According to experts, the outgoing year turned out to be quite rich in innovations in the sphere of the defense-industrial complex (MIC) of Russia.
Domestic enterprises presented a number of interesting samples of military equipment.
"We have analyzed world trends"
Most of the new products were demonstrated at the Army-2020 International Military-Technical Forum.
In particular, the exhibition showed a full-size mock-up of the Grom heavy jet reconnaissance and strike UAV developed by the Kronstadt group (St. Petersburg).
The unmanned complex is intended for use in a single link with VKS aircraft.
According to the developer, his brainchild will facilitate the task of opening and destroying enemy military and object air defense systems.
Due to its sufficiently high speed and stealth, "Thunder" can be operated in the first attacking echelon.
“We analyzed world trends and the situation in our country and came to the conclusion that there is a niche for such an apparatus in our troops.
The groundwork that we created during the development work on Orion allows us to implement the Thunder project, - Vladimir Voronov, director of the Center for Advanced Research of the Kronshtadt Group, said earlier in an interview with RT.
The company's materials say that the drone will be able to climb to an altitude of 12 km and reach speeds of up to 1,000 km / h.
The developer estimates the radius of the Thunder's combat use at 700 km.
The length of the UAV should be 13.8 m, height - 3.8 m, wingspan - 10 m, take-off weight - 7 tons, payload - 2 tons.
The unmanned complex is planned to be adapted for the use of bombs weighing 100, 250 and 500 kg, as well as guided munitions.
For their installation on the device, there will be four suspension points: two under the wing consoles and two under the fuselage.
Arsenal "Thunder" will allow to destroy surface and ground targets located in tactical and operational-tactical depth.
UAV weapons will be guided using laser, television and satellite systems.
In addition to "Thunder", the newest examples of military equipment became the debutant of the "Army-2020" forum.
Military Industrial Company LLC (VPK) presented a light armored vehicle “Strela” in the version of a command vehicle and an amphibious vehicle at an open exposition.
Armored car "Strela" at the forum "Army-2020"
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The advantage of the novelty is its low price in comparison with its closest relatives - the Tiger family.
At the same time, "Strela" has a fairly high level of ballistic protection - the car can withstand a shot with an armor-piercing incendiary cartridge from a distance of 30 m.
Also "Strela" saves the life of the crew after the explosion of a land mine with a capacity of up to 2 kg in TNT equivalent under the wheel or bottom.
The car can accommodate up to eight people.
“The closest analogue of Strela is the Tiger line of cars.
But the vehicle presented at the forum is much lighter - it is 4.7 tons versus 8 tons for the "Tiger".
At the same time, its design uses A3 steel with a thickness of 6.5 mm, which provides good bullet protection, "said the general director of the military-industrial complex Alexander Krasovitsky in an interview with RT in the fields of Army-2020.
The small mass allows the Arrow to accelerate faster than the Tiger.
On the highway, the car can accelerate to 130-140 km / h.
The military, who have already driven the armored car, praised it for its smooth ride.
Another bold experiment of the military-industrial complex is the "Tiger" in the buggy version, which has become widespread among the troops.
By dismantling the heavy armored doors, the designers were able to significantly reduce the weight of the vehicle and convert it into a payload.
Any combat module can be installed on the vehicle.
In addition, a buggy is a more maneuverable and manageable vehicle.
According to Krasovitsky, such an armored car will be in great demand in Russia and in foreign countries.
In December, the RF Ministry of Defense ordered the military-industrial complex to develop four modifications of the Strela.
These samples will undergo preliminary tests next year.
"Destruction of any western tank"
Of the newest missile weapons presented in the outgoing year, experts interviewed by RT identified a 207-mm high-precision Hermes complex with an over-the-horizon firing range of up to 100 km.
The sample was developed by the Tula Instrument Design Bureau (KBP) named after.
Academician A.G.
Shipunova (part of Rostec).
"Hermes" occupies a niche between guided artillery shells and operational-tactical systems.
The rocket of the Hermes complex has an autonomous targeting system based on the “fire and forget” principle.
The complex implements a salvo fire mode at several (up to six) spaced targets, as well as automatic synchronization of laser target designation for hitting targets with high-precision ammunition with a miss of no more than 0.5 m, "Rostec reports.
Launcher complex "Hermes"
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The peculiarity of "Hermes" is that it can be mounted on a variety of platforms - land vehicles, small warships and drones.
As the representative of the KBP them.
Shipunov, the complex will destroy any western tank with an almost 100% guarantee.
According to him, the speed of the ammunition of this system exceeds Mach 4.
"Based on the results of the full cycle of tests of the Hermes at the range with the destruction of various types of targets, it was concluded that a single missile of the complex is enough to guarantee the destruction of any existing western tank," the KBP representative emphasized.
According to Izvestia's sources, on the basis of technical solutions for the Hermes, the Russian defense industry began developing new missiles.
The project was named "Klevok-D2".
One of the promising ammunition will be equipped with a ramjet engine (ramjet), which accelerates it to almost hypersonic speed.
According to the newspaper, such a missile will surpass analogues in range and will be invulnerable to air defense systems.
The launch mass of the ammunition in the transport-launch container will not exceed 150 kg, the weight of the warhead will be 57 kg.
Fire can be carried out from ground and air platforms.
The power of the warhead should be enough to destroy armored vehicles, artillery systems, headquarters, command posts and engineering structures.
Experts believe that the Hermes will be included in the arsenal of motorized rifle and tank units of the RF Armed Forces.
Thus, Russian units will be able to conduct larger-scale operations in the theater of operations (theater of operations).
“Such compact high-precision tactical complexes will greatly facilitate the solution of tasks to defeat an enemy grouping before it has time to take hostile actions.
In our army, this will be a very important intermediate link between cannon artillery, MLRS and long-range operational-tactical systems, "military expert Yuri Knutov said in a conversation with RT.
In addition to means of fire destruction, the defense sector of the Russian Federation continues to improve the electronic stuffing of various types of weapons.
In October, employees of the military innovative technopolis "Era" (Anapa), together with the Department of Information Systems of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, developed a software and hardware complex (PAK) for research and development of artificial intelligence technologies.
The use of this equipment will make a significant contribution to the automation of reconnaissance and strike systems of the Russian army.
The bottom line is that the PAK is able to identify targets, track the movement of enemy troops, including when they use various camouflage methods.
Image of objects transmitted from the UAV
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The neural network of this unique complex works with information in a data bank that contains 100 thousand images of military equipment in the optical range and 5 thousand targets in the radar range.
Era experts estimate the detection accuracy of enemy targets at 95%.
“The complex can be installed on a drone of an army reconnaissance unit.
Thanks to our product, the UAV is able to identify and classify the observed enemy objects, "Major Evgeny Nazarov, deputy head of the research department (prospecting and predictive research) of Era, told RT earlier in the comments to the RT channel.
In an interview with RT, Dmitry Litovkin, editor of the Nezavisimoye Voennoye Obozreniye newspaper, said that the outgoing year was remembered for the development of areas related primarily to unmanned vehicles, missile weapons and army vehicles.
“The main achievement of Russia in the field of the defense industry in 2020, in my opinion, is the development of the first strike UAVs.
Generally speaking, the novelties that we have seen indicate that Russia has a technological base that will further contribute to the creation of new, modern products for performing a variety of tasks, ”concluded Litovkin.