BY TOP WAR
Combat tandem: combat wheeled vehicle, consisting of two modules. The front module houses the engine and armament. In the second – also an engine, but of less power, a compartment for troops and a ZSU installation. Such a project was developed in France but was not approved.
First Corinthians 12:26
Tank panopticon. And it happened that back in 1997 and 1998, the Military Parade magazine published material by V. Batenin, V. Kovalev and M. Starostin, named representatives of the Academy of Armored Forces, about a fundamentally new approach to creating tanks of the XNUMXst century. What interesting things did they offer, such that it was possible to paint in as many as three materials? And they proposed a new approach to the design of armored vehicles, which, in their opinion, is capable of taking our tanks completely apart from what our potential opponents have.
The concept – “all units and crew in one building”, in the opinion of the authors of this series of articles, is outdated and does not provide an opportunity to create new and perfect tanks. They say that more and more new and complex systems are being introduced into the design of tanks, the caliber of the gun is increasing, armor protection is growing, and accordingly, the power of the tank engine is increasing. But … everything in the world has a limit. Tanks are getting heavier and heavier. Free reserved space is also decreasing all the time, which reduces the comfort of the crew.
As a result, the crew cannot realize more than 70% of the potential capabilities of the tank. And traditional layout solutions do not make it possible to significantly increase its performance characteristics. It is required to reach a new, higher level of efficiency – and how to do this if, in fact, all the possibilities for improving tanks with the traditional approach to their design have been exhausted?
