BTR-MD "Shell" (GBTU Index - Object 955) - Russian armored personnel carrier desantiruemye. Created in the design office of the Volgograd Tractor Plant. It represents a high-speed multi-purpose armored floating aviatransportiruemuyu and aviadesantiruemuyu tracked vehicle for solving transport problems of subdivisions and units of airborne troops and the amphibious assault.
BTR-MD Shell – video
By analogy with the family BMD-BTR-D aviadesantiruemy BTR-MD differs from the baseline BMD-3 lack of towers and larger dimensions housing. The similarity to the previous family, generally, and ends. In this case not necessary to increase the length of the chassis, and BTR-MD is made on the same pyatikatkovoy (pyatiopornoy) basis, that BMD-3.
Armored personnel carrier is arranged according to the scheme with rear MTO and front - office management. Mean separation body can be used for placement of the landing, wounded on stretchers, or the supply of goods. Branch control and the middle compartment located inside the high conning-tower type housing, takes about 2/3 the total length of the machine. Weld sealed armored body made of aluminum alloy armor; broadening in the upper part of the housing forms large nadgusenichnye niches with vertical sides.
Frontal body sheets arranged with an inclination to the vertical and forming a convex polyline in vertical longitudinal section. The slope of the front plate and the characteristic "cheekbone" body somewhat increase the security of the frontal projection. At the same time, the size and shape of the housing are designed to provide the maximum possible capacity of the machine under severe restrictions on weight and height allowed, specifies requirements parachute landing of the aircraft of military transport aircraft, a lower housing part made reinforced side bevels - planing steps.
Driver mechanic, as in BMD-3, It is located in the axis of the machine control department. At his workplace mounted controls, including adjustable steering column. Right and left of the driver's seat is located on the two universal seat on an elevated Polikey. Above the seats of the driver and the right of it a paratrooper in the roof hatches are available with hinged lids. driver's workplace is equipped with three periscopes observation TNPO-170A; Average unit can be replaced with night vision devices.
On the left side in front of a roof of the shell mounted rotary commander's cupola closed with an autonomous machine gun mount 7.62mm PKT (PKTM) with an external power supply system and the eye 1P67M. The turret is equipped with a surveillance device TKN-ZMB illuminator with OU-RSA, periscope observation TNPT-1 and 170A-TNPO, the lifting mechanism and the top hatch. Universal seat-operator command associated with the overhead turret and rotates with it (rotating turret with a remotely controlled 7.62-mm machine gun was set for another prototype version of the BTR-D, but then it was abandoned).
The right side of the driver's compartment is mounted exchange rate setting, accommodates 5.45-mm machine gun or machine RPKS74 AKS74 (AK74M), above it is a periscope sight-surveillance device TNPP-220A. The sides of the middle part and in the cover hatchway three ball valves mounted installation, designed to be fired from an individual weapon assault. On the upper front hull plates are attached two sets of smoke grenade "cloud" system.
In the middle part of the body to the board installed reclining double seats with folding backrests - three Marines on board are placed on the seat forward facing car; seats are equipped with a set of harness. For landing and the landing door are large aft and two rectangular hatch in the roof of the housing.
Behind airborne seats on the left side in the middle portion of the housing is a compartment with an independent power unit, on the right side - air duct with a sliding air intake duct and the outside air cleaning system comprising a blower with HLF, secondary filter, filter-absorber and air ducts. Ducts allow directional regulated supply of purified air in the area of jobs. By air ducts can be connected personal respiratory protective equipment - eg, half masks. Each universal seat of the crew in the ground state ("Sitting") rod is attached to the bracket on the inner side of the roof.
In the position for landing it is detached from the bracket, lowered to abutment, associated with elevated Polikom, and folds. In landing a paratrooper in the machine, a stay in the seat, pulls the webbing belt, head rests on the seat headrest, feet - on the bandwagon to Polikey. As in the basic machine, universal mounting seat to the roof increases in ground position when the security paratroopers landmine or roadside bomb.
An important innovation in the BTR-MD was the installation at the bottom of the control compartment and the middle compartment of electric devices, working together with electric heating and providing the habitable volume of the recirculation mode armored. Air is drawn directly from the habitable volume and after heating is supplied from under elevated Polikom (of BMD-3, and BMD-4 such a system is not used). power unit, transmission, chassis and bodies of the BTR-MD control are broadly similar to the BMD-3 (BMD-4).
BTR-MD adapts quickly to solve the problems of evacuation of the wounded and transporting supplies of goods. To do this, there are brackets and removable devices to install tiered stretchers with the wounded in the average office, as well as devices for fixing using seat belts with locks of various cargoes (boxes of ammunition, containers with liquid substances and TP.). In addition to the brackets and straps to install sanitary stretcher, along the sides of the machine are placed in the middle compartment styling with first aid equipment (for example - sets "Rose-MT", oxygen inhaler CI-4, apparatus for artificial respiration DP-10-02, and others.).
For loading and unloading of the goods transported through the aft hatch removable ramps and exhaust belts can be used. For external connection are mounted in front housing part VHF-P and P-168-5UV 168-25U, provide radio coverage on the move, respectively, to 10 and to 20 km. Antenna conclusions are made on the roof of the building - at the right side and the edge of the hatchway.
characteristically, that the BTR-MD has the same combat weight, that BMD-3 - 13,2 t. A new base has increased the capacity aviadesantiruemogo armored almost 1,5 times compared to the BTR-D and almost equate it with a heavier floating BTR-50P (All these machines were produced at VgTZ). The buoyancy of the BTR-MD ("Shell") It is provided with a displacement body. Volnootrazhatelny hinged shield mounted on the upper front hull.
reserve buoyancy, stability and freeboard height afloat in combination with water-jet allows not only to overcome the barriers to running water with appreciable passage, but armored landing with landing of the Navy ships and overcoming machine with a landing strip or cargo surf. When agitation for sliding the suction tube can be attached pipe for air intake when melt of.
Although the TTP for the development of landing facilities for the BTR-MD "Shell" has been issued yet 1992 g, their creation was delayed more, than of the BTR-MD. Only after the issuance in September 2009 g. TTZ on the topic "Bakhcha-in-PDS" (for BMD-4) as a supplement was reprinted TTZ on creating landing facilities for armored aviadesantiruemogo.
The performance characteristics of BTR-MD Shell
Crew, pers.: 2
landing, pers.: 13
Manufacturer: Russia Kurgan
Weight BTR-MD Shell
– 13,2 tonnes
Dimensions BTR-MD Shell
– body Length, mm: 6085
– housing width, mm: 3150
– Height, mm: 2700
– Clearance, mm: 100…500
Armor BTR-MD Shell
– Type broni: bulletproof
The armament of the BTR-MD Shell
– Shotgun: 2 × 7,62-mm PKTM
Engine BTR-MD Shell
– Engine power, l. from.: 450
Speed BTR-MD Shell
– Road speed, kmh: 71
– Speed over rough terrain, kmh: 45-50 average speed on a dry dirt road, 10 afloat
– Cruising on the highway, km: 500
– Cruising cross country, km: 350
– power density, l. p. / m: 30,3
– suspension type: gidropnevmatičeskaâ
– Gradeability, city.: 35
– to overcome the wall, m: 0,8
– trench, m: 1,5
– fording, m: floats
Photo BTR-MD Shell
Inside the BTR-MD Shell
