Russian specialists are developing several options for expanding air defense capabilities. It is planned to create a complex to combat UAVs on the base of the Typhoon-VDV armored vehicle, said Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the Rostec complex of conventional weapons and ammunition.
The use of 57-mm or 30-mm artillery shrapnel rounds with controlled remote detonation based on the Derivation Air Defense and Typhoon-VDV complexes is being considered
Technical characteristics of the Typhoon-VDV armored vehicle:
- Increased anti-mine protection (withstands the detonation of a bomb under the wheels up to 6 kg in TNT equivalent)
- Wheel formula 4 by 4
- Diesel engine, power not less than 258 hp
- 6P7K machine gun, caliber 7.62 mm
- Possibility of landing with parachutes
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