active protection system “Arena-M”, planned for installation on Russian T-72 and T-90 tanks, capable of providing all-round protection against almost the entire range of anti-tank guided missiles, including “Adhesions” and “Javelin”. This was told in the Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering (KBM).
On the TV channel “star” the fourth documentary in the series “Weapons of the invincible”. In this series, an interview was shown with the head of the department for development and advanced design of the Kolomna KBM Vladimir Kharkin, who spoke about KAZ “Arena-M”.
As the expert explained, “Arena-M” provides all-round tank protection, including the top, from almost the entire range of homing ammunition, including the most modern type of Israeli “Solder” and American “Javelina”.
Ammunition is fired, and depending on which direction the target flies, it turns in that direction. There are special impulse correction engines, that allow you to develop (ammunition to the target) in the minimum time. One ammunition covers the protection sector in 5 times more, this allowed for full all-round protection and expanded the protection sector from above
– said Kharkin.
The system is installed in a compartment on the outside, bulletproof turret and runs automatically, providing a two-fold protection in each attack direction. The system carries out radar tracking and defeat flying targets. The principle of operation of the complex is to defeat TCP heavy fragments directed at undermining the flow of the projectile to fire back at the approach to the tank at a range of 20 up to 50m. The system provides protection sectors in azimuth to 360 sector and elevation of minus 6 to 20 degrees.
note, that KAZ “Arena-M” been tested for a long time, including military. Tanks T-72B3 and T-90M with installed KAZ “Arena-M” were seen in training “West-2021”. Besides, in preparation for the exercises, the T-80UM2 tank was spotted with an active protection complex “Blackbird-2” from the 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division.
In January 2017 , the general designer of the corporation “Machine-Building Design Bureau” (KBM, Kolomna) Valery Kashin said, The new active protection system (KAZ) “Arena-M” It will be installed on tanks T-72 and T-90, and that he is being tested under the personal supervision of the Commander of the Land Forces, Colonel-General Oleg Salyukova. AT 2018 It was reported, that Uralvagonzavod has purchased items KAZ “Arena-M” to be installed on the T-72B3 in the framework of development work “Perfection-A”.
