2S25 Sprut-SD

George1 wrote:Airborne Troops in 2016 can get an upgraded gun "Sprut-SD"

This is possible as tests of new Sprut-SDM could be done quite quickly. BMD-4M vehicle, which is a base of new Sprut is alredy tested, Sprut-SD is already in armament, so the concept and the gun is tested, all they need to test is new FCS and its integration with the gun and the vehicle.

2S25M (Sprut-SDM1)

Upgraded self-propelled gun "Octopus" for Airborne will go into production in 2018

According to the results of state testing in 2017 samples should be adopted for

MOSCOW, February 10. / TASS /. Serial production of the modernized self-propelled anti-tank gun "Sprut-SDM-1" for the Airborne Troops will begin in 2018, said Wednesday the deputy head of the Department of TASS military equipment concern "Tractor Plants" Mikhail Chemezov.

"In 2016 it is planned to conduct preliminary and state tests According to the results of state testing in 2017 samples should be adopted for, and in Volgograd prepared its serial production We expect that the full-scale production will begin in 2018..", - Said the source.

Earlier, the commander of the Airborne Troops Vladimir Shamanov said that the military plans to receive in 2016 the first six samples of the modernized combat vehicle.

The base model - "Sprut-SD" - is a self-propelled anti-tank gun caliber 125 mm, which can be landed by aircraft. It is intended for use in the airborne units, marines and special purpose. This war machine have adopted in the mid-2000s.

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"The full-rate production of the upgraded Sprut-SDM1 self-propelled antitank (SPAT) gun for the Russian Airborne Force will start in 2018, Mikhail Chemeza, deputy chief of military hardware department, Tractor Plants, told TASS on Wednesday February 10th. "Its factory and official tests are slated for 2016. Based on the outcome, the weapon is to enter service and be productionized in [the Russian city of] Volgograd. We expect its series production to commence in 2018," Chemeza said. The commander of the Russian paratroops, Vladimir Shamanov, had said previously that the military planned to receive its first six examples of the upgraded combat vehicle in 2016.



The Sprut-SDM1 SPAT gun features the 2A75M gun, which characteristics match those of the 2A46M2 tank gun. The Sprut fires all of the rounds designed for the T-72 and T-90 main battle tanks. Its ammunition load comprises 40 rounds, of which 22 are in the mechanized round rack and 18 in extra stowage. The organic ammunition load includes 20 blast-fragmentation and 14 armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot rounds and six antitank guided missiles that can be replaced with six high-explosive antitank rounds. The weapons suite includes the PKTM coaxial machinegun. The SPAT gun can be equipped with remote-controlled fighting module housing another PKTM on the roof of its fighting compartment. The Sprut-SDM1 also mounts six 902V Tucha smoke dischargers. The gunner’s combat station is provided with the Sosna-U primary and PDT backup sights."

Abit more on it

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Pskov, on 15 June. / TASS /. Division of the Airborne Forces in the Pskov region tested the latest self-propelled anti-tank gun "Sprut-SDM-1", using as spotters fire drones. On Wednesday the press service of the Defense Ministry. Earlier it was reported that the mass production of this weapon is scheduled to begin in 2018 .

"During the demonstration features the latest anti-tank gun" Sprut-SDM-1 "units Artillery Airborne corrected fire artillery and anti-tank weapons, using information from the unmanned aerial vehicles such as" eagle "and the latest radar complexes" Aistenok "and" Sobolyatnik "- said in the press service.
He noted that this modification of the self-propelled guns to replace the gun "Sprut-2S25" standing on the service in the Airborne Forces for more than ten years. Marines Classes are held at the site Struga Red in the Pskov region in the course of collection management staff Airborne artillery.

Airborne in 2016 are planning to get about 250 units of equipment.

franco wrote:Pskov, on 15 June. / TASS /. Division of the Airborne Forces in the Pskov region tested the latest self-propelled anti-tank gun "Sprut-SDM-1", using as spotters fire drones. On Wednesday the press service of the Defense Ministry. Earlier it was reported that the mass production of this weapon is scheduled to begin in 2018 .

