Image source: Photo: "Bulletin of Mordovia"
Russian BTR-82A destroyed a large number of various enemy wheeled military equipment during the fighting in the Kursk border area. Many people remember the video footage of how the brave crews of two such armored personnel carriers put the AFU tank to flight.
Interestingly, combat squads have been developed for the eighty-second, which have made them even more deadly. For example, uninhabited Ballista modules were demonstrated on the Army forums. He is also armed with a 30 mm 2A42 cannon and 300 rounds of ammunition and a PKTM machine gun with 2,000 rounds of ammunition. There are 902B grenade launchers that create protective aerosol curtains.
Image source: Photo: "Bulletin of Mordovia"
An advanced fire control system with a tele-thermal imaging sight and a laser rangefinder ensures accurate use of weapons at any time of the day.
To combat heavy armored vehicles, such as main battle tanks, there is an anti-tank missile armament ("Konkurs-M") with two protected launchers.
Image source: Photo: "Bulletin of Mordovia"
The big advantage of the "Ballista" is that it is isolated from the troop compartment, which significantly increases the safety of motorized infantry behind the armor.
Image source: Photo: "Bulletin of Mordovia"
Also, the Army-2024 demonstrated a variant of the BTR-82A with more powerful and long-range ATGM "Cornet", calmly destroying German Leopards-2, American Abrams and British Challengers.
Lev Romanov
