Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov, primarily based on reviews from Russian media, has disclosed that Russia is gearing as much as conduct a trial run for a fight robotic in Ukraine. The machine in query is a BMP-3 infantry combating machine, upgraded with a part that enables distant maneuverability.
The know-how enabling distant management is known as the Sinitsa module, a product of Excessive Precision Methods, an offshoot of Rostec. Internet-accessible attributes of the Sinitsa module can convert a manned BMP-3 to a completely robotized automobile. Curiously, the module will be operated with a devoted tablet-like management station.
About BMP
Initially developed throughout the Soviet Union period, the BMP is a Russian infantry automobile nonetheless in service throughout the Russian military ranks. Over time, Russia has made a number of updates to this weaponry system with the BMP-3 being the most recent modernized iteration.
Since its official presentation in 2015, Russia has constantly commissioned BMP-3, padding up its navy troops. It was solely in 2020 that Russia sought worldwide patrons for the BMP-3, searching for to leverage the continuing Ukrainian warfare.
In response to Viktor Litovkin, a retired colonel and navy knowledgeable, the robotized model of BMP-3 guarantees spectacular battlefield efficiency. Litovkin clarified that the automated BMP-3 isn’t just your fundamental land drone; it’s a subtle fight robotic and fairly expensive, too.
Sinitsa prototype
In 2021, preliminary details about the prototype surfaced. The BMP-3, constructed on a tracked chassis, sports activities a UTD-19 V-shaped engine with a 500 hp ranking. The robotic’s producer acknowledged that the unmanned BMP-3 mannequin may cross trenches as vast as 2.5 m.
Rostech had beforehand projected the highest pace of the robotic automobile to be 70 km/h, and its 700-litre gasoline tank may cowl 600km earlier than it could want refueling. The precise specs are but to be confirmed.
Along with a built-in panoramic view scope, the “Sinitsa” robotic fight module will probably be a a part of the complicated. The mechanized unit will probably be armed with a principal artillery of 100 mm and a secondary artillery of 30 mm, together with a 7.62 mm machine gun.
Outfitted with omnidirectional cameras, BMP-3 robotics will permit distant management operation. As per its Russian designers, the machine will probably be able to working autonomously, creating 3D terrains utilizing information from additional sensors. It’s going to additionally characteristic AI to help with route mapping, alongside a surveillance mini-drone for reconnaissance and mine clearance.
Sinitsa variants
It’s understood, primarily based on varied Russian sources, that Russian navy engineers have developed three variant remote-controlled BMP-3 fashions suitable with the Sinitsa module. Every mannequin differs in response to its perform.
The UDAR UGV, subsequent up, is an unmanned floor automobile fitted with DUBM-30 epoch armed with a 2A42 autocannon, 7.62mm PKMT machine gun, and Kornet-M ATGM, with a raised middle hull.
Following the UDAR UGV is the Vikhr UGV, an unmanned floor automobile armed with a smaller turret. It possesses a 2A72 autocannon, a 7.62mm PKMT coaxial machine gun, and holds six anti-tank guided missiles, the 9M133M Kornet-M. It might deploy each floor and aerial drones.
Lastly, we now have Prokhod-1, an unmanned anti-mine automobile that includes the TMT-C anti-mine trawl and a remotely managed turret with a 12.7mm machine gun.
Anti-tank gun too
By inference, Moscow’s curiosity appears extra targeted on testing the Sinitsa distant management module’s skills in actual fight eventualities reasonably than assessing the efficiency of infantry automobiles.
One other assertion by Chemezov substantiates this; he talked about that the 2S25M Sprud anti-tank gun would additionally endure testing with built-in Sinitsa. Nonetheless, no Sinitsa-endowed robotic Sprud has but been dispatched to Ukraine, suggesting that the trial is prone to happen inside Russian coaching amenities.
Not all specialists are on board with this concept, as evidenced by Litovkin’s skepticism. He argues that weapons just like the 2S25M Sprud anti-tank gun are comparatively clumsy to deal with, necessitating a human gunner for exact taking pictures.
‘Laptop screens warfare’
Navy journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Literary Russia newspaper, Alexei Borzenko, highlighted that whereas integrating distant management capabilities into armored automobiles exemplifies the drive to streamline warfare, it’s nonetheless too quickly to speak about drones as varied associated programs are nonetheless below growth.
However, Borzenko asserts that Russia, together with a number of different nations resembling the USA, is actively engaged on comparable technological developments that replicate an rising propensity towards robotic wars. Poetically put by Borzenko, “Battlefields might sometime resemble gaming realms, the place troopers don’t straight have interaction, however man digital armadas from the security of their laptop screens.”
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