"During the demonstration features the latest anti-tank gun" Sprut-SDM-1 "units Artillery Airborne corrected fire artillery and anti-tank weapons, using information from the unmanned aerial vehicles such as" eagle "and the latest radar complexes" Aistenok "and" Sobolyatnik "- said in the press service.
He noted that this modification of the self-propelled guns to replace the gun "Sprut-2S25" standing on the service in the Airborne Forces for more than ten years. Marines Classes are held at the site Struga Red in the Pskov region in the course of collection management staff Airborne artillery.

Airborne in 2016 are planning to get about 250 units of equipment.

They stuffed the Aistenyok in there? What the ....? I hope it's on a different vehicle and the datalink does the rest;

In Pskov began to experience a self-propelled gun "Sprut-SDM-1"

MOSCOW, June 25 -. RIA Novosti In the Pskov region on the range Struga Red began testing self-propelled anti-tank gun "Sprut-SDM-1 ', told the commander of the Airborne Troops Vladimir Shamanov.

Shamans: base armor Airborne amount of BMD-4M and self-propelled guns "Octopus"
According to him, in the coming months in the course of testing artillery units of the 76th Air Assault Division and the experts of the third Russian Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defence must confirm the performance characteristics of the gun.

Shamanov said that the test results will be transferred to a special committee for the state examination and evaluation.

Earlier, the commander of the Airborne Troops said that the Airborne Troops will receive the first batch of upgraded guns "Octopus-SDM-1", consisting of six cars in 2017. In mid-June it was reported that paratroopers Airborne spent the shooting of this gun at firing range Struga Red.

Self-propelled anti-tank gun "Sprut-SDM-1" should come to replace the former modification 2S25, which is in service in the Airborne Forces for more than ten years.

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Taking into account that the new Sprut-SDM-1 developed from the BMD-4M is a totally different design than the previous 2S25, surely needs a new designation. 2S36? 2S37? The 2S36 designation begins to be used for the Zauralets-D model of 120mm developed also from the BMD-4M platform.

If not, both will be mixed, and are very different weapons.

Interesting to see some specifications of the 2S25 SDM-1:

http://www.military-today.com/tanks/sprut_sdm1.htm

Waiting for the final name of this interesting weapon.

Crossing the river of camouflaged Sprut-SD of 104th Guards airborne assault regiment of the Airborne Forces during the raffle of an episode of clearing the area of the conditional illegal armed formations near Pskov.

Good cam job. If there was no diesel smoke they would look like little islands.

franco wrote:Good cam job. If there was no diesel smoke they would look like little islands.

This however is very bad idea in "real war" situations and is very rarely if ever done, as this kind of camoflage will most likely end up due to vibration and movement on top of your optronics so you will sometimes blind yourself, branches also dry very fast so after 2-3h you will look like moving hay stack. So it mostly just looks nice for drills.

However its more than common in peacetime as it looks cool and useful, even i spent quite a while cutting down fkn branches...

Upgraded "tank fighter" can be adopted by the Airborne Forces in 2019

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Moscow. January 20th. INTERFAX-AVN - The modernized "tank fighter" for the Russian airborne troops - the self-propelled anti-tank cannon "Sprut-SDM-1" - is preparing for the stage of state tests, an informed interlocutor of Interfax reported on Saturday.

