Rostec is doing everything necessary to speed up the delivery of the latest Derivation-PVO anti-aircraft gun system to the troops. This is the only SPAAG in the world that hits air targets with 57-mm guns and equipped with fire control artillery fire.
For the first time, Derivation-PVO was presented at the Army-2018 forum, in June 2020, the system first took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square.
The self-propelled anti-aircraft gun was developed on the chassis of a combat infantry fighting vehicle BMP-3. The 2S38 gun is capable of firing ammunition with controlled detonation for the most effective fight against air targets. First of all, it is designed to combat cruise missiles, drones and aviation weapons in the near zone, it can also work on ground targets.
Military expert Evgeny Damantsev noted that Derivation-PVO can be used to support tanks in battle.
He recalled that key elements of the armament of the heavy Swedish BMP CV9040C "Stridsfordon-90", in particular, the Bofors L70 automatic cannon and APFSDS-T Mk 1 sub-caliber projectiles with armor penetration of 120 mm at a distance of 1.5 km at an initial speed of 1480 m/s, previously fell into the hands of Russian engineers.
Specialists of JSC "NIMI named after V.V. Bakhirev" on the basis of data ammunition can begin developing domestic 57-mm BOPS of a similar type in the shortest possible time to update the ammunition of 2A91 guns highly automated 2S38 "Derivation-PVO" air defense systems.
The calculated armor penetration of BOPS of this caliber with cores made of depleted uranium or tungsten in this case can reach 200 - 210 mm at a distance of 1500 m, the analyst emphasized.
This will allow the use of "Derivation-PVO" as an infantry fighting vehicle or a combat vehicle for tank support, but the SPAAG must be equipped with a stock Relikt dynamic protection kit based on 4S24 elements, or Kaktus.
Industrial Director of the Rostec cluster of conventional weapons Bekhan Ozdoev emphasized that the state corporation is doing everything possible to speed up the delivery of "Derivation-PVO" to the front.
Earlier www1.ru reported that Russian fiber optic FPV drones turned out to be completely invulnerable to electronic warfare at the front lines. The new type of UAV does not require careful selection of position and is protected from video signal interception.
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