fighting module “Hunter” received a new machine gun for armored vehicles, replacement of weapons was carried out on an initiative basis. As the press-service “Uralvagonzavod”, tests of the module with new weapons were completed successfully.
according to the report, BM (combat module) “Hunter” equipped with a new version of the 6P49 machine gun “knife”. The new version of the machine gun was created on “plant them. Degtyareva” (Wall) and in November 2020 year received the letter O1 (start of serial production). Details about the new weapon are not provided in the message..
New machine gun, created by JSC “Degtyarev plant” allows to significantly improve the characteristics of the combat module, increasing the competitiveness of our product and placing it on a par with world leaders. The module was improved by the enterprise on its own initiative
– quotes TASS with the words of the Deputy Chief Designer for NPO Management Systems “electric machine” Sergey Abramov.
Soon NGO “electric machine”, producing BM “Hunter”, will start supplying modules with a new machine gun. specified, that this BM will also be supplied to the fleet for arming boats and small ships. AT “nautical” version of the module was named “Narwhal”.
AT 2019 combat module “Hunter” was adopted as part of an armored car “Typhoon-in”. BM is armed with a 12.7-millimeter machine gun “knife”, stabilized in two planes, allowing to hit targets in the movement at long range. The speed of rotation of arms 40 degrees per second, in module includes ammunition 250 rounds. The sight has two channels – television, allowing to detect a target at a distance of up to five thousand meters, and thermal imaging, halved at detection range – to 2,5 km. Fixed laser rangefinder measures the distance to 10 km. Temperature module operating range from -60 to +50 FROM.
module development was carried out on NGOs “electric machine” (Chelyabinsk), member of the corporation Uralvagonzavod.
According to the developers, the original design of the module allows it to be installed on any land and sea equipment, in particular, on armored class “Tiger”,”Typhoon”, BTR, as well as any tracked vehicles on the basis of infantry fighting vehicles, MT-LB, BMD etc. Can be used in fixed installations.