"State tests of the modernized" Sprut "should begin in the first quarter of 2018 and end in the first quarter of 2019," he said.
According to the source, preliminary tests of the combat vehicle were completed at the end of last year. "In general, everything is positive," the source said.
"Sprut-SDM-1" will replace the self-propelled gun of the previous modification - "Sprut-SD". Experts believe that the "Sprut-SDM-1" has no foreign analogues in terms of characteristics.
According to the firepower "Sprut-SDM-1" corresponds to the level of the main Russian tank T-90.
"Now is the stage of preparation for state tests, specification of the tactical and technical task." With positive passing of state tests, a decision will be made to produce a pilot lot, "Interfax interlocutor said.
He said that during the state tests, the modernized "Sprut" will undergo running and firing tests on the ground and on the water.
"The aircraft will be dropped from an Il-76 type aircraft, a test by military aircraft transporting planes," the source said.
"In general, the machine is satisfied with everything, first of all, in the Airborne Forces." Plant workers are maximally tuned to eliminate all remaining remarks. "There are small nuances, they will be worked on during the state tests," the source said.
In the concern "Tractor Plants" (KTZ, passes to Rostek) earlier Interfax was told that the modernized Sprut, developed for the Airborne Forces, may also be of interest to the Marines and the Russian Land Force.
The main armament is a 125-mm 2A75M cannon of high ballistics, capable of firing with armor-piercing, cumulative, high-explosive projectiles, as well as guided missiles. In the long term, remote detonation will be provided on the trajectory of high-explosive shells.

Positive news.

I would expect to see the same weapon on the Bumerang and Kurganets platform. Then the Marines and the Ground Forces only have to wait a little more.

Russia’s new self-propelled anti-tank gun to begin state trials in October — source

Russia’s state corporation Rostec did not comment on the timeframe

MOSCOW, July 13. /TASS/. State trials of Russia’s amphibious self-propelled tank destroyer, Sprut-SDM1, are to begin in October, a defense industry source has told TASS.

"State trials of Sprut-SDM1 are to begin in the fourth quarter of 2018," the source said.

Russia’s state corporation Rostec did not comment on the timeframe, saying only that "trial models of Sprut-SDM1 are ready for testing, the customer is still interested in the project."

The Sprut-SDM1 self-propelled anti-tank gun (SPATG) has been developed by the Volgograd Tractor Plant (VTZ, a subsidiary of the Tractor Plants concern). The vehicle was presented at the Army-2015 international military-technical forum held in June 2015 in Kubinka outside Moscow. According to the official information issued by the manufacturer, the Sprut-SDM1 is a tracked amphibious armored vehicle that can be airdropped with its crew inside. The SPATG has a full combat weight of 18 tonnes, and its crew totals three (a commander, a gunner and a driver). The vehicle is powered by a UTD-29 diesel multifuel engine with a power output of 500 hp that produces a speed of up to 70 km/h on road and up to 7 km/h in water. The Sprut-SDM1`s armament suite incorporates a 2A75 125 mm smoothbore main gun, a coaxial PKTM 7.62 mm medium machinegun and a PKTM machinegun integrated with a roof-mounted remotely controlled weapon station. The 2A75 is coupled to an autoloader that drastically increases its firing rate. The gun can fire anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM). The self-propelled gun is also fitted with six Tucha-type smoke dischargers mounted on the turret. The SPATG is based on the chassis of the newest BMD-4M airborne infantry fighting vehicle (AIFV).

The gunner`s seat is fitted with a PNM Sosna-U sighting system combined day-night sight with independent field-of-view (FOV) stabilization, an integrated rangefinder, a calculator and ATGM laser guidance channel. The Sosna-U has been complemented by a PDT optoelectronic backup sight with stabilizer and an autonomous power source. The commander of the SPATG has received a PKP combined day-night panoramic sighting system with independent FOV stabilization, an integrated rangefinder and a calculator.

The Sprut-SDM1`s firepower is almost equal to that of the T-90MS main battle tank (MBT), owing to the integration of a modern fire control system. The SPATG and the MBT fire the same munition range, the manufacturer of the self-propelled gun says. The Sprut-SDM1 is a reliable vehicle that can be operated in mountainous terrains and hot climate. The vehicle also features high power-to-weight ratio.


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Sprut-SD in Vostok-2018 exercise

Airborne will begin to receive guns "Sprut-SDM1" in 2020

VOLGOGRAD, October 19 - RIA News. Russia's airborne troops will begin to get the newest self-propelled antitank cannon, the Sprut-SDM1, commander Andrei Serdyukov told the press on Friday.

