State Program for the Development of Armaments and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other documents provide for the army to begin rearmament with BTR-4 armored personnel carriers to replace, first and foremost, obsolete BTR-70. That is, the BTR-4 is considered as the main prospective model of an armored personnel carrier for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It would seem that you can bring to mind the project BTR-4 and on its basis to solve many issues of updating the fleet of light wheeled armored vehicles of the Ukrainian army. But in Ukraine they think differently, since the drafts of program documents for reforming and developing the country's armed forces (in terms of IWT development) for the medium term consider the purchase of equipment samples mounted on the BTR-70 base chassis, upgraded at Nikolayevsk Repair and Mechanical Plant to the level BTR-70DI (primarily for control units of air defense units and command and staff). In addition, the military-industrial complex is lobbying for the adoption of the classic combat BTR-70DI in order to increase its export attractiveness.
In addition, the SE "Kiev Repair and Mechanical Plant" created another similar armored personnel carrier - the BTR-3Е1. Understanding that the adoption of the BTR-3Е1 by the Ukrainian Armed Forces will positively affect its attractiveness for foreign customers, the state concern Ukroboronprom puts pressure on the Defense Ministry regarding the conduct of state tests of the BTR-3EX1 and its adoption by the armed forces of the country. And there is reason to think that this will happen. Thus, Ukraine has every chance of overtaking the former Soviet Union, having in service in four times armored personnel carriers reduced by ten times in comparison with the USSR army.
Quality questions
Paying tribute to the work of the creators of the BTR-4, I still want to express my opinion regarding this car. Of course, this is a step forward in comparison, for example, with the BTR-70. But there are issues related to a certain ideological backwardness of the BTR-4 design and its technical dampness due to production quality problems. This has a foundation. It is no secret that the first batch of these armored personnel carriers for Iraq remained in the factory workshops for an unacceptably long time, almost breaking the international contract. It turned out that the 11 BTR-4E on automatic cannons (almost a complete copy of the Soviet 2А42 cannons produced by the defense company from Kamenetz-Podolsky) were found to be flawed, they allowed for misfires and delays.
In the activities of the Ukrainian defense industry there are elements of self-deception. What is, for example, new armored personnel carriers offered by the Kiev and Nikolaev repair and mechanical plants for their army and foreign customers? In fact, these are the modified corps of the old armored vehicles (BTR-70), into which they stuffed the new stuffing in the form of foreign-made engines, Ukrainian weapons modules, etc. In terms of price, this is a good offer. But in terms of the survivability of the machine itself, the security of the crew, and the compliance with the requirements of modern conditions of counter-insurgency military conflicts, there are very big doubts. Yes, and the old repair fund of cars, withdrawn from the combat strength of the Ukrainian army, from which new cars are made, is not enough to infinity.
Another indicator of the intellectual potential of the creators of the Ukrainian armored vehicles is the situation with the future armored reconnaissance and patrol vehicles BRDM-2. One of the enterprises of the defense industry complex of Ukraine has developed a program for its modernization. Naturally, it would be desirable for manufacturers to purchase updated cars by their own military department. Or at least the fact of its official adoption.
At first, the Ukrainian General Staff analyzed the situation and honestly stated that for the BRDM-2, even if it was modernized, there was no place in significant quantities in the promising appearance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is due to the fact that the machine is simply outdated and has limited potential for use in modern conditions. But soon a political decision followed from the top with the filing of interested defense industry structures that such a machine was still needed. The preparation of the necessary documents has begun. As a result, experts from the Central Scientific Research Institute of the Armed Forces of the country found an opportunity to show their intellectual potential, declaring operational and tactical requirements for the machine. For example, that it should stay afloat for about 20 hours, and have a speed on water that is comparable with the speed of a motor boat. It is interesting, for what tasks of the Ukrainian army were these figures justified? As a way to compensate for the lack of ship composition fleet, especially the presence of only two landing ships? You see, with such armored vehicles, ships are no longer needed. Twenty hours afloat - and to the coast of Romania you can row. And after a stop - and get to Turkey. Cossacks once walked on their seagulls to Constantinople. And what is worse than the current ones? That is, there is a fact when the status of doctors of sciences and general stars did not help to understand that this defense industry machine has already been created (or rather, modernized), and all documents about its necessity / uselessness for the Ukrainian Armed Forces are written retroactively to please lobbyists from the defense industry. Not for the Ukrainian army, but only for giving the modernized BRDM-2 official status for its more effective sale abroad.
