Airborne Combat Vehicles: What They Fight in the NWO Zone

Armor sheds weight

Limit flight conCthe dimensions of military transport aviation cargo compartments and the characteristics of existing parachute systems. When designing equipment for the Airborne Forces, there are strict weight and size standards.

Therefore, all the combat vehicles presented belong to the class of light armored vehicles, have aluminum hulls and protect only against bullets and shrapnel. But it’s still better than no protection at all.

In addition, there are specific customer requirements. For successful autonomous operations behind enemy lines, the Airborne Forces prefer well-armed, spacious and reasonably versatile airborne tracked vehicles. In addition, with an impressive power reserve, variable ground clearance and also floating.

BMD-4M: betting on weapons

Winged infantry air combat vehicle – an analogue of a land-based infantry fighting vehicle. It is produced by Kurganmashzavod. In service since 2016.

It is maximally united with the BMP-3M, but lighter, shortened (the chassis has five rollers instead of six). And it is adapted to solve the tasks of the Airborne Forces, the main of which is landing in the air by parachute, parachute jet or landing method.

Can accommodate three crew members and five paratroopers (up from seven in the BMP-3M).

The powerplant is a 500 hp UTD-29 diesel engine and a semi-automatic gearbox.

The machine is equipped with a hydropneumatic suspension with variable ground clearance. Working ground clearance – 450 mm, but can be enlarged to 530 mm or reduced to 130 mm.

The landing vehicle turned out to be mobile, fast, agile, with a range of 500 km and the ability to swim with the help of water jets (10 km / h with waves up to 3-4 points).

But the main advantage of the BMD-4M is powerful weapons. The habitable tower module B8Ya01 Bakhcha-U, designed by the Tula Instrument Design Bureau, houses an automatic 100 mm gun – a 2A70 launcher, a 2A72 rapid-fire gun with a caliber of 30 mm and a PKTM 7.62 mm machine gun.

In a single loader of the main caliber – 34 projectiles with a range of up to 7 km and 4 Arkan anti-tank guided missiles with a tandem cumulative warhead (pierces armor up to 750 mm) and a range of up to 5.5 km. Small caliber 2A72 with a moving barrel hits ground targets at a distance of up to 4 km.

The ammunition includes high-explosive fragmentation incendiaries, fragmentation tracer, armor-piercing tracer, and sub-caliber armor-piercing shells with enhanced penetration. The gun features a double sided tape feed with automated and manual feed switching.

BMD-4M is equipped with an effective fire control system.

It allows you to hit ground and air targets around the clock from a spot and on the move.

The complex includes a ballistics computer, a laser rangefinder, a thermal imaging sight, a target tracking machine and a panoramic thermal imaging sight. commander.

Full duplication of commander firing with all types of weapons is provided.

BTR-MDM Shell: more paratroopers, more cargo

The purpose of this machine is a hovering armored personnel carrier in the air.

It is unified with the BMD-4M in terms of chassis and power plant. Difference: minus the tower with weapons, plus the number of seats.

Shell shell – cutting type bulletproof aluminum armor. Engine – multi-fuel diesel UTD-29.

In the variable ground clearance undercarriage, there are five wheels per each side pneumohydrofeathers.

IN to land pocket on the sides of three double chairs. They can be folded and have a spacious luggage compartment.

Ammunition boxes, fuel barrels and other luggage are secured with straps. Along the sides there are devices for fixing stretchers with the wounded.

The stretcher can be arranged in three layers. In the management department there are places for the driver, the commander and another parachutist.

In total, the Shell takes on board two crew members and thirteen parachutists, or two tons of cargo.

The machine is equipped with an outdoor air purification system with a filter ventilation unit. There are (although not as powerful as that of the BMD-4M) fire support weapons – two 7.62 millimeter machine guns. One exchange rate, the other – a circular attack. The latter is located on the roof near the commander’s hatch.

Shell and BMD-4M complement each other. Behind one machine – capacity, after another – fire current.

Nona-SM: one to replace three

The 2S9-1M Nona-SM vehicle is a brilliant embodiment of the idea of ​​replacing the paratroopers with a self-propelled gun, a towed howitzer and a mortar with a single self-propelled gun.

The self-propelled guns are based on the chassis of the Soviet-designed BTR-D tracked armored personnel carrier (based on the BMP-1).

The car has an aluminum hull, hydropneumatic suspension, navigable propulsion.

The powerplant is a 5D20 six-cylinder diesel engine mated to a four-speed manual transmission.

But the most interesting thing is in the turret – a rifled 120 mm semi-automatic gun 2A51M.

In fact, this is an artillery system that combines the functions of a gun, howitzer and mortar. That is, a universal means of fire support for paratroopers on the battlefield.

The gun is equipped with a pneumatic mechanism for sending charges, which is especially in demand at high angles of elevation of the barrel. The rate of fire of the 2A51M is up to 10 rounds per minute.

The range depends on the type of ammunition. a their there are many made especially for this weapon.

Explosive mines and incendiary mines can hit targets at ranges from 450 m to 7.1 km. The range of explosive fragmentation and thermobaric projectiles is up to 8.8 km, active rocket projectiles – up to 12.8 km, guided missiles and mines – up to 12 km, cumulative – up to a kilometer, cluster – up to 8 km.

In addition, the gun can fire not only domestic ammunition, but also foreign-made shells and mines, allowing paratroopers in the deep rear to use enemy magazines.

Characteristics of airborne combat vehicles

Photo: Vadim Kryuchkov and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation