Russian Airborne Troops are looking forward to entering the modern weapons of self-propelled anti-tank gun “Octopus-SDM1”, and hope to get it as early as 2020 year, said the commander of the Airborne Troops Andrey Serdyukov.
According to his statement, State tests of self-propelled anti-tank gun”Octopus-SDM1″ will begin in December this year and will take place over the next. According to plans of the Russian Defense Ministry, already in 2020 , the new car will be supplied to the Airborne divisions, where she was waiting for a very. In accordance with the state program of armament Airborne Divisional get a set of new “octopus”.
Within the framework of the working visit, Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov checked the production of self-propelled anti-tank guns “Octopus-SDM1” to GVA, visiting Volgograd machine-building company “VgTZ”. VDV commander familiar with the production capacity, samples examined propelled guns antitank “Octopus-SDM1” and toured the production cycle of combat vehicle BMD-4M.
“Octopus-SDM1” designed for fire support units, combat armored vehicles, destruction of strongholds and fortifications of the enemy, conduct reconnaissance and outposts. The machine is equipped with a gun, 125 mm, sparennym caliber machinegun 7,62 mm and a remote-controlled machine gun mount of the same caliber.
