Equipped with a new anti-tank missile defense system, the T-72B3 was demonstrated at the Kadamovsky training ground in the Rostov region.
Tank crews fired at emerging or moving targets at distances from 300 to 2000 meters. During the combat shooting, the generals, as reported by the press service of the Southern Military District, fired from T-72B3 cannons with a regular shell, as well as from a large-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun.
The new protective device installed in the upper part of the tower looks like a canopy, for which it received an unofficial name among tankers - "sun visor".
However, as reported by " RG " in the military department, the design is designed to strengthen protection against anti-tank missiles and ammunition of the new generation. As you know, modern ATGMs, including the American Javelin, are developed with the expectation that the missile will hit the most vulnerable parts of armored vehicles. One of these places is the upper projection of the tank tower.
In addition, barrage drones also aim to hit tanks and other armored vehicles precisely in the least armored upper part of the hull.
"In the near future, the remaining T-72 tanks will receive similar protection elements," the ministry stressed.
Information about the principles of operation of "sun visors" is not reported. Judging by the photos, it can be assumed that the devices are designed to provoke the explosion of a rocket or ammunition in front of the main armor. This will weaken the effect of the shaped charge.
By the way
In the first race, the test for fire training was successfully passed by the commanders of the 49th and 58th combined arms armies, Lieutenant-General Yakov Rezantsev and Mikhail Zusko, in the third firing direction, the crew of the 22nd Army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet under the command of Major-General Denis Lyamin. The army men from the Crimea showed the best result.
Nikolay Grishchenko
