"Terminator" amazes everything around. Why do not adopt a fighting machine for the support of tanks "Terminator"? Tank Terminator on Platform T

. The "Terminator" was exactly the same named its brainchild, JSC "Uralvagonzavod Scientific and Production Corporation" creators of this weapon. Terminator-2 BMPT It is able to effectively solve problems on fire support on a single or integrated modern battlefield. As you know when conducting a battle for a tank, the main threats are infantrymen armed portable anti-tank weapons. For their destruction, the "Terminator" was created for him that the creators of this car were given. In any climatic conditions, at any time of the day, against any opponent.

BPTT-72 Tank Support Machine Terminator-2 Top Photo, on the lower first modification of the terminator

Nothing like that this moment neither created in any country in the world. What would not be powder, I will describe the most interesting momentsso to speak without excess water. If something is not clear to look attentively in the photo, who is looking for laziness in the text during the description, see the video.

pHOTOS 30 mm Automatic grenade launcher AG-17D (remote) with an increased barrel for better cooling, absent on the terminator 2, a crew reduced during its account, and allowed to increase the corners of the reservation.

Terminator-2 Combat Tank Support Machine BPMT-72 Photo

Terminator-2 BPTA combat tank support machine photo video .

• The combat machine is built on the T-72 tank chassis, which made it possible to observe almost complete unification with the T-90 tank.
• The same multi-fuel engine with a capacity of 1000 hp, a stroke of 500 km, the capacity of fuel tanks is 1100 liters.

Suo, a complex of high-precision automatic weapons. Equipped with a new digital fire management system.

In the photo 2 paired 30 mm automatic guns 2A42, and 4 attack-t missiles, there are no coursework automatic grenade launchers AGS-17 (D), which made it possible to limit the crew to 3 people

• The crew of the combat vehicle The Terminator consists of 5 people,
• moreover, in the initial embodiment, the number of crew members was 7.
• And here new modification Terminator 2 is just three, the crew reduction occurred due to the failure of 2 coursework automatic grenadeate systems. If you carefully look at the photo of the second modification, then you will not see them.
• For example, I will say that the first and second modifications are manufactured simultaneously, so the choice of the customer's privilege.

The photo presents the fourth part of the ammunition BMPT Terminator

The Russian Terminator due to its mobility, high security, fire and impact power, will not be replaced as a tank support machine during offensive and defensive actions, against the enemy's troops, highly saturated technology, in the difficult conditions of the modern field of battle when exposed to a variety of lesions.
Almost complete unification with T-90 tank. The height of the wall overcame is about 1 meter. Without difficulty forces water obstacles.

Terminator 2 Photo From this point it can be seen that the tower is desert, the ammunition installed in it is sent remotely

Terminator-2 BPTA combat tank support machine photo video .

• 30 mm Automatic grenade launcher AG-17D (remote), with an increased barrel, 600 grenades of fragmentation action.
• 30 Millimytrome gun with a replaceable shooting rate of 8 or 22 projectile (for 2 seconds shooting). Each of the two 30 mm guns shoots its type of ammunition. Anchor-fugasic or armor-piercing type of projectile. It is guaranteed to affect the easily armored types of equipment of the BTR or BMP type on the range of up to 2.5 km. Excrambled fugasic shells operate on the range of up to 4500 meters.
• Rocket armament, complex of 4 attack-t missiles, guidance occurs along a laser beam, unlike those installed on helicopters where the radio canal is used. 4 Controlled rockets are able to affect as air so terrestrial targets. The difference from the first model, the rocket complex received a protective booking, from agrowing action Shard, and bullets of small caliber.
• Paired 7.62 machine gun with a single non-rechargeable ribbon to 2000 shots.
• We look Terminator Machine Bumpt Shooting T 600 resting video

Paired 7.62 machine gun Unified Not required reloading tape for 2000 photo shots

All weapons are controlled remotely. The remote submission of ammunition was carried out, which is interesting, the ammunition is below the tower epanery. As a result uninhabited tower with weapons.
Complete in the terminator of ammunition, during the tests shot a single pace, continuously and more than once. And this is a few tons of ammunition, about loads on different kinds Stems and imagine scary.

photo Terminator Shot, Outlet of the rocket from the Attack complex - T, the guidance occurs along the laser beam

Just watch the video terminator combat machine shot in a layer mode

Russian Terminator BPPT combat tank support machine has not yet been adopted by the Russian army, meanwhile is already supplied to exports to foreign countries, such as Kazakhstan.