"We are waiting for this car. State tests will begin in December. They will pass within the next year. We plan that the car will start to enter the troops in 2020," said Serdyukov.

Serdyukov said that in accordance with the state program of armament of the Airborne Forces will receive a divisional kit "Sprut".


РИА Новости https://ria.ru/defense_safety/20181019/1531045791.html

Good news

Production of Sprut-SDM1 at the Volgograd Tractor Plant

The plant management presented Andrei Serdyukov a new product: an improved model of the Sprut SDM-1 machine. Such have been released only 3 units. This is the only easy-to-class floating combat vehicle with tank firepower. The Octopus can parachute, conduct combat operations day and night, overcome obstacles where no other similar vehicle can pass.

State tests will begin in December. They will be completed within the next year, and we plan that from 2020 the machine will start to enter the troops, - said Andrei Serdyukov.

Prototypes of tank destroyers "Sprut-SDM1" ready for state tests

Rostec added that tests are scheduled for 2019

MOSCOW, January 7. / TASS /. State Corporation Rostec has prepared several prototypes of the Sprut-SDM1 tank destroyers for state tests, which the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation will conduct in 2019. This was reported on Monday Tass in the state corporation.

As noted in Rostec, the further fate of the combat vehicle will depend on the results of state tests. "The prototypes of the 125 mm self-propelled antitank gun 2S25M Sprut-SDM1, developed by the Volgograd machine-building company, are ready for their passage," the state corporation said.

At Rostec, it was clarified that now "an appropriate program is being prepared in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, tests are scheduled for 2019."

Earlier, the commander of the Airborne Forces, in whose interests the combat vehicle was developed, Andrei Serdyukov said that the Sprut-SDM1 state tests would begin in December 2018.

The contract for the development of the modernized antitank cannon Sprut-SDM1 was concluded in 2013. In 2014, the first prototype of a floating aircraft was deployed, which was shown at the Army 2015 exhibition. The car received the undercarriage, transmission and engine unified with the BMD-4M, a modern digital fire control system and a 2A75M gun with enhanced shooting accuracy.

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Russia developing new lightweight floating tank

The floating tank will be based on the Sprut-SDM1 platform


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If it does not have to be air dropped I wonder if it might be Boomerang or Kurganets based to give better protection?

Being light weight I wonder if Typhoon based is an option... probably too light...

Russian troops will be equipped with light floating "Octopus"

Self-propelled artillery mounts "Sprut-SDM1", which are not inferior in firepower to tanks, will soon enter the formations of the Russian Airborne Forces. This was reported to Izvestia on December 6 by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The military department reported on the decision taken on the purchase of "Octopus", but did not specify in what quantity and in which formations the equipment will be supplied - this issue is still being worked out. However, they noted that starting next year, the training of the commanders of the Sprut installations will begin at the 242nd training center of the Airborne Forces.

The basic version of the vehicle - "Sprut-SD" - was put into service in 2006. It was produced on the BMD-4 chassis. However, in 2010, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense abandoned the technology. The first installation was criticized for its poor design and weak armor, which only protects against bullets.

"Sprut-SDM1" is a fundamentally new technique, unified with the newest BMD-4M, noted in the RF Ministry of Defense. More powerful protection has been developed for the upgraded vehicle, which will increase its survivability on the battlefield. The product is fully integrated with a digital fire control system, which not only increased the accuracy of shooting, but also made it possible to fire at low-flying and low-speed targets, for example, helicopters and enemy unmanned aerial vehicles.
But in the current modification, the vehicle has a completely redesigned fire control system, a thermal imaging sight has been installed, due to which the fire capabilities have become the same as those of the latest tanks - in fact, the Sprut-SDM1 is a light amphibious tank

https://iz.ru/1096625/2020-12-06/rossiiskii-desant-osnastiat-legkimi-plavaiushchimi-sprutami

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