INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OF ARMORED TRACK VEHICLES Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: armored equipment, in particular, making up fighting track vehicles.

SUBSTANCE: all armored track vehicles of the system are made with employment of a single basic tank track chassis with standardized running gear, engine-transmission mounting, means of observation, communication and navigation, and an armored hull provided with an up-to-date level of passive and dynamic protection, with a resistance to tandem shaped-charge ammunition and armor-piercing subcaliber 120-mm shell. Used As the basic track vehicle is a tank armed with a tank gun, caliber 120 to 125 mm, with a six-supporting chassis or seven-supporting chassis, automatic loading equipment and a system of active protection brought out behind the tower. The system has a heavy armored personnel carrier with a machine gun or mortar armament and tank-borne troops of 7 to 10 men used as an armored vehicle of fire support of tanks and an armored vehicle of support of tanks with an automatic gun, caliber 30 to 57 mm. The system has a transport tank loading vehicle with a machine gun armament used as system maintenance vehicles.

EFFECT: enhanced survival rate and mobility of the independent system of armored track vehicles.

12 cl, 18 dwg