The Russian Defense Ministry has approved a new concept of development of armored vehicles, break the news.
According to this concept, all light combat armored vehicles - BTR, BMP and armored cars - will be equipped with new cannons 57 mm with high rate.
The concept adopted in the current year. Before that were held OCD, confirmed the feasibility armored weapons 57 mm cannons. Currently, most of the armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles set caliber gun 30 mm, which are not always effective in the fight against armored and high goals.
A more powerful cannon will allow crews to engage not only with mild enemy vehicles, but also with tanks, taking down heavy fire sights, thermal imaging cameras and other external equipment. Ammunition may also hit the side of the tank type "Abrams".
Besides, the battlefield is increasingly becoming the main objective is not the enemy armored vehicles, and light-speed cars and attack drones. These targets must be destroyed at a maximum distance, before "Jihad-mobiles" is used guided missiles, UAVs will give information to the command post.
Now available in the army armored vehicles are already armed with 57mm remotely operated artillery module AU-220M "Baikal". Its rate reaches 120 rounds per minute. For advanced machines, such as BMP-15 T, It developed a new module "Dagger", gun which is capable of hitting a target at a distance 14 km.
And for the 57-mm self-propelled guns, "Derivation-defense" developed guided missile, who can hit low-flying targets and unobtrusive, such as MLRS rocket ammunition, cruise missiles, drones and other objects.
According to experts, new guns considerably enhance the firepower of the Army and ensure superiority over the Russian military equipment armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles of the leading countries of the world. So, received by the 2015 , the armament of the Bundeswehr hard BMP "Puma" is equipped with only a 30 mm gun.