By the way, several years from all the tribunes there have been statements that modern and effective special operations forces (MTR) will be created in Ukraine. Judging by the open media publications, the current heads of the General Staff have already removed this task from the priority list. Be that as it may, SSOs require, among other things, appropriate vehicles, including armored ones, designed to ensure the actions of special forces. In other countries, this has been reflected in the creation of buggy-type machines, various lightly armored assault vehicles and off-road vehicles for off-road operations. But for the Ukrainian military this is still a dream. Moreover, the special unit "Omega" of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already received buggy assault vehicles in its arsenal. The Alpha Special Forces of the Security Service of Ukraine on the eve of Euro-2012 flaunted at various anti-terrorism exercises on the new Hammers. A special forces army, apparently decided to offer a slightly modified BRDM-2 of fifty years of age.
Essentially
In the context of the above, information that appeared in the media in connection with the events in Syria is curious. Footage of video clips showed that Syrian security forces are using armored vehicles against anti-government forces, which have not been refined in terms of protection for the conditions of action in populated areas and against rebels. Naturally, this explains the significant losses among the crews and the failure of the machines themselves. Military observers quite rightly noted that such a problem is also characteristic of Ukraine. After all, armored vehicles of power structures are absolutely not ready to act in the conditions of a modern war. At the same time, the main teachings of the Ukrainian army of the current year, “Perspective-2012”, according to reports from the website of the military department, among other things, were aimed at combating illegal armed groups.
The pages of the recently adopted National Security Strategy of Ukraine and the Military Doctrine of Ukraine clearly spelled out the task for the army to be prepared for such actions, as well as what is commonly called peacekeeping operations. That is, the relevance of the issues of the arsenal of peacekeeping contingents has not been removed from the agenda. But the media have repeatedly written that the Ukrainian peacekeepers in Kosovo perform their tasks on ordinary UAZ vehicles that do not even have easily removable local reservations.
If we conduct a more or less impartial analysis of the characteristics of all the APCs mentioned above, there is a desire to name the policy of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to re-equip its own army with ostrich. Otherwise, how to understand the silence of the fact that the ideology of the family of MRAP machines and the like is not discussed at all, although the entire civilized world considers the issues of the future armored vehicle park exclusively through the prism of ensuring reliable protection of personnel.
Moreover, the country's defense complex develops such machines and can produce them without any particular problems. An example is the public joint-stock company AvtoKrAZ, which, in partnership with foreign colleagues, has created an armored KrAZ-01-1-11 / SLDSL MRAP vehicle. Indian partner, it is designated as KRAZ MPV. Structurally, the BBM is based on the all-wheel drive vehicle-chassis KrAZ-5233BE of the wheel formula 4х4 with the diesel engine YMZ-238Е2 with horsepower 330. The hull is made by the Indians. It is planned to create a version of this car on the KrAZ chassis and with the wheel formula 6х6.
Above, we talked mainly about the problems of rearming with armored vehicles in relation to wheeled armored personnel carriers. But this is not an isolated example. Something similar is observed in the future of the tank park of the Ukrainian army. At the same time, two vehicles are being considered: the new T-84 Oplot and the T-64 tank that has been deeply upgraded to the Bulat version.
Indeed, the Soviet tank design school allows Ukrainian developers and manufacturers to produce good cars. But only until a certain time. Now, any armored vehicle in the civilized world is considered as an element of the weapon system (combat platform), the integration of the component parts of which into the system occurs primarily in the information plan. The developers of the same T-84 emphasize that the machine has many attributes of the information age: space navigation system, digital communications, etc. But in reality there is no Ukrainian army, and most likely in the foreseeable future, there is no automated tactical command and control system, which will be brought to the level of a separate infantryman - fire weapon - combat vehicle.
