FLAME GUNNERS VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: armored equipment, in particular, armored vehicles for flame gunners. SUBSTANCE: use is made of the tank base chassis without reconstruction of the hull except the roof and the fighting compartment. Installed in the area of the fighting compartment and the control compartment is a box-type armored superstructure, whose walls jointly with the body of the control compartment make an inhabited compartment with the seats for the crew and seats for the team of the flame gunners (7 men). Three racks with a quickly detachable fastening for the ammunition stowage are mounted. The front wall of the superstructure has an armored protection at the level of the tank armored protection, and the side walls are made in the form of protection of the base chassis body boards, the side walls are extended from the partition of the engine-transmission compartment to the vehicle back and provided with internal sections for the vehicle standard equipment. EFFECT: enhanced protection of the inhabited compartment. 4 cl, 8 dwg