Ground troops finally adopted the BMPT - a fighting machine support tanks. This is the first in history modern Russia The case of the adoption of armored vehicles of a completely new level, there are no analogues abroad.

Event is actually equivalent to how if they announced the adoption of arms. With the essential difference that there are tanks with us and around the world. And the bump is not.

A machine that does not have equal in the world in a totality of fire power in the near battle is called the Terminator. Naturally, associated with a formidable character-cyborg of the famous Hollywood blockbuster. IN latinAccording to dictionaries, one of the values \u200b\u200bof the TERMINARE word - "stop / finish". And it fully corresponds to the purpose of the BMPT. All those who ranged to destroy the tanks covered by them or lively, when contacting with "Terminators", inevitably cease their existence.

Here are just the main features and advantages of this wonder machine. Crew five people. Four optical observation channels and aiming, panorama of a circular review, high speed turning tower - provide a guaranteed defeat of three targets at a distance at a distance of up to 1000 m. And it is one hundred percent defeat. The actual shooting range of cannons up to four kilometers, and rockets up to five.

On fire power, this car, as experts calculated, surpasses two motorized rifle plats. The angle of elevation of rocket weapons and two 30 mm guns 2A42 in 45 degrees allows you to conduct effective martialctions in highland and in settlements. The machine can affect targets in the basements of buildings and on the floors.

Complex of anti-tank controlled "Attack" missiles with four laser semi-automatic guidance missiles having a supersonic flight speed with a range of 5 km and armor-proof up to 1000 mm homogeneous armor Do not leave the chance of heavy enemy armored vehicles, if this appears on the battlefield. A fragantic fugasic rocket 9M120-1F is guaranteed to affect living force and various engineering structures. The accuracy of her shooting is sniper. The BPTT in the future will have many systems that can determine the exact location of potentially dangerous for tanks and infantry objects, and then issue their data into the fire management system. But today the Terminator sees almost everything.

Tower BMPT on Tank Chassis T-90

The car, excellent in all respects and very necessary land forces, could not get almost 10 years to these troops. And if objectively, then all 25, as it should have appeared already in 1992. In part against her, the name itself was played - combat tank support machine. Not everyone in the leadership of the Ministry of Defense understood, why the tank needs additional support. And it is strange.

After all, another second world War He showed that tanks, climbed off the infantry, are very vulnerable. And in all the warring armies, tank landings began to use - small divisions of the soldiers who sat on the armor, if necessary, dismounted and cleaned about the places where tank fighters could be. Special brackets on towers who were still on Soviet T-62, just intended to have soldiers who accompany armored cars for them.

There are photos on which modern American "Abrasses" move around Iraq, fascinated by infantry.

Surprisingly, until the beginning of the twentieth century, nowhere in the world did not come up with, than, besides people, you can reliably protect the tanks from those who are armed with manual anti-tank grenade launchers. And the grenadeometers are one of the greatest threats to fighting armored vehicles. Invented and done in Russia.

There is an interesting military paradox. Tanks seem to be vulnerable. But if, suppose, there are several tanks in the army motorized rifle column, everyone feels more confident. Tanks were mandatory to support all conducted - military or humanitarian - columns in Afghanistan or quite recently in Chechnya.

As those who have passed the hot spots of the past decades, the best antisyna tool - again the tank. He has excellent observation devices and powerful armor. A well-prepared crew will always find a sniper nest at a distance of a few kilometers and destroy it.