The intention to create such an ACS was declared by the Odessa enterprise Telekard-Pribor. But apart from the development of individual elements, and on the basis of foreign components, the matter did not move further. Instead, the management of the company focused on finding an administrative resource that would allow to wishful thinking and impose products of dubious quality on the Ukrainian army.
The topic of the ACS tactical level for the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be continued indefinitely, but the fact remains: a significant increase in the combat potential of the so-called new models of the Ukrainian BTT has not occurred due to informational integration. As a result, it is simply ridiculous to suggest the development of BTT as an opportunity to qualitatively update the arsenal of the Ukrainian army.
Therefore, the declarations of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the military-industrial complex, the advertising campaign in the media are the usual bustle, which is trying to cover the problems of rearmament of the army, the quality of models of armored vehicles created in Ukraine, the prospects for their production and promotion abroad.
Help "MIC"
The BTR-4 has fundamental differences in the layout of the compartments compared to the BTR-60, -70, -80:
control - front;
middle - engine-transmission;
rear - combat and landing.
This layout allows you to quickly transform the combat and amphibious units without changing the layout decisions on the power plant and transmission to install various combat modules and create a wide family of machines. The “payload” reserve of the armored personnel carrier chassis makes it possible to install additional protection, which provides enhanced mine protection and frontal projection stability from ammunition to automatic small-caliber guns. The aft layout of the main landing hatches allows for the landing (disembarkation) of the landing under the cover of armor, it meets the generally accepted requirements for promising armored vehicles.
KrAZ-01-1-11 / SLDSL is a multi-purpose vehicle, armored personnel carrier, designed for transporting personnel of units and their fire support, can be used as a carrier of various weapons and military equipment.
Protection against small arms and weapons mass destruction provide a solid body supporting structure, reinforced with armor steel; double doors and side walls, the space between which is filled with explosion-proof material with a thickness of 25 millimeters; floor design consisting of three walls that form a wedge-shaped bottom, which disperses the shock wave.
The BBM KRAZ-01-1-11 / SLDSL is designed for transporting 12 fighters, equipped with a Rigel MK, 8 swivel turret inside the car, communications, an audiovisual surveillance system with an 360 degree of rotation, and night vision and rear-view cameras with a half-kilometer long distance view and a half-meter range. The level of protection of the armor of the vertical walls, bulletproof glass armor engine compartment corresponds to the level of 3A STANAG 4569. The explosion-proof material of the floor and side walls of THIKA MINEPLATE exceeds the NATO requirements STANAG 4569 level 2.
According to the results of the closing 2012 year, it can be said that certain changes in the entry of new and modernized armored vehicles into the Ukrainian army have occurred. This contributes to some increase in funding. As the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Dmitry Salamatin reported, in 2012, for the development of IWT, the defense budget provided for 2,343 billion hryvnia (293 million dollars), while 1,48 billion hryvnia (185 million dollars) was allocated by the state defense order (though some of this money was allocated by special fund, that is, at the expense of the funds that the army must earn by itself. - Prim.avt.).
First of all, the Ukrainian army officially armed itself with a new generation of armored personnel carriers, adopting this year the new armored personnel carrier BTR-4. The corresponding order from 24 July 2012 year was signed by the head of the military department of the country. According to him, the production of BTR-4 and its modifications will allow Ukraine to get rid of the purchase of such weapons abroad and strengthen its position as a special exporter.Ukraine is trying to be an active player in the global BBT market. This is confirmed by official reports of government agencies engaged in export control. In particular, in 2011, Sudan received from Ukraine 40 repaired and modernized tanks T-72M1, five T-55, eight BTR-3, 16 BMP-1, ten BRDM-2. Ethiopia acquired 72 T-72B1, Thailand - 24 BTR-3E1, and Iraq - four BTR-44K and 20 BTR-4. In 2012, sales figures will be even larger. In particular, deliveries of the BTR-4 to Iraq are ongoing, and the GP Malyshev Plant (Kharkov) has begun the implementation of a three-year contract for the supply of a batch of Oplot tanks to Thailand.
