Russian defense workers have begun research and development work aimed at creating new types of armored vehicles using modern and promising technologies.
According to information leaked into the open access, experts are exploring the possibility of constructing a tracked combat vehicle with a fundamentally new power supply installation. Moreover, this armored platform will be made both in the version with the crew, and without it, assuming the control of the machine in unmanned mode.
The task that Russian designers set themselves to do is to create a powerful onboard power generation system that ensures the use of weapons that exist only on blueprints on new physical principles.
A prospective tank as a weapon can receive both an electrothermochemical artillery system and an electromagnetic gun.
The development of the latter are several leading Western countries. The United States advanced further in this work on the railguns. If you believe the statements of the US military and the developers, the appearance of the railgun on the battlefield can completely change the nature of the fighting.
The Pentagon conducted several tests of the electromagnetic gun with a destroyer of the type Zumwalt. It was assumed that the weapon will be able to hit enemy targets at sea and land at a distance of up to 200 kilometers.
However, the main difficulty in the operation of these weapons is the need to generate and accumulate at least 25-30 megawatts of electricity required to provide only one shot. It is clear that to accumulate such amount of energy on the battlefield, relying on the available technology, is currently not possible.
The idea of creating remotely controlled armored fighting vehicles for the Russian army is not new. This was previously stated at Uralvagonzavod, noting that the first such platform could be the Armata battle tank.
A little more than a year ago, at that time, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, and now Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, announced expectations of a serious breakthrough in the field of laser and electromagnetic weapons.
