Minsk. January 6th. INTERFAX - The Laguna combat fire control complex has been created and handed over to the customer, the State Military-Industrial Committee (GVPC) of Belarus reported.
"Within the framework of internal cooperation, the enterprises of one of the holdings included in the Goskomvoenprom system have created and transferred to the customer the 1V12 BME Laguna combat fire control complex," the message says.
According to the ministry, the complex provides reconnaissance, automated and non-automated control of the combat operations of an artillery division (battery) armed with various artillery and rocket systems ("Grad", "Peony", "Carnation", etc.), as well as continuous interaction with combined arms units.
"The complex combines the car of the division commander, the cars of three battery commanders, the chief of staff of the division, three senior battery officers and a gun set of fire control equipment (according to the number of artillery installations) that are in service with artillery batteries," the GVPK noted.
On the basis of the communication and data transmission system, a single digital exchange of information takes place, starting from the division commander and up to the commander of the combat vehicle.
The division commander's control vehicle (battery) is placed on the chassis of the four-wheel drive armored car "Cayman".
"The machine is equipped with digital HF and VHF radio stations with data exchange function, automation tools for preparing and receiving and transmitting data for shooting with special software, digital terrain map and satellite navigation, as well as built-in and remote optoelectronic reconnaissance tools that allow monitoring the terrain and determining the coordinates of targets day and night," the State Military Industry said.
The control car of the division Chief of Staff (senior battery officer) is placed on the chassis of the Ural-4320 all-terrain vehicle with a 6x6 wheel formula.
In addition to digital HF and VHF radio stations, data automation tools, digital terrain maps and navigation, the machine also received an automatic weather station for measuring ground-based weather data.