LANDING FIGHTING VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: armored equipment, mainly airborne landing- fighting vehicles. SUBSTANCE: the landing fighting vehicle is a light armored floating airborne and air-landed together with the combat crew track vehicle with a mass up to 13 tons with high survivability, reliability, mobility characteristics. The airborne fighting vehicle has a pneumatic suspension and a clearance adjustable with the aid of a hydraulic device, an automatic gun in a two-seater fighting compartment with an increased ammunition establishment and a directional rocket launcher. The system of fire control from the commander's and gun layer's stations provides for a complex commander's target indication and doubled firing from the gun and twin-barreled machine gun. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency and operating characteristics of the requirements to air transportability, air-landing and landing from the naval landing ships and overcoming of large water obstacles. 5 cl, 15 dwg