Announced two weeks earlier headquarters of the British military-industrial unit «MBDA Missile Systems» tactical and technical requirements for the design of long-term multi-tactical missile complex class "surface-to-surface" on the basis of multi-ur family «JAGM / Brimstone» once again puts the expert community at MIC, Defense Ministry and the command of the Russian CB facing a difficult dilemma: or take the path of least resistance, equipping certain amount of pieces of equipment consisting of units mechanized complexes active protection type "Arena-M" and "thrush", or to focus on giving motorized regiment tank crews and significant amounts of more expensive and prospective military air defense means, capable of reflecting massive enemy missiles with simultaneous application of tens of air attack.
Parry potential prospective troop missile system from MBDA in the European theater will enter the list of top priorities for anti-aircraft missiles for army air defense Russian Armed Forces
One side, taking into account the principle of building a missile defense echeloned / protivosnaryadnym "umbrella" over the armored divisions, whereby the long borders overlapped self propelled SAM small troop, medium and long range, and neighbors frontiers - Kazami, it is easy to conclude that, both mentioned in the first paragraph of the method of increasing the survival of armor are technically and tactically justified, and therefore, subject to immediate embodiment of "iron". Especially that pre-production and production models developed by the specialists of «MBDA Missile Systems» within the concept of «Conceptual Force (Land) 2035"Multipurpose missile system will be able to boast of having the oblique transport-launch module 10 guide to anti / multipurpose missile family «Hellfire / JAGM / Brimstone 2", in view of which can carry data salvo launches of rockets, and then "overloading" the target channel PFAR radar-guided military ZRSK "Tor-M1V / 2U".
On the other hand, talk about the essential contribution of active protection "Arena-M" and "Blackbird" in the formation of the anti-missile insurmountable / protivosnaryadnym barriers around units of heavy armored vehicles do not have to, as the area from elevation looking radar guidance data protection active complexes (KAZ) It varies between -6 to 20 degrees and does not cover the range of reaching is missiles «JAGM / Brimstone», capable of attacking targets in the dive mode at angles more 50 degrees. In this situation, the entire spectrum of the detection, support "to pass" and the interception of the final offensive "Brimstone" will be laid solely on the shoulders of fighting calculation means of military defense, the most effective of which are self-propelled "Tor-M2U" and promising anti-aircraft artillery systems 2S38 "Derivation-VOP".
The last stage of a deep modernization of the "equipment" "Tor-M2U" will be able to oppose the British advanced multi-purpose missile systems following "trumps". At first, advanced to 8 to 16 surface-to-air missile fire unit, that significantly reduce the intensity of its "drying out" in the course of reflection battery "Thor" massive strike "Brimstone". Secondly, integration Ammunition advanced missiles interceptors 9M338K (RZV-MD), which are equipped with an inertial navigation system with a high-performance onboard computer, as well as more accurate fuze, providing a tuned initiation of the warhead at the moment of closest approach of the enemy missile intercept, which greatly increases the likelihood of damage to its critical components (guidance and control systems) even during the initial start-up.
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Characterized effective reflecting surface (EOP) about 0.05-0.1 sq. m, low speed flight (order 1,3-1,5M) and the inability to perform maneuvers flak, rocket «Brimstone / -2» will be easily detected by radar detector "Tor-M2U" at a distance of 7-10 km, and "captured" PFAR centimetric radar guidance (with the possibility of immediate firing missiles RZV-MD) at a distance of 6-9 km.
Meanwhile, the use of a weapon control system ZRSK "Thor M2U" radio command guidance system limits the target channel complexes by means of four simultaneously intercepted air attack, which is fraught with breakthrough "missile" umbrella in case of massive use of "Brimstone", especially during a hypothetical confrontation in complex terrain, where promising British missiles can "sneak up" to hide behind the "Tomari" units at a distance of 4-5 km. Taking into account the 1-mile "dead zone" at the disposal of the combat calculations ZRSK "Tor M2U" a 3-second "window" will remain (taking into account the reaction time of the fire control system) to intercept the "swarm" of suddenly running "the Brimstone" missiles, which will be insufficient to fully reflect the attack even battery powers complexes "Tor M2U".
To remedy the situation in this case can only be a comprehensive modernization program 9M338K missiles, consisting in equipping their active radar seeker (similar to the British SAM CAMM- / ER complexes «Land Ceptor»), that completely eliminate the dependence on continuous illumination 4-channel radar guidance and will dramatically increase the number of simultaneously engaged targets with 4 to 8 and more. As for the "processing" objectives, break into "dead zone" "Thor-M2U", then with this task perfectly cope promising 57-mm anti-aircraft artillery systems "Derivation-VOP", guided artillery projectiles which can begin to intercept a wide range of small-sized aerial objects almost immediately after coming out of the channel of the gun barrel AU-220M, providing a complex of "dead zone" of several hundred meters.
Eugene Damantsev
