BREM-84 "Athlete" ( Ukrainian BREM-84 "Athlete" , also known under the name "product 478BP" [2] ) - an armored repair and recovery vehicle developed by the Kharkiv Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering named after A. Morozov on the basis of the main battle tank T-84U "Oplot" .
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| BREM-84 "Athlete" | |||||||||||||||
| Classification | ARV | ||||||||||||||
| Combat weight, t | 46 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Crew | 3 [1] | ||||||||||||||
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| The number of issued, pcs. | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | |||||||||||||||
| Body length mm | 8890 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Width mm | 3560 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Height mm | 2740 [1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Machine guns | 12.7 mm NSVT [1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Speed on the highway, km / h | 65 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Cross country speed, km / h | 40 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Cruising on the highway , km | 450 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Cruising cross country, km | 360 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Specific Power, l s / t | 26.1 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Fording , m | 1.8 (without preparation) [1] up to 5 (with preparation) [1] | ||||||||||||||
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Content
History
The manufacture of the first BREM-84 on the basis of the T-80UD tank [1] was carried out by KhKBM named after A. A Morozova [4] with the participation of the Zaporozhye electric locomotive repair plant Iskra [5] .
Demonstration model BREM-84 was built in 1997 [6] and shown in 2000 at the DSA-2000 weapon exhibition in Malaysia.
In 2007, the BREM-84 entered the state testing phase [7] .
November 24, 2008 ARV-84 was officially adopted by the Ukrainian army [8] . In December 2008, tests of the first sample continued. The cost of production of one ARV was estimated at 4 million hryvnia [9] .
On September 1, 2011, Thailand signed a contract with Ukrspetsexport Group for the manufacture and sale of 49 T-84 Oplot tanks and two BREM-84 tanks for the Thai armed forces [10] ; further, BREM-84 continued to be offered for export to other foreign customers [1] [11] .
Description
BREM-84 is armed with a 12.7-mm NSVT machine gun mounted on the commander’s hatch in an open type anti-aircraft machine gun (ammunition is450 rounds ), also 8 launchers were installed on the machine for firing 81-mm smoke grenades [12] [13] .
BREM is designed to prepare for the evacuation and towing of damaged samples of armored vehicles and equipment, welding, excavation, transportation of spare parts and consumables weighing up to 1.5 tons (cargo weighing up to 1.5 tons is carried out on a flat platform on the roof aft of the machine body) [13] .
Layout “Athlete” is divided into three compartments - an inhabited compartment for the crew, an engine compartment (with the main winch , gear reducers and tanks of the fuel system and hydraulic drive), and a motor-transmission compartment (in which a multi-fuel liquid-cooled diesel engine is installed) [2 ] .
On the fenders on the outside there are compartments of the auxiliary power unit with welding equipment and a cooling system, hydraulic panels of the attached equipment, auxiliary winch and battery compartment, as well as fuel system tanks [2] . On the left shelf there are boxes for equipment and tools, on the right supraharmonic shelf in the stowed position there is a crane arrow [13] .
The BREM crew consists of three people - the driver, the commander and the specialist fitter [13] .
BREM is equipped with a crane with a lifting capacity of 25 tons, two winches (the main one with a pulling force of up to 250 kN and the auxiliary one with a pulling force of 900 kg) and the auxiliary power unit D-120 with a capacity of 30 hp [13] .
The chassis of the BREM "Athlet" is completely identical to the T-84U "Oplot" tank. The caterpillar mover has 7 rubberized road wheels, 3 rubberized support rollers, a rear driving and front steering wheels on each side [13] .
Operator countries
- Ukraine - as of June 2014, one ARV-84 was made available to the faculty of military training of the National Technical University “Kharkov Polytechnic Institute” and was used in practical classes with senior students [14]
- Thailand - on September 1, 2011 were ordered and on July 29, 2018 the order is completed - 4 ARV-84 were delivered [15]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 BREM-84 Armored Repair And Recovery Vehicle Archived on December 8, 2015. // official site of SE "Promoboronexport"
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Alexander Basharov. The heirs of the “object 478B” // Military Industrial Courier, No. 36 (453) of September 12, 2012
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Volodymyr Tkach. Powerplant system // "Defense Express", No. 2, April - June 2014. pages 28-32
- ↑ Kharkov Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering A. A. Morozova, state-owned enterprise // Enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Russia and the CIS countries. Directory. ed. 4th, per. M., 2008. p. 398-399
- ↑ Iskra, State Electric Locomotive Repair Plant // Enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Russia and the CIS countries. Directory. ed. 4th, per. M., 2008. p. 140
- ↑ A. Tarasenko. Armored vehicles of Ukraine: results, potential, prospects ... // Journal "Technology and armament", No. 1, 2008. pp. 44-48
- ↑ White Paper 2007. Defense Policy of Ukraine p. 24
- ↑ Alexey Grishchenko. The Ministry of Defense adopted the "Athlete" armored car, which will be produced in Kharkov // "Status Quo" (Kharkov) on December 19, 2008
- ↑ In Kharkov, developed a machine for the repair of military equipment directly on the battlefield // "Today" on December 3, 2008
- ↑ Another batch of Ukrainian T-84 Oplot-T tanks arrived in Thailand // TsAMTO News of June 14, 2017
- ↑ The repair vehicle “Athlete” is reserved for all the vehicles // Defense Express magazine, No. 4, April 2018, page 37
- ↑ Repair and evacuation vehicle BREM "Athlete" is reserved // official site of GP "Ukroboronservis"
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sergiy Voronkov. BREM “Athlete” serially vipuskatimut near Harkov // “People’s Army”, No. 22 (5554) view 31 grass 2018. st. 9
- ↑ Guards cadets study on modern models of armored vehicles // UNIAN from June 23, 2014
- ↑ The last batch of BM “Oplot-T” and BREM-84 “Athlete” tanks arrived in Thailand
Links
- Armored repair and recovery vehicle BREM Athlete // official site of the Kharkov Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering named after A. A. Morozova
- BREM Atlet / "Army Guide"
- BREM-84 / Armor site of Vasily Chobitka