Mindstorm wrote:Austin wrote:via Russian Embassy in India
Thanks Austin.
Where those images come from ?
Russian Embassy in Delhi put this and other up.
So its like Official confirmation on specs
Mindstorm wrote:Austin wrote:via Russian Embassy in India
Thanks Austin.
Where those images come from ?
Any plan to equip the boomerang with a 125mm gun ?
We see in Syria that they send only wheeled vehicles instead of tracked one. It would be easier to deploy a boomerang with a 125mm gun than a t-90. In term of operational cost it's better too. And in terms of effectivness, they face terrorists so there is no need for a t-90 or a t14. A boomerang with APS will do the job.
Isos wrote:Wonder if they add something more than a 57mm or 30mm shell. They seem very small. Could have been a little bit bigger.
Isos wrote:But the size makes the firepower of that small missile rather pathetic. I understand they want something smaller and cheaper than kornet but this small missile has an engine, fuel for engine, electronics which makes its warhead very small.
Then if the range is the same as the effective ranges of the 57mm or 30mm guns or grenade launchers then it adds nothing valuable to the vehicles carrying it.
It may be more precise but it will also be more expensive. In that case I would prefere a gun with 100 rounds and a gun FCS than 5 small missiles.
For the shaped charge variant, I would guess it will be good only against unarmoured vehicles and even against them you will need to hit precise part to destroy it because the warehead is small. Against armoured vehicle I doubt it would go through modern armors even in the sides.
The theromobaric will not be effective. 57mm is very small.
IMO it's for operation like in Syria where precision matters but no need to destroy tank, only vivilian vehicles.
Isos wrote:Ypu must be right. They wouldn't have put it in service if it wasn't providing something more over the canon and the kornet.
What are those small missiles they added on top?
Wonder if they add something more than a 57mm or 30mm shell. They seem very small. Could have been a little bit bigger.
The grenade round has likely gotten it's parent shell case from the AA round, but it's unlikely to be telescopic like a velocity round, but instead like a typical grenade round the case is uniformly cylindrical with minimized space for propellant and maximized space for warhead.
But the size makes the firepower of that small missile rather pathetic. I understand they want something smaller and cheaper than kornet but this small missile has an engine, fuel for engine, electronics which makes its warhead very small.
Then if the range is the same as the effective ranges of the 57mm or 30mm guns or grenade launchers then it adds nothing valuable to the vehicles carrying it.
It may be more precise but it will also be more expensive. In that case I would prefere a gun with 100 rounds and a gun FCS than 5 small missiles.
For the shaped charge variant, I would guess it will be good only against unarmoured vehicles and even against them you will need to hit precise part to destroy it because the warehead is small. Against armoured vehicle I doubt it would go through modern armors even in the sides.
The theromobaric will not be effective. 57mm is very small.
IMO it's for operation like in Syria where precision matters but no need to destroy tank, only vivilian vehicles.
The original Metis had a 93mm warhead and had 2km range with 1970's technology, and we saw the vehicle version of Kornet double in range (probably benefiting from heavier and denser propellant), so with modern technology and being vehicle based, a 93mm Bulat could have 4-5km range which is plenty.
Ypu must be right. They wouldn't have put it in service if it wasn't providing something more over the canon and the kornet.
Bulats could be designed where their HE-Frag warheads are programmed before flight to shift their explosion pattern into one direction to effectively quadruple their performance, or they could be designed with 1/4th the size warhead with significantly greater propellant for a greater max range.
ahmedfire wrote:Is the Armata chassis is ready for mass production ?
Because i see a lot of projects are designed to use that chassis including kurganets-25 .
I'm wondering if the Armata tank delayed for some years , that could affect using it's chassis for the other projects .
magnumcromagnon wrote:ahmedfire wrote:Is the Armata chassis is ready for mass production ?
Because i see a lot of projects are designed to use that chassis including kurganets-25 .
I'm wondering if the Armata tank delayed for some years , that could affect using it's chassis for the other projects .
Kurganets has a smaller different chassis for a lower weight class, for the most part unrelated (with exceptions) to the Armata chassis.
Kurganets has a smaller different chassis for a lower weight class, for the most part unrelated (with exceptions) to the Armata chassis.
All sources said it's based on Armata chassis .Kurganets belongs not to the Armata family.
Unfortunately many in the west see the Armata as the tank and the Kurganets as the BMP and the Boomerang as the BTR, while the Typhoon is the BRDM... but they are not individual vehicle types... if the Kurganets really is the BMP then what is the T-15 (the T-15 is the IFV version of the Armata chassis if you don't know).