True, but concept of BMPT is not, so its further development is now connected with Armata. We will see, what they will develop from BMPT.
Agreed, the idea of a vehicle that can give close in support of heavy armour in terrain or environments where their long range vision and long range heavy firepower is no longer of use translates to a lot of other situations... think of a sniper with a heavy calibre bolt action rifle... very well armed, very well trained, but if he has to cut through a forest where visibility is perhaps 30m then he is incredibly vulnerable to even a small group of enemy soldiers armed with SMGs. A tank has heavy armour and a sniper has stealth training... the concept of the BMPT is to add a spotter with an assault rifle to the sniper team... not so they can go around fighting enemy units, but to cover the escape of the sniper in dangerous (to the sniper) situations, and also to find targets for the sniper in good situations.
Of course my comments about the firepower options of the armata BMPT based on models shown rather than actual vehicles would be akin to taking away the bolt action heavy rifle and giving both men a semi auto DMR rifle like an SVDS and perhaps adding a Vityaz SMG to their weapon load to increase their potential weapon load... especially with a 20 round mags for the SVDS... or perhaps a change in calibre to a high velocity 6 x 49mm round optimised for the 1,000-1,200m range.
It's true, that BMPT is there to replace infantry, but not in every environment. In open battlefield tanks will drive fast, so infantry could not follow them, but to have them inside weaker IFVs doesn't have sense. So instead of IFVs, BMPTs could do their role and are better protected without infantry inside. In mountains regions and in urban battlefield, BMPTs will work with infantry instead of tanks, because they have the same armor, but higher elevation of their main armament with higher rate of fire.
Yes... I agree... the BMPT concept is interesting in that while designed to replace infantry to protect tanks (BMPT means tank support combat vehicle), that in many situations it could equally replace tanks and support infantry operations.
In many ways that is what the BMP-3 is, though it doesn't have the armour of a tank, it certainly has the variety of armament to support infantry in a much wider range of situations than a tank could.
I wouldn't consider a poster to be a guarantee it can effective stop top-attack ATGMS, but I'm not saying it can't do it either.
The formulation of the poster would be based on the features of the product... it might not stop it every time, but then as I have mentioned on this forum several times the Javelin requires a heat signature to aim at to allow fire and forget performance... SHTORA is an EO system that defeats some types of guided weapons by dazzling the IR component of their guidance systems.
For example Milan is a wire guided missile. When fired the missile trails a wire along which command signals can be sent to guide the missile, so initially the missile is lofted into the foreground in front of the launcher. The launcher has an optical port for a sensor called a gionometer that is basically an infrared camera that detects the small flare on the tail of the missile. The guidance system uses the position of that flare to work out where the missile is in its field of view. based on the position of the flare in relation to the centre of the crosshairs of the aiming system the guidance system can work out the flight commands needed to move the missile onto the target. If the target is stationary it can more the missile in flight till it flys down the crosshairs to hit the target.
The thing is that to guide the missile the launcher needs to know where the missile is and it knows this via the IR flare on the tail of the missile.
If the target detects the launch or the IR signature of the incoming missile and automatically turns the turret to face the incoming threat and the two main IR light light up the problem for the Milan launcher is that it is now like a man with binoculars trying to see stars in the middle of the day next to the sun. The Milan post will lose sight of its missile and it will likely hit the ground.
Milan is a fairly slow missile because it is dragging a wire... Javelin is a very slow missile also and whether homing on its own using a thermal sight or being manually guided (ie like Milan) it is still vulnerable to IR dazzlers and indeed smoke... which is not to say they aren't capable and dangerous weapons.
Most weapons are not as good or as bad as their friendly or competitor marketing will suggest...
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