Not by chance in Afghanistan, when Soviet troops entered there, the hunt for tanks immediately began. There, they were effectively covered with anti-aircraft settings "Shilka". Their quadnaya 23 mm guns literally demolished Duvaly and scattered "Zelenk" along with the sowing dresses there. But "Shaitan-Arba", as the "china" called the militants-Islamists called, there were significant drawbacks. It was anti-aircraft installationSo, by definition, dear. In addition, there were few of them in Afghan. And the bronography turned out to be symbolic - made his way from AK-47.

Combat Machine Fire Support Tanks (BMPT) "Terminator"

The initiator of the start of work on the creation of a specialized combat vehicle support and infantry in the mountains in the mountains and settlements was Sergey Alexandrovich Maev. From 1985 to 1987, he served as a deputy army commander of the 40th Army in Afghanistan. At the same time he was the head of the armament of the Turkestan Military District.

It was he who put forward the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a car having a better armor protection than that of a tank, but armed with a small-caliber weapon, which gives the opportunity to provide hurricane firepower within a radius of up to two kilometers. He came up with the name - combat tank support car, although he later regretted it. Now he says, more precisely would be to call her car fire support. To the idea of \u200b\u200bgeneral, with understanding, military scientists were reacted.

The 38th NII Ministry of Defense of the USSR formulated the main directions of creating a BMPT. The head performer of work in 1987 identified a special CB of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. The project received the cipher "Frame". Already in 1989, research tests of the three versions of the machine were conducted, chose optimal. In 1992, BMPT could be ready for state test. But ... Chelyabinsk Tractor went bankrupt, a series of shifts of owners began. Before the defense was there the subjects?

The project was saved that Colonel-General Sergei Maev in 1996 became the head of the main road control department. His authority and perseverance made it possible to translate work in Nizhny Tagil, to Uralvagonzavod. There in 2002 made an experienced sample of the combat vehicle, in the future significantly improved. In 2006, the BMPT successfully passed state test.

Combat Machine Fire Support Tanks (BMPT) "Terminator-3"

The car was recommended by B. as soon as possible Take into service. In 2010, the Glerk Ground Forces The general of the army Alexei Maslov announced the readiness of the troops to take the first bump of the BMPT. But in the same year, the highest leadership of the Ministry of Defense stopped all the work on the BPPT. A very negative role in the fate of the car was played by the former head of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov. Surprisingly, the tanker himself for military education himself, he did not understand the essence created in Russia, without exaggeration, a unique combat vehicle. And he did everything so that the BMPT does not go to the troops. Argument - Support Tanks do not need, they themselves are designed to support. Staff input began.

Further development of the BPPT was at the expense of Uralvagonzavod. And, probably, a decisive role played a presentation new version BMPT - Terminator-2 at the Military Technical Exhibition in the Lower Tagil RAE-2013. Nothing like this in the domestic military exhibition practice did not. It was convincingly shown that a combat vehicle was created in Russia, no analogues in the world not having. The ideologist of the unique show was the Deputy Director of UVZ Alexey Zharich. The presentation was looked at those people who have the right to make a decision. They appreciated it.

In addition, intrigue - intrigues, and war - war. Events in Syria showed all the advantages of Russian T-72 and T-90 tanks even in city fighting conditions. But once again it became clear that a well-protected machine is needed for their fire support.

Uralvagonzavod's specialists before the start of hostilities in Syria began to develop the idea of \u200b\u200ba fire support machine in several directions. In particular, the concept project of the BCM - a combat counter-terrorist machine was proposed. She does not have controlled rocket weapons, protection and machine-gun-cannon weapons are even more strengthened. It is intended to destroy mobile well armed terrorist formations.

Simplified and reduced the classic BMPT with five crew members. The T-72 subject to overhaul, offered to remove the tower with the gun and replace it with a rocket and cannon module. The crew like a tank - three people. The car was called "Terminator-2". An open access has photographs on which this BMPT can be seen on the Russian database of Hmeimim in Syria.

