Manufacture and supply of missile systems for attack helicopters Mi-28 and Ka-52 is compensated for the loss of concern for the small arms market
Attack helicopters Mi-28N and Ka-52 during the operation of the Russian Air and space forces in Syria used the latest anti-tank guided missiles “Ataka” and “Vortex-M”. According to “Izvestia”, the machine used during the battles near the city of HOMS two types of guided missiles with cumulative anti-tank and anti-personnel high-explosive warheads. Mi-28N destroyed infantry fighting vehicle BMP-1 and engineering construction with the terrorists barricaded inside.
— Anti-tank missile complexes (ATGW) has ceased to be a highly specialized anti-tank means, — has told “news” the editor of the magazine “Arsenal Fatherland” Victor murakhovski. — After the operation the IDF “Cast lead” in 2008, it is understood that the ATGM can be effective means of destruction of armored vehicles, enemy manpower, destroy buildings and even strike aircraft of various classes. The issue in combat units. If earlier ATGM compl cumulative warheads for “burning” dynamic systems and armor protection of the armored vehicles, now used high-explosive or thermobaric defeat for residential properties.
According to the expert, the test of modern ATGM in combat conditions is very significant. Attack helicopters Mi-28 and Ka-52 be one of the main export goods of Russia. The first has already been shipped to Iraq, where government forces are actively used in operations against the militants of the terrorist organization ISIL (banned in Russia), the second machine selected Egypt as the weapons of the French helicopter carrier type “Mistral”. According to unofficial data, Cairo will receive 58 CA-52 — land and ship modifications.
Indirect confirmation of this may be a statement of the General Director of concern radio-Electronic technologies (KRET) Nikolay Kolesov that in June-July of this year the company will complete the delivery of the first 28 electronic warfare complexes “President-s”, used in the helicopters of this brand. In the future, as noted Kolesov, Egypt will buy another 30 of these systems.
Delivery of Ka-52 on the export and opens up the prospect before the new ATGM “Vortex-M”. The complex has an automatic laser-beam guidance system and a range of up to 10 thousand meters. It was developed by the Tula instrument Design Bureau (KBP), is made at the enterprises of the concern “Kalashnikov”. “Vortex-M” arrived on arms in the ATT the end of 2015. In fact, a contract worth 13 billion was fulfilled by April of this year.
Cumulative-high-explosive warhead missiles 9А4172 “Vortex-M” can penetrate the armor (including active) modern foreign tanks from different angles. Maximum penetration — 1000 mm. maximum-range rocket flies not more than 28 seconds, which virtually eliminates the possibility of enemy armored vehicles to avoid meeting with her. “Vortex-M” — the regular weapons attack helicopters Ka-52 and tactical attack aircraft su-25.
As said Viktor Murakhovsky, “Vortex-M” actually saved the concern “Kalashnikov” from the bankruptcy caused by the sanctions and the loss of company American and European market for small arms. Today the concern “Kalashnikov” has agreed about purchase of ZAO “NPO high-Precision systems and technologies” (BCT). The decision to purchase the company’s share of the TSA, as noted by the General Director of the concern Alexey Krivoruchko, is aimed at further expansion of the product line of concern within the development strategy until 2020 and the formation of a diversified defense holding company specializing in the development and production of integrated weapon systems, including missile weapons.
— The conditions of a real war is the best mechanism to check the effectiveness of created weapons and military equipment, — told “Izvestia” Director of the Center for analysis of world arms trade (CAMCO) Igor Korotchenko. — In the fighting in Syria armed forces first used the latest models of aircraft, naval and missile technology, a large number of the latest design techniques of communication, data transmission, electronic warfare, unmanned aerial vehicles, space systems intelligence. There were tested and guided munitions. Checking equipment and weapons in real conditions allowed the company to identify its weaknesses, to take measures to eliminate them. Which, including eliminated quickly by the representatives of the enterprises of the Russian defence industry on the spot.
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