The T-14 Armata is Russia’s newest battle tank, featuring an unmanned turret and based on the Armata heavy military tracked-vehicle platform. Both the T-15 Infantry Fighting Vehicle and the T-16 Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV) are designed on the same platform.
It is the world’s first tank with a groundbreaking new layout. Previously, tanks the world over followed the conventional design, in which the crew sits in the hull and the turret close to munitions and fuel tanks, an obvious danger to those in the vehicle. The T-14’s revolutionary design significantly increases the survival rate for crews on the battlefield. For the first time, the crew of three (commander, gunner, and driver/mechanic) will sit in a protected pressurized compartment in the front part of the vehicle, separated from fuel and munitions.
The T-14 is equipped with a unified on-board information and control system (BIUS) for armored vehicles, designed to comply with the principles of network-centric warfare. The main element of this open architecture system is the digital information exchange network which covers all components, nodes, systems and subsystems or ‘communicants’. The network has a standard interface connecting all these communicants.
The BIUS receives information from all sensors in real time; the network can issue control commands to all motors and servomechanisms, while collecting status data from all control systems. In other words, the network has, in digital form, all the tools required to control and operate the tank. Through the BIUS, elements of the Joint Tactical Level Command and Control System (ESU TZ) are built into the vehicle, enabling it to create a unified reconnaissance and information field for battle groups that consist of different types of military forces – perfect for use in battalion tactical groups (BTGs), for example.
BTGs equipped with Armata-family vehicles can significantly reduce the number of command cycles, and have greater offensive capabilities and increased tactical flexibility.
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