Most likely, all variations of the BPPT and BKM will find their place in the troops and will receive their further development. It is significant that in the United States, Western Europe and the PRC now trying to create analogs of the BMPT. But nobody takes the palm of the championship.

BPTT, even before the Russian army, purchased the army of Kazakhstan, and there this car is very satisfied. And Rosoboronexport receives one application for the other from countries who wanted to buy large parties of Russian "Terminators" almost tomorrow.

Head of the main auto-terminal control of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Alexander Shevchenko said to journalists that by the end of the year russian army The unique development of "Uralvagonzavod" will be adopted - the fighting machine for supporting tanks (BMPT) "Terminator".

According to Shevchenko, the interest in the novelty showed "many countries, primarily Israel and Syria."

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was surprised that Tel Aviv and Damascus were so late became interested in the Terminator. "It is strange that they swinging so long," he wrote to Facebook.

In 2011-2013, 10 "Terminators" were sold to Kazakhstan. In the course international Forum The "Army-2017" of the Ministry of Defense and Uralvagonzavod signed a contract for the supply of the BMPT. The number of purchased machines is not reported.

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Universal combat machine

The nickname "Terminator" received a car under the sector "Object 199" Frame "of the Nizhnya Tagil Design Bureau (OJSC Ubtm). From the beginning of the 2000s, "Terminator-1" and "Terminator-2" were created on the basis of T-72A and T-90. In the near future, "Terminator-3" on the T-14 platform "Armat" appears.

The car is armed with one "Cord" machine gun, two 30-millimeter guns 2A42 (850-900 shots), two Grenates of AGS-17 and four anti-tank controlled missiles (cumulative and thermobaric) type "Attack" 9M120-1 with a laser guidance system.

The Terminator is able to affect tanks and armored vehicles at a distance of up to 10 km depending on the ammunition. At the same time, the range of tank guns usually does not exceed 5 km. The crew of the BPPT consists of five people: commander, anema, mechanic-driver, two operators of coursework pomegranate plants.

A feature of the Terminator is a modern automatic fire control system (SUO) "Frame". The car has allocress ballistic protection against means of lesion. According to media reports, "Uralvagonzavod" intends to put on the "Terminator-3" tools of new calibers and updated combat modules.

The Terminator weighs about as much as the usual tank is over 40 tons. The car does not exceed tanks in mannevitance and speed. However, the BMPT commander has a 360 ° viewing sector due to five periscopic Observation instruments TNP-260.

The Terminator is, in fact, a universal combat vehicle capable of performing many essential functions on the battlefield. But the priority task of the BMPT is to support the tank troops.

Armament "Terminator" is intended for the destruction of tanks and armored vehicles of the enemy, as well as anti-tank guns that artilleryrs use. In addition, the BPPT may affect low-fat objects, destroy machine guns and other engineering fortifications where the infantry is covered.

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Tanks under cover

Tanks must work under cover not only from the air, but also from the ground. It was perfectly realized in the USSR, studying the rich experience of hostilities in which Soviet soldiers participated.

The first experienced combat tank support machine was created in the mid-1980s in Chelyabinsk tractor factory Under the sector "Object 781".

The BMPT was developed on the basis of the main T-72B tank. Chelyabinsk constructors inspired the experience of using "hello thump" (anti-aircraft self-propelled tracked installation ZSU-57-2) in the conditions of urban battles in Vietnam and the Middle East.

The experience of war in Afghanistan also had a huge impact. In the open area and in the conditions of the city tanks turned out to be quite easy target for mobile rocket complexes enemy. In such conditions, BMP-2 demonstrated greater efficacy, the promotion of which covered the anti-aircraft self-propelled installation of the ZSU-23-4 "Shilka".

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Soviet troops needed a new combat vehicle, which would have an armor at a tank level and powerful weapons, including anti-aircraft. However, the restructuring and collapse of the USSR buried the original and necessary project for the land forces.

The need for the BPPT has reappeared again during the period of two Chechen campaigns, when, without proper artillery and aviation training, Russian tanks were often trapped by militants, especially when storming cities.

There is a similar problem from the modern Syrian army. After the start civil War In social networks, photographs appeared on which Soviet ZSU-57-2 were captured - they were formally removed from the arms of the SAR army in the 1990s. According to unconfirmed information, a certain amount of "threshing" really participated in hostilities.

Syria is useful

Military expert Gazeta.Ru, Colonel of the reserve Mikhail Khodarock believes that the use of "Terminators" Syrian troops will be very appropriate. "The militants are often armed with nurses ( anti-tank complexes). Tanks have always been extremely vulnerable to jajahideen with pomegranaters. In addition, the "Terminator" must simplify the storms of the cities, "said RT Koharoynok.

"In my opinion, Israel is unlikely to acquire" Terminators ". The car is likely to be in demand in Iran, other countries of the Middle East and states that are actively increasing and developing tank troops, "the source of RT suggested.

"In Russia, Terminators will come, probably in the tank parts. However, for this you need to revise the states, tables to the states, organizational structure. This is a long enough process, and you need to prepare for the receipt of machines, "said Khodarock.

Armored equipment of Russia and the world photo, video Watch online significantly differed from all predecessors. For a large supply of buoyancy, the height of the housing was noticeably increased, and to improve the stimulus in cross section, a trapezoidal form was granted. The required puoletness of the housing provided a rolled cement armor with an additional hardened outer layer of the KO ("Coulebakite"). In the manufacture of the housing, welding armor sheets with an internal soft side was used, special sets were used to facilitate the assembly. To simplify the installation of the aggregates, the upper armor sheets of the case made removable with a seal on tissue gaskets, lubricated by Surik.

The World War II armored vehicle in which the crew of their two people was located near the longitudinal axis in the head of each other, but the tower with weapons was shifted by 250 mm to the left side. The power unit is shifted to the right side in such a way that access to engine repair was possible from the inside of the combat branch of the tank after removing the safety partition. In the stern of the tank on the sides, two gas tanks were located with a capacity of 100 liters., And directly behind the engine - the radiator and heat exchanger, washed by intricate water when moving on the horipon. On the stern, in a special niche, a rowing screw with grooming rods was located. The balance of the tank was selected in such a way that he had a small differential on the stern. The drive of the propeller was carried out by a cardan shaft from the power take-off box, reinforced on the transmission change box.

In January 1938 armored vehicles in January 1938, at the request of the head of Abtu D. Pavlov, the tank was reinforced by installing a 45-mm semi-automatic gun or a 37-mm automatic gun, and in case of installation of a semi-automatic crew, up to three people should have been increased. The atmosphere of the tank should consist of 61 shots for a 45-mm gun and 1300 ammunition to the machine gun. KB Plant No. 185 completed two projects on the topic "Castle", as a prototype of which the Swedish tank "Landswark-30" was used.

The Wehrmacht armored vehicles did not avoid trouble with the engine forcing. To this, you can add only that the specified crisis was overcome actually only in 1938, for which the tank was not only a forced engine. In order to strengthen the suspension in it, thicker springs were applied. Rubber bandages made from neoprene - domestic synthetic rubber, launched the production of tracks from steel Gartfield hot stamping, clamped tvch fingers introduced. But all these changes in the tank were not introduced simultaneously. The case of a tank with inclined armored persons was failed to manufacture on time. However, the conical tower of improved protection was submitted on time, and the tank with the former body, enhanced suspension (due to the installation of thicker springs), the forced engine and the new tower entered the test on the nibtpoligon.

