Recently, special interest has been paid to the so-called dual-use products. At the exhibition of modern weapons held in early autumn in Nizhny Tagil, the machine-building and industrial "Tractor Plants" Concern demonstrated its own capabilities in the supply of special products, as well as its potentialities in the manufacture of dual-use products. The concern presented to the audience the airborne combat vehicles (BMD-4M) and modernized infantry fighting vehicles (BMP-3M), as well as an ERA for the T-90S tank. The exhibition also demonstrated their developments for armored vehicles and personal protective equipment. Sergey Kizyun, Head of the Special and Dual-Purpose Products Division, told Arms of Russia about the latest latest developments of the Concern.
Sergei Kizyun says that today the Tractor Plants Concern provides the most demanded products in Russia in this area. “There is such a concept -“the people of Russia”. And it is to this people that we want to report that it is not in vain that we wave spoons and eat bread and butter, and from time to time we also have days off. We have proved to everyone that the Concern is in a position to develop military equipment on its own initiative. So we presented the BMD-4M, which was created on our initiative for the concern's working capital by order of the Russian Ministry of Defense."
"BMD-4M" is a vehicle of the highest level in terms of technical and combat characteristics. Its firepower is also quite large - a 100-mm gun with a launcher, a 30-mm automatic cannon and small arms. Regarding whether the BMD-4M will be adopted or not, Mr. Kizyun said: “The machine is really unique, it is the only one in the world. We cannot yet say anything about the possibility of adopting it. The final word on this matter rests with the Ministry of Defense. It sets before us specific tasks for the appearance of technology. The army is carrying out its combat missions. We have fulfilled the tasks set by the Russian Defense Ministry in full. What was ordered was made.”
Further S. Kizyun emphasized: "The excellent result, which was obtained during the development of" BMD-4M ", is also considered a merit of the Russian Ministry of Defense." For the first time, the Ministry has set stringent requirements for the ergonomics of the machine. “It is thanks to these requirements that we have created a car in which a person is comfortable and comfortable - he makes a single whole with it, does not lose combat effectiveness and does not get tired while moving in it. The second requirement, which the Ministry of Defense put forward rather harshly to the "BMD-4M", we also managed to make successfully - this is endurance and security. These are exactly the same trends that we have already managed to implement in BMP-3, - stressed Mr. Kizyun. Now "BMD-4M" is not inferior to the level of safety of "BMP-3M".
The representative of the Concern noted that BMD-4M was actively interested in the management of OJSC Rosoboronexport: “General Director of the joint-stock company Anatoly Isaykin carefully examined both of our machines, and, in general, was satisfied with the work done by the Concern”.
Representatives of the delegations of India and a number of other countries, including the Land Forces of Finland, are already very seriously interested in this machine as a source of the latest technical solutions and technologies.
Sergei Kizyun noted that it has now become obvious that the country's industrial complex is represented by various companies. And the development of the formation of the industrial sector in Russia is an object of responsibility not only of the country, but also of the companies themselves, which are obliged not only to learn to exist in the newest market conditions, but also to take a benchmark for fulfilling the tasks that the country's leadership sets for them. “I mean the following: the country's leadership told us: we need security and ergonomics. And we made it,”he stressed. In addition, the technique is obliged to conquer new heights. One more important aspect cannot be neglected - modernization and application of the latest technologies. “These are the main tasks of the Tractor Plants Concern, which our concern will try to implement as much as possible. Despite all the difficulties. The crisis has thrown us all back. But at the moment we and our partners will try to fulfill the assigned tasks, concentrating our own resources as much as possible."
“We made a report on the materials of what we produce. Demonstrated technologies that are being developed in our research institutes. Of course, this is our Russian know-how and developments. We are naturally proud of them. As for the so-called "outdated" equipment, the management of the Concern requires finding ways to modernize it. That is why, if equipment has been used in the Armed Forces for 15-30 years, it does not have to exist in the form of "frozen" in its development. From year to year it is obliged to get better and better, to be updated and modernized. This is exactly what was shown on the models of our machines, where the main priorities of their modernization were safety, the highest firepower, ergonomics and maneuverability,”S. Kizyun assured.
It should be noted that the premiere show of the T-90S tank did not go without the participation of the Research Institute of Steel, which is part of the Tractor Plants Concern's DSiPDN. The newest tank has in its arsenal dynamic protection of the modular type "Relic". It reliably protects the vehicle from all advanced and promising anti-tank weapons. The developments of the Research Institute of Steel were also presented in the samples of the Ural armored vehicles - prototypes of armored vehicles, which are better known as the Typhoon, the Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, equipped with the modernized cloak complex “Cape”.
Well, all this - BMP-3M, BMD-4M, T-90S tank and much more - was demonstrated in action during the show. All armored vehicles at the highest level showed their running and combat performance when firing from a place, during the march, from the water. The adherents of this type of technique were delighted.
