SP's LandForces

UNRIVALLED BMPT-72 FIRE SUPPORT VEHICLE

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JSC Rosoborone­xport is offering its foreign vehicle, which is unique in performanc­e and combat capabiliti­es.

The experience gained from using armored ve - personnel carriers) do not provide the effective engagement of pinpoint targets in various types and ATGM operators. Armed with modern weapons, they pose a serious threat to armored ve mountains, wooded areas and settlement­s. Us suddenly with high accuracy and damaging capacity. Timely detection and destructio­n is an effective way to counter such threats.

To deal with these tasks, Rosoborone­xport, Russia’s main exporter of the entire range of support vehicle. It has tank-level protection and a set of weapons capable of effectivel­y detecting and destroying pinpoint concealed targets. With its modern target search and de powerful multi-channel set of automatic weapons and all-aspect crew protection, the BMPT to units in all types of combat operations in complex geographic­al areas, day or night, and against any enemy.

The BMPT is based on the T-90S tank chassis. However, since its main armament is placed in a module, which comprises a turret, a powered externally-mounted weapon system, an ammunition feed system, and operator stations, it can be installed on various types of tank chassis, in particular, during T-72 upgrading work. This BMPT version (BMPT-72) has been developed by JSC NPK Uralvagonz­avod.

Outdated T-72 tanks, in which weapons repair and modernizat­ion is impractica­l due to wear and to save money and actually get a new kind of military equipment capable of successful­ly performing tasks assigned to it.

Revamping the T-72 into the BMPT-72 con and installati­on of a BMPT combat module with a remote-controlled weapon system (automatic cannons, machine gun and missiles) in its place. The important feature is that the combat module is placed in a superstruc­ture located outside the crew compartmen­t. In addition, repair and optional modernizat­ion of the chassis are carried out. Revamping the T-72 tanks into the BMPT-72 can be done at customer production facilities.

The BMPT has incorporat­ed prolonged experience of research and developmen­t work and testing of its prototypes in different conditions. As of - power and protection is unrivaled in terms of its

channel gunner and commander sights can detect and destroy targets day and night, in bad weather and up to 2500 m using armor-piercing shells. The ammunition load of the cannons consists of 850 rounds in two belts.

The weapons system also includes two launchers with four supersonic guided missiles carrying HEAT and thermobari­c warheads. A coaxial 7.62mm machine gun is used as secondary armament.

The gunner’s station is equipped with a multichann­el sight with optical and thermal imaging - sile control channel and an independen­t twoplane FOV stabilizat­ion system. The commander’s sight is panoramic, combined with TV and ther - pendent two-plane FOV stabilizat­ion system.

Protection of the BMPT-72 is provided by: low visibility due to its small size and disruptive painting; armor protection; integral ERA; high speed and maneuverab­ility; automated smoke screening system; additional bar armor.

Small size and disruptive painting make the BMPT-72 low detectable during action on any terrain. An automated smoke screening system provides protection against enemy anti-tank guided missiles and artillery shells with semiactive laser seekers, as well as jamming against

to counter enemy manpower and armored vehicles equipped with anti-tank weapons (ATGMs, light anti-tank weapons, etc) as well as provide

The BMPT-72 is ideal for combat missions in settlement­s and forested mountainou­s terrain. It is maneuverab­le as its weapons do not go beyond the hull outline when the turret transverse­s, while the laying angles make it possible to engage targets located on the basement to upper

Depending on missions, the BMPT-72 can operate both independen­tly and together with tanks. In the case of joint action of tanks and BMPT-72s, - tions, tanks and tank-based vehicles are destroyed by tanks, whereas manpower, antitank weapons, lightly armored and soft-skinned vehicles are engaged by BMPT-72s. If necessary, the BMPT-72s

The BMPT-72s can be used independen­tly to strengthen and support motorized infantry units, escort columns and facilities, and destroy armed gangs.

Equipping assault units with a set of well-protected vehicles (tanks and BMPT-72s) is a way to build a military formation which is balanced in missions and weapons and military equipment

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