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+ KurganetsInfantry fighting vehicle "Kurganets"
When "Kurganets" will go into service, what is the difference machine from previous versions, and also why the remote control BMP is similar to the gamepad for "Sony Playstation", in an interview with TASS news Agency said Vice President and co-owner of the concern "tractor plants" albert Tanks.
- What is fundamentally new in "Kurganets"?
- Any military equipment is developed on the basis of technical specifications of the Ministry of defence. And often designers have to wrestle over how to combine the seemingly incompatible.So, Mergance" priority requirement was to ensure comprehensive protection of personnel. And we have offered to date, an unprecedented level, providing, in addition to passive armor with ceramic panels, a kind of "protective dome", consisting of complexes of active protection and defense from the upper hemisphere systems for setting screens and electromagnetic protection. This has led to the increase of the weight of the machine, but designers, however, managed to secure the machine the ability to overcome water obstacles without preparation, and it is an indisputable superiority patency.
Significant difference "Kurganetsa" - uninhabited combat Department. On the one hand, we do not need to provide a high level of protection, on the other, the question arises - how to ensure quality management of combat compartment, because situations can arise very unpredictable. And there is still a lot of dilemmas to be resolved.
"Kurganets" the principle of the ideology of the digital Board that extends the automation of management processes and armament, and car in General, as well as the integration of machines into a single system management tactical link. Sighting systems with thermal imaging channels provide the possibility of conducting combat operations in both day and night. The vehicle commander can completely take control of the weapons themselves. Hardware and software complex allows to transmit information about detected or affected order from a superior commander, and get the same information from reconnaissance and other military units in real time.
- What innovations in the machine control?
Two years spent trying to convince designers to make the console in the "Kurganets" similar to the gamepad "Sony Playstation" to the young fighter was easier to navigate. We proceeded from functionality: right hand, left hand. Moreover, a similar form people worked for decades. By and large you can and handlebars to put. It's, you know, a question of size, location. Did some tests on dummies because some ledges and usually not noticeable. Steering column, as it turns out, is really dangerous for the chest at impact, with the loss unnoticed. It takes a lot of space, but gives nothing.
- Why on "Kurganets" returned to the front engine layout?
- The fact that the front-engine layout provides a safer landing via the stern ramp under the cover of the machine body. Moreover, such arrangement allows you to increase the space of the troop compartment in the stern. But then the problem arises: because of the shift engine shifts the center of gravity, and the nose of the machine when fording streams can "dig" into the wave. "Kurganets" our developers found a technical solution for balancing back and front of the car, floating on the water surface.
- When the BMP on the platform "Kurganets-25" can come on Board?
- Development work on the creation of the machines on the platform "Kurganets-25" is not completed. The prototypes will be subjected to a preliminary, and then state tests. So what about the new platform, we can say that the Russian defense Ministry has already ordered for the trial operation of batch BMP "Kurganets". If all goes well, full-fledged mass production of cars planned for 2017-2018.
- How do pass the test machines of this type? What is checked? What military pay attention the most?
- During the state trials of these machines military monitored the performance of each requirement described in tactical and technical task. The tests will be multiple samples, and tests are conducted in different climatic zones of Russia. Checked even output ability amphibious ships and set them in sea conditions with waves up to 3 points. About "Kurgancha" the Ministry of defence is wide enough step, wanting to get them faster. Machines come in different military units, each of which has its own specific task. What do you say chemists, scouts? Why need modification.
When we sent a batch of BMD-4M paratroopers, they began their "kill", especially naturally. Typing speed of 90 km/hour, and time after time make the 90 degree turn. And waiting for something to break down. After a 40-year rotation, for example, a (zabranjeno) appears on the balancer. KB said it's a really constructive defect requiring correction of design documentation for its exclusion in the future. The test is a serious thing.Incidentally, we specifically asked the Russian airborne troops commander Vladimir Anatolyevich Shamanov, that he sent to us the commander of the part where experienced BMD-4M. The conversation was unpleasant. Paratrooper rightly noticed one thing in common, we sometimes feel. He said, "You perceive us as people who are in these machines will be at war, and we - the people who in these machines will die. And we would not want that to happen due to the fact that refused transmission or a broken rocker". This, incidentally, made a very great impression on our designers, they then could not recover.
Military take the car incredibly hard – make no mistake. When going abroad, it passes the strictest military acceptance, because no one can avoid shame. So in their own country. With neither partner worked, the deadlines are met - or die, and put to the day. In the military everything is done properly, won't slip.
Interviewed By Alexei Panshin
http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/1954916?page=3
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