Tank T-90MS "TAGIL": Fire control system
Continuing the topic of parsing the design of the latest Russian tank T-90MS, let's see how things are going with the fire control system. After all, and the KALINA JMS is the main feature in this wonderful device.
The basis of the on-board equipment complex is a modern, world-class, KALINA control system consisting of a gunner's multispectral sight, a commander's panoramic sight with a digital ballistic computer and a set of firing conditions sensors. The combat information and control system of the tactical level is integrated into the MSA. The multi-spectral SLA is designed to ensure the high efficiency of the use of a combat vehicle in conflicts of various levels, during the day (day and night). Multispectral integrated sights occupy a smaller armored volume, and the SLA as a whole has significantly fewer controls, which simplifies crew training and tank operation. When equipping mixed tank units with tanks and fire support combat vehicles of the BMPT type, a high degree of unification of the SLA is simply necessary and is ensured in this case. Such unification is guaranteed due to the widespread use of developments in this area, made during the implementation of the development work "Slingshot-1" and especially "Frame-99". Integration into the automated control system was carried out as part of the R&D "Slider". The general principle of operation of the KALINA control system is the complex interaction of the sighting system, the guided weapon system, stabilized weapon guidance electric drives, control systems for the weapon actuators, consoles and control panels with the appropriate equipment of the control system computer complex, which provides reception of information signals, the formation of control commands and other the necessary information in accordance with the algorithms of the OMS in various modes. In this case, the pairing of elements is ensured by information exchange over a multiplex channel (GOST R 52070-2003 is the Russian analogue of the American military standard MIL-STD-1553). The structure of the SLA also integrates the equipment of the system for setting aerosol and smoke screens, the equipment for identifying "friend or foe" and the operation of the automated control system for the tank battalion (ASUtb).
The main elements of the FCS are the Sosna-U PNM gunner’s combined sight and the Sokoliniy Glaz PAN commander’s panoramic sight, designed as a functionally complete multi-channel sighting system that provides the gunner and commander with high efficiency in the combat use of weapons due to wide search capabilities at any time. time of day (day, in conditions of limited visibility and at night), high accuracy of stabilization of the aiming line in two planes.
In general, the search, observation and aiming capabilities of the KALINA control system are provided through a comprehensive solution to the problems of detecting and recognizing targets by: integrating the tank through the interaction system into the automated control system, which makes it possible to quickly obtain information about the types and location of reconnoitered targets; integrating the means of visualization of the interaction system with information about the current position of the commander's panorama observation sector, which makes it possible to move the panorama field of view as quickly as possible to the target location area detected on the electronic map of the area; the fastest recognition and identification of targets through the use of the commander's multispectral panoramic sight, which has a low-level TV channel (observation in the visible spectrum) and a TP channel (observation in the IR spectrum), as well as through the use of processing modes (improvement) of the observed image ; capturing a target for auto-tracking and transmitting it through the target designation mode in the field of technical vision of the gunner's multi-channel sight (implementation of the "hunter-shooter" function); integrating the commander's prism devices, which provide close visibility, with the commander's panorama by organizing the mode of bringing the panorama to the selected prism device, as well as displaying information about the position of the line of sight of the panorama in the field of view of the corresponding prism device. The upgraded armament stabilizer provides a high transfer rate of up to 40 deg/sec.
Evaluating LMS “KALINA” according to the complex of possibilities and the range of tasks to be solved, one can declare, without false modesty, the fact of the creation in Russia of a tank LMS not only corresponding to the world level, but also superior to it.
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