BTR "Boomerang"
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International exhibition of arms and military equipment RAE 2013 in Nizhny Tagil, and had to dispel all the rumors about creating a promising wheeled platform on the program "Boomerang." It was assumed that closed the show, will demonstrate the first prototype of the BTR "Boomerang" for the prime minister of Russia. However, after the end of the exhibition, new alarms. Because of the messages "Military-Industrial Courier," it was reported that wheeled armored vehicle created by the program "Boomerang" was presented only in the form layout.
The first prototypes should appear only in the second half of 2014. It is noted that unlike the wheeled APCs "Boomerang" presented mock-ups, promising tracked armored vehicles under the program "Kurganets" fully implemented, and are ready to go.
Also ambiguous is the publication of French-Russian hybrid called "Atom". On the basis of the reports of the Russian Corporation "Uralvagonzavod", the new wheeled combat vehicles will be offered to the armed forces of Russia as a perfect analogue of existing in-service tracked infantry vehicles and armored personnel carriers. prototype infantry fighting vehicle "Atom" was presented in Nizhny Tagil RAE 2013, where her and Dmitry Medvedev inspected.
He expressed interest in the project and said innovation in the process of designing cars. Just a few months-a UralVagonZavod and Renault developed a conceptual design of a new armored personnel carriers and submitted it to the show. The appearance of such a machine and the speed of the decision to create it may also indirectly indicated as an alternative to the project "Boomerang."
And the other day there was a message from the representatives of the Military-Industrial Company (MIC), which announced the start of construction of the new BTR-82A for the Russian army. Expected construction from 200 to 300 units per year. Although Rifle developed by the program "Boomerang" was to be the receiver of machines such as the BTR-80 and BTR-82. remains unclear situation with the development program to create wheeled platform promising middleweight, developed by the same Company "Military-Industrial Company" under the code "Boomerang".
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