Ukraine is also planning to launch the joint production of the armored personnel carrier BTR-4 with Kazakhstan JSC NC Kazakhstan Engineering. This was recently stated by the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrei Klyuev: “It is assumed that our country will not only provide the supply of technological lines and components for the joint production of the BTR-4 in Kazakhstan, but will also conduct training for local personnel. In May, an agreement was signed on the joint production of hundreds of armored vehicles. ”
About love tread on a rake
At one time, the presence in the Armed Forces of the USSR of the same type of armored vehicles of various models (T-72, T-64, T-80 tanks, BTR-60PB, BTR-70, BTR-80 armored personnel carriers) was considered inappropriate, primarily because of difficulties in the training of crews, their maintenance and repair, especially in combat conditions.
It looks like the military leadership of Ukraine lessons stories he does not know and wants to invent his national way of updating the armored vehicles arsenals for the umpteenth time. But the fact that the Soviet Union could allow itself in this aspect does not at all mean the acceptability of such a route for Ukraine, whose armed forces barely make ends meet on financing issues (note that the example of the US military, which now uses a large number of different types of combat vehicles MRAP, for other countries is not indicative. Americans were forced to simultaneously purchase so many cars from different manufacturers because of the need to ensure the protection of personnel in hot spots in a short time. to this world. - Comments
In the case of Ukraine, there is a situation when the tail wags the dog: the developers and manufacturers (that is, the DIC) instead of fulfilling the requests of the military themselves impose on them products and services on the principle of one-sided advantage. This is very well illustrated by the example of lobbying for plans to equip the Ukrainian army with new types of local armored personnel carriers of four types at once.The basis of the BTR fleet of mechanized, airmobile and some other units are the BTR-80, which have significant potential for modernization. But the old BTR-70 also remained, and in small quantities: the need for re-equipment amounts to only a few battalions.
Therefore, the provisions of the State Program for the Development of Armaments and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other documents provide for the army to begin rearmament with BTR-4 armored personnel carriers to replace, first and foremost, obsolete BTR-70. That is, the BTR-4 is considered as the main prospective model of an armored personnel carrier for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It would seem that you can bring to mind the project BTR-4 and on its basis to solve many issues of updating the fleet of light wheeled armored vehicles of the Ukrainian army. But in Ukraine they think differently, since the drafts of program documents for reforming and developing the country's armed forces (in terms of IWT development) for the medium term consider the purchase of equipment samples mounted on the BTR-70 base chassis, upgraded at Nikolayevsk Repair and Mechanical Plant to the level BTR-70DI (primarily for control units of air defense units and command and staff). In addition, the military-industrial complex is lobbying for the adoption of the classic combat BTR-70DI in order to increase its export attractiveness.
In addition, the SE "Kiev Repair and Mechanical Plant" created another similar armored personnel carrier - the BTR-3Е1. Understanding that the adoption of the BTR-3Е1 by the Ukrainian Armed Forces will positively affect its attractiveness for foreign customers, the state concern Ukroboronprom puts pressure on the Defense Ministry regarding the conduct of state tests of the BTR-3EX1 and its adoption by the armed forces of the country. And there is reason to think that this will happen. Thus, Ukraine has every chance of overtaking the former Soviet Union, having in service in four times armored personnel carriers reduced by ten times in comparison with the USSR army.
Quality questions
Paying tribute to the work of the creators of the BTR-4, I still want to express my opinion regarding this car. Of course, this is a step forward in comparison, for example, with the BTR-70. But there are issues related to a certain ideological backwardness of the BTR-4 design and its technical dampness due to production quality problems. This has a foundation. It is no secret that the first batch of these armored personnel carriers for Iraq remained in the factory workshops for an unacceptably long time, almost breaking the international contract. It turned out that the 11 BTR-4E on automatic cannons (almost a complete copy of the Soviet 2А42 cannons produced by the defense company from Kamenetz-Podolsky) were found to be flawed, they allowed for misfires and delays.