Modern armored vehicles went under the conditional index T-51. In it, the process of transition from tracks on the wheels was preserved, like a prototype, - lowering special levers with wheels without human output. However, after adjusting the requirements for the tank that made it triple (it was decided to maintain a duplicate management of the charging), and the strengthening of its weapons to the BT level of the wheel stroke according to the Landswoman type was already impossible to implement. In addition, the transmission of the wheel drive tank was excessively complex. Therefore, soon work on the topic "Castle" was carried out over the T-116 tank, in which the "pereobuty" was produced by the type of BT - with the removal of tracked chains.

BPPT with an impressive bouquet of weapons, quite decent armor protection never appeared in the Armed Forces of Russia. There is a completely reasonable question: "Why"? Maybe the car is not at all so good, as its developers speak about her?

Before answering these questions, I suggest you (very short) on the history of the creation of a combat vehicle support "Terminator", get acquainted with the main technical characteristics "Terminators", and after that try to understand "why."

History of creation and TTH BPTT "Terminator"

Start offering from the name of the object (so that there is no discrepancies in the subsequent) "Terminator". So the BPMT is often referred to in the press and official releases. In the narrower circles, the designation "Object 199" and "Frame" applies. For our armed forces, this is quite a normal practice that has developed in times Soviet Union. So, for example, T-72 Tank "Ural" initially, before adopting it, it was called as "Object 172".

Numerous authors argue that the development of a fighting machine for tank support began in the USSR, in the 80s, as the reaction of the Soviet defense on the experience of applying tanks in Afghanistan. The years of starting work are true, but the cause of development seems to me completely contrived. Why Figified? We will talk about it somewhat later.

It is known that the teams and Omsk KB were originally developed by the BMPT. The machine was developed on the basis of T-72a tank. In the future, its more successful, the version of the Combat Machine developed FSUE "Ural Transport Machine Building", more known as "Uralvagonzavod". Machines were developed on the basis of T-72 and T-90.

The second option, based on the T-90, was approved for a possible serial production. It was this car that was called the Terminator.

Terminator armed:

• two different automatic 30-mm guns 2A42 with vertical target angles from - 5 to + 45 degrees, horizontal angle - 360 degrees, with an effective firing range by infantry - 4,000 m, according to easy-fertilized purposes - 1,500 m, for air targets - to 2 000 m. Amusement - 900 shots;
• paired with guns with a machine gun Pectm 7.62 mm with ammunition 2,000 shots;
• two coursework grenade launches AG-17D with ammunition 600 shots for the destruction of live strength on a distance of up to 2,000 m;
• complex PU KUV "Atak-T" - four starting installations Ur 9M120-1, which ensure the defeat of armored goals, live strength, fobs, air defense objects, and helicopters for a distance of up to 6,000 m.

• the main gunner is combined, with optical and thermal imaging channels, with a laser-radiation channel of control rockets, with a laser rangefinder;
• sight commander panoramic with thermal imaging canal and laser rangefinder;
• pomegranate operators combed sights for shooting and night.

The fire control system allows the "Terminator" simultaneously to heat the fire in four targets.

Crew BPTT - 5 people.

One of an important features This car is "modularity" - combat modules can be mounted almost on all tanks that are manufactured in Russia and were produced in the USSR.

I will not list all the characteristics of the Terminator for the simple reason that the car did not go to the series. According to numerous authors - due to the enormous cost of the TERMINATOR BMPT. This is allegedly, the main reason.

BPTT - 72 or "Terminator - 2"

BPTT-72 tank support combat machine (more famous as "Terminator-2") appeared on the light "at the request" of Kazakh military, who wished to have a cheaper car.

What is the difference between the "Terminator" from Terminator-2?

Main differences:

1. the machine is designed for the cheapest chassis T-72 tank;
2. starting installations of the Ptthi protected from bullets and fragments with armored keys;
3. grennets removed from the car, which made it possible to reduce the number of crew members to 3 people;
4. improved fire management system. However, BMPT-72 efficiently "works" for only one goal;
5. changed external machines of the machine, which made it possible to reduce the level of EPR.

