ABU DHABI, 23 Feb-RIA Novosti. State tests of 30-millimeter ammunition with remote detonation for combat vehicles supporting Terminator tanks will start in April 2021, the general director of the company developing these shells, NPO Pribor (part of the Techmash concern), told RIA Novosti.") Yuri Nabokov.
Thus, the timing of the projectile tests is shifted "to the right". Earlier, Nabokov told RIA Novosti that they will be ready by the end of 2020.
"The shells for the Terminator are going to state tests, in fact, we are starting them under the directive from April 1 of this year. I think that by the end of next year, ammunition with remote detonation will be ready, we are laying for testing for about eight to nine months, then we will have formal procedures for processing documents, " Nabokov said.
The Terminator tank Support vehicle (BMPT) was adopted by the Russian Armed Forces in 2018. The BMPT weapons complex consists of two 30-mm 2A42 cannons, four 9M120-1 anti-tank guided missiles of the Ataka type with a laser guidance system, two AGS-17 grenade launchers and a 7.62-mm modernized Kalashnikov tank machine gun.
The first contract for the supply of the Terminator BMPT to the Russian armed forces was signed during the Army-2017 scientific and technical forum.