In the activities of the Ukrainian defense industry there are elements of self-deception. What is, for example, new armored personnel carriers offered by the Kiev and Nikolaev repair and mechanical plants for their army and foreign customers? In fact, these are the modified corps of the old armored vehicles (BTR-70), into which they stuffed the new stuffing in the form of foreign-made engines, Ukrainian weapons modules, etc. In terms of price, this is a good offer. But in terms of the survivability of the machine itself, the security of the crew, and the compliance with the requirements of modern conditions of counter-insurgency military conflicts, there are very big doubts. Yes, and the old repair fund of cars, withdrawn from the combat strength of the Ukrainian army, from which new cars are made, is not enough to infinity.
Another indicator of the intellectual potential of the creators of the Ukrainian armored vehicles is the situation with the future armored reconnaissance and patrol vehicles BRDM-2. One of the enterprises of the defense industry complex of Ukraine has developed a program for its modernization. Naturally, it would be desirable for manufacturers to purchase updated cars by their own military department. Or at least the fact of its official adoption.
At first, the Ukrainian General Staff analyzed the situation and honestly stated that for the BRDM-2, even if it was modernized, there was no place in significant quantities in the promising appearance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is due to the fact that the machine is simply outdated and has limited potential for use in modern conditions. But soon a political decision followed from the top with the filing of interested defense industry structures that such a machine was still needed. The preparation of the necessary documents has begun. As a result, experts from the Central Scientific Research Institute of the Armed Forces of the country found an opportunity to show their intellectual potential, declaring operational and tactical requirements for the machine. For example, that it should stay afloat for about 20 hours, and have a speed on water that is comparable with the speed of a motor boat. It is interesting, for what tasks of the Ukrainian army were these figures justified? As a way to compensate for the lack of ship composition fleet, especially the presence of only two landing ships? You see, with such armored vehicles, ships are no longer needed. Twenty hours afloat - and to the coast of Romania you can row. And after a stop - and get to Turkey. Cossacks once walked on their seagulls to Constantinople. And what is worse than the current ones? That is, there is a fact when the status of doctors of sciences and general stars did not help to understand that this defense industry machine has already been created (or rather, modernized), and all documents about its necessity / uselessness for the Ukrainian Armed Forces are written retroactively to please lobbyists from the defense industry. Not for the Ukrainian army, but only for giving the modernized BRDM-2 official status for its more effective sale abroad.
By the way, several years from all the tribunes there have been statements that modern and effective special operations forces (MTR) will be created in Ukraine. Judging by the open media publications, the current heads of the General Staff have already removed this task from the priority list. Be that as it may, SSOs require, among other things, appropriate vehicles, including armored ones, designed to ensure the actions of special forces. In other countries, this has been reflected in the creation of buggy-type machines, various lightly armored assault vehicles and off-road vehicles for off-road operations. But for the Ukrainian military this is still a dream. Moreover, the special unit "Omega" of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already received buggy assault vehicles in its arsenal. The Alpha Special Forces of the Security Service of Ukraine on the eve of Euro-2012 flaunted at various anti-terrorism exercises on the new Hammers. A special forces army, apparently decided to offer a slightly modified BRDM-2 of fifty years of age.
Essentially
In the context of the above, information that appeared in the media in connection with the events in Syria is curious. Footage of video clips showed that Syrian security forces are using armored vehicles against anti-government forces, which have not been refined in terms of protection for the conditions of action in populated areas and against rebels. Naturally, this explains the significant losses among the crews and the failure of the machines themselves. Military observers quite rightly noted that such a problem is also characteristic of Ukraine. After all, armored vehicles of power structures are absolutely not ready to act in the conditions of a modern war. At the same time, the main teachings of the Ukrainian army of the current year, “Perspective-2012”, according to reports from the website of the military department, among other things, were aimed at combating illegal armed groups.
The pages of the recently adopted National Security Strategy of Ukraine and the Military Doctrine of Ukraine clearly spelled out the task for the army to be prepared for such actions, as well as what is commonly called peacekeeping operations. That is, the relevance of the issues of the arsenal of peacekeeping contingents has not been removed from the agenda. But the media have repeatedly written that the Ukrainian peacekeepers in Kosovo perform their tasks on ordinary UAZ vehicles that do not even have easily removable local reservations.
