Top 5 Russian weapons that make America take off its hat

Recently, Russia has developed a series of new combat vehicles for the army, which experts consider to have world-leading features.

Expert Kyle Mizokami of National Interest (NI) magazine has compiled a list of lethal military techniques that will be present in the equipment of the Russian army from now until 2030.

1. T-14 Armata main battle tank

First on this list is the T-14 main battle tank based on the Armata multipurpose tracked chassis.

The Russian Defense Ministry has now signed a contract to purchase the first batch of a hundred tanks for the Army. That number is enough to equip three tank battalions of divisions, each with 31 tanks, or to form a very strong main battle tank unit.

The creation of this tank is a technological leap forward for the Russian and world ground forces. This tank has a multi-layered passive armor system of modular design and explosive reactive armor, an active protection complex capable of deflecting or intercepting enemy anti-tank bullets and missiles.

In addition, the tank is equipped with super powerful firepower including 125mm gun (future 152mm gun), with ammunition that can use depleted uranium, giving it the strongest penetrating ability in the world.

T14 main battle tank and T15 infantry fighting vehicle of the Armata family

The most special feature is the unmanned automatic tank turret, which in the future can turn the T-14 into a fully automatic fighting machine.

Another advantage is that the price of each tank of this type is about 3.7 million USD, only half to one third of the price of American, European, and Japanese tanks. This is what will make Russian tanks dominate the world market in the future.

T-15 Armata infantry fighting vehicle

The author of the article assesses that the list should include another combat vehicle based on the Armata, the promising tracked armored vehicle T-15. The 1500-horsepower electric motor is located in the front compartment of the vehicle, which greatly increases the safety of the part where people sit.

Mr. Mizokami stressed that Russian ground forces have moved far beyond the days when unprotected infantry acted as “cannon fodder.” Today, thanks to the new T-15 combat vehicle, Russian infantrymen are among the best protected soldiers on the battlefield.

The T-15 Armata heavy combat vehicle is designed with a new combat module. The main armament consists of a 30 mm 2A42 automatic gun with 500 rounds, including 160 armor-piercing shells and 340 high-explosive fragmentation shells. The gun has a range of about 4,000 meters.

Russia's Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter has very powerful attack capabilities.

The two sides of the turret are equipped with 4 Kornet-EM anti-tank guided missiles with a maximum range of 8-10 km, 1 coaxial 7.62 mm machine gun with 2,000 rounds of ammunition.

The T-15 Armata infantry fighting vehicle is equipped with a modern fire control system, capable of automatically searching for targets in various spectral bands in active and passive modes. The T-15's fire control system can engage two targets simultaneously.

3. Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter

Like the US military with the AH-64E, Russian inventors decided that instead of creating a new attack helicopter design, they would upgrade the existing model with the most modern technologies, adapted to new combat conditions.

The Russian ground forces use the Ka-52 “Alligator” helicopter - a deeply modernized version of the Soviet Kamov Ka-50 helicopter and have also created a naval variant, the Ka-52K, with power unmatched by any Western aircraft.

The Ka-52 is heavily armed with 6 weapon pylons on both sides, with a total weapon load of up to 2,000 kg.

First, the Alligator is equipped with a 30 mm 2A42 automatic cannon mounted on the right side. The gun has an effective range of 1,500 m against ground targets, 2,500 m against air targets.

The launchers can be equipped with a mixture of weapons including: 2 B8V-20 80 mm unguided rocket launchers and 6 Vikhr semi-automatic laser-guided anti-tank missiles. The Vikhr missile has a range of 12 km, is equipped with a dual warhead that can penetrate 900 mm of homogeneous armor (after explosive reactive armor).

The Russian army plans to buy 140 "Alligators" for its ground forces. Along with powerful attack helicopters of the Mi-28N family and armed helicopters of the Mi-24, Mi-35 and Mi-17 families, the Russian ground forces have a very strong fire support system.

4. Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile

The list of "weapons of the future" includes the 9K720 "Iskander-M" operational-tactical ballistic missile system. The new product is a series of short-range ballistic missiles (about 500 km), developed at the beginning of the Cold War and later upgraded by the Russian army.

Russian Iskander tactical-operational ballistic missile

"Iskander-M" is distinguished by unprecedented accuracy, operational range and destructive power.

Just by guiding and controlling by inertia, it has a very high precision capability, the target error at a distance of 280km is 30m, and when using combined control of GPS/GLONASS satellite images and inertia, the maximum theoretical target error is only 1-2m!

Just 2 Iskander missiles can completely destroy an enemy command post, a fortified bunker cluster or a level 1 airport, paralyzing the enemy's command, defense and attack capabilities.

Not only that, the Iskander launch system is also capable of launching ground-attack cruise missiles such as the R-500 (P-500).

In the test on May 29, 2007, the Russian army successfully launched the R-500 cruise missile on the “Iskander”-M launch system with unimaginable results, many military experts have confirmed, the target error is less than 1m.

Kalashnikov's new super-precise heavy sniper rifle VSV-338

5. Kalashnikov sniper rifle

Closing the list is the Kalashnikov sniper rifle, which will replace the Dragunov rifle, which was in service with the Soviet and later the Russian army. At the “Army-2016” forum, Kalashnikov presented two of its latest sniper rifles.

At Army-2016 held in Kubinka from September 6-11, the famous Russian gun manufacturer Kalashnikov introduced new sniper rifle prototypes, remote-controlled machine gun systems such as SVK and VSV-338, modernized AK-100 machine guns with the "Obves" complex, new version of Lebedev 9x19 rifle prototypes...

With low cost, reliability, durability, suitability for all battlefields, and ease of maintenance and use, Kalashnikov's personal rifles and sniper rifles are still dominating the world market, even in Western markets such as the US.

According to Datviet