In general, Terminator-2 became easier for 3 tons, easier and significantly cheaper.

Perspective BMPT "Terminator - 3"

After the appearance of "Armati", naturally, the development and promising version of the BPPT continued, which the people have already identified as "Terminator-3" on the basis of a new tank. It is rumored that the new "Terminator" is equipped, among other things, the newest AU-220M combat module. This module includes a 57-mm automatic gun, which was designed for fleet.

This cannon has elegant raininess - 300 shots per minute, and just incredible, for such a caliber, the range of targets is up to 12,000 m. These characteristics suggest that "Terminator-3" will be able to affect almost all types of purposes: air and ground.

This 57-mm gun at a distance of 4,000 m punches 100-mm armor, and the serial panel building stitches (in the full sense of the word, i.e. punches through) on a range of up to 4,500 m.

Perhaps this is all that I managed to find about the new Terminator. All other characteristics are a big secret or military mystery.

Evaluation of the Communist Party of Tank Support "Terminator"

Good car! One word is the Terminator. All hands combat master. And from this there is a completely reasonable question about how to apply this masters in a real combat situation?

The Terminator may fight with low-fat target types of helicopter and drone, can fight tanks and other armored goals, it can very effectively fight infantry due to the presence of a powerful intelligence complex for such purposes, can successfully fight in the city or, for example, in the mountains.

Why do we need tanks at all? And why air defense tank Forces? And infantry from tank parts can be eliminated?

The whole focus is that the Terminator is all in the complex makes better than the average tank, but worse than a specialized combat vehicle that is "sharpened" to perform a specific task on the battlefield.

No longer a young (not modern) "Tunguska" on air targets will work much more efficiently than the "Terminator". And she, Tungusk for this you do not need to go to the attack in one line with tanks.

T-90 will figure out with other people's tanks no worse than the Terminator does. And what is important, cheaper. And the tank itself is significantly cheaper than BMPT.

The infantry today, alas, on the battlefield, it will not be possible to replace the car. And then there is not only in the density of fire and the weight of one volley. The Terminator can spit iron and lead more than a motorized rifle platoon, but can it fulfill the tasks that this motorized rifle platoon solves in battle? Let me remind you that the infantry is not only on the non-chanted meadows runs - the possibilities of these guys are much wider. And they fight not only in the pure field. How will this car fight in the forest or in a swamp?

In the thirties, Soviet designers tried to build an airplane-tank. Two in one bottle, as they say now. Here, the fighting machine for supporting tanks "Terminator" seems to me the same tank aircraft - it looks great, the potential opportunity is impressive, use in real battle, as a BMPT, doubtful.

Maybe it is sharpened to solve other tasks? On support for motorcycles in the city, for example. Or introduce into a regular tank unit, i.e. not as a bid unit, but composite part tank platoon, companies, etc. But then you will have to rewrite the combat charter for these units - how to build a combat order, how to use the "Terminator" in the offensive, in defense and other types of combat. Then the "Terminator" will become not just a unique combat vehicle "on all hands", but really repeatedly increase the combat effectiveness of tank parts. Ie will be able to get synergies when 1 + 1 is no longer 2, and 3 or 4. And maybe more.

Discussion: 4 comments

1. it is difficult to speculate to say what he is, this "Terminator" ...

   frontal tank attacks, after the Second World War, no one has seen in the eyes and did not participate in them ...

   wars generally lost such a thing as "front line"
   Partially in Korea and completely in Vietnam, and all subsequent conflict wars did not suffer from this "classic" of the 20th century war

   since modern conflicts have a focal type of combat operation by the epicenter of which is, as a rule, the city

   it is necessary to believe that the "Terminator" will best show itself as a "urban" fighter ....
   True, for this, he needs to "raise" the vertical angle of guns to about 70 degrees and return the grenade launchers ...
   "Sew / delight" anti-cultivative lattice ...

   and considering the experience of the Second World War, attribute a landing landing towards streets ..

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