If we conduct a more or less impartial analysis of the characteristics of all the APCs mentioned above, there is a desire to name the policy of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to re-equip its own army with ostrich. Otherwise, how to understand the silence of the fact that the ideology of the family of MRAP machines and the like is not discussed at all, although the entire civilized world considers the issues of the future armored vehicle park exclusively through the prism of ensuring reliable protection of personnel.
Moreover, the country's defense complex develops such machines and can produce them without any particular problems. An example is the public joint-stock company AvtoKrAZ, which, in partnership with foreign colleagues, has created an armored KrAZ-01-1-11 / SLDSL MRAP vehicle. Indian partner, it is designated as KRAZ MPV. Structurally, the BBM is based on the all-wheel drive vehicle-chassis KrAZ-5233BE of the wheel formula 4х4 with the diesel engine YMZ-238Е2 with horsepower 330. The hull is made by the Indians. It is planned to create a version of this car on the KrAZ chassis and with the wheel formula 6х6.
Above, we talked mainly about the problems of rearming with armored vehicles in relation to wheeled armored personnel carriers. But this is not an isolated example. Something similar is observed in the future of the tank park of the Ukrainian army. At the same time, two vehicles are being considered: the new T-84 Oplot and the T-64 tank that has been deeply upgraded to the Bulat version.
Indeed, the Soviet tank design school allows Ukrainian developers and manufacturers to produce good cars. But only until a certain time. Now, any armored vehicle in the civilized world is considered as an element of the weapon system (combat platform), the integration of the component parts of which into the system occurs primarily in the information plan. The developers of the same T-84 emphasize that the machine has many attributes of the information age: space navigation system, digital communications, etc. But in reality there is no Ukrainian army, and most likely in the foreseeable future, there is no automated tactical command and control system, which will be brought to the level of a separate infantryman - fire weapon - combat vehicle.
The intention to create such an ACS was declared by the Odessa enterprise Telekard-Pribor. But apart from the development of individual elements, and on the basis of foreign components, the matter did not move further. Instead, the management of the company focused on finding an administrative resource that would allow to wishful thinking and impose products of dubious quality on the Ukrainian army.
The topic of the ACS tactical level for the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be continued indefinitely, but the fact remains: a significant increase in the combat potential of the so-called new models of the Ukrainian BTT has not occurred due to informational integration. As a result, it is simply ridiculous to suggest the development of BTT as an opportunity to qualitatively update the arsenal of the Ukrainian army.
Therefore, the declarations of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the military-industrial complex, the advertising campaign in the media are the usual bustle, which is trying to cover the problems of rearmament of the army, the quality of models of armored vehicles created in Ukraine, the prospects for their production and promotion abroad.
Help "MIC"
The BTR-4 has fundamental differences in the layout of the compartments compared to the BTR-60, -70, -80:
This layout allows you to quickly transform the combat and amphibious units without changing the layout decisions on the power plant and transmission to install various combat modules and create a wide family of machines. The “payload” reserve of the armored personnel carrier chassis makes it possible to install additional protection, which provides enhanced mine protection and frontal projection stability from ammunition to automatic small-caliber guns. The aft layout of the main landing hatches allows for the landing (disembarkation) of the landing under the cover of armor, it meets the generally accepted requirements for promising armored vehicles.KrAZ-01-1-11 / SLDSL is a multi-purpose vehicle, armored personnel carrier, designed for transporting personnel of units and their fire support, can be used as a carrier of various weapons and military equipment.Protection against small arms and weapons mass destruction provide a solid body supporting structure, reinforced with armor steel; double doors and side walls, the space between which is filled with explosion-proof material with a thickness of 25 millimeters; floor design consisting of three walls that form a wedge-shaped bottom, which disperses the shock wave.
The BBM KRAZ-01-1-11 / SLDSL is designed for transporting 12 fighters, equipped with a Rigel MK, 8 swivel turret inside the car, communications, an audiovisual surveillance system with an 360 degree of rotation, and night vision and rear-view cameras with a half-kilometer long distance view and a half-meter range. The level of protection of the armor of the vertical walls, bulletproof glass armor engine compartment corresponds to the level of 3A STANAG 4569. The explosion-proof material of the floor and side walls of THIKA MINEPLATE exceeds the NATO requirements STANAG 4569 level 2.
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