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Bmpt “Terminator” ' FMSO.LEAVENWORTH.ARMY.MIL/OEWATCH Vol. 5 Issue #05 May 2015 Foreign Military Studies Office OEWATCH FOREIGN NEWS & PERSPECTIVES OF THE OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT The BMPT TERMINATOR FOREIGN NEWS & PERSPECTIVES OF THE OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT Special Look : BMPT “TERMINATOR” & ' Day Parade-70th Anniversary RUSSIA MIDDLE EAST INDO-PACIFIC ASIA 3 The BMPT Terminator: A New Type of Vehicle 35 Qassem Soleimani Voted Man of Year in Iran 60 India Evacuates Citizens from Yemen 5 Cyber Troops in the Russian Ministry of Defense 36 Iran Releases Qassem Soleimani Documentary – Indicators of Operational Strengths and 7 Details of Russia’s Spring 2015 Conscription 37 Commemorating Afghan Shi’ites Killed in Syria Weakness Campaign 38 Sisi’s Gamble 62 Philippines Police Commandos in Costly 9 Force Structure of Russian Military Units in 40 Tunisian Border Security Counterterror Raid Crimea 42 What is Yemen’s Southern Resistance? 65 Thailand Reinforces Relations 12 Commentary on Iran Nuclear Talks from Kremlin-Controlled Site AFRICA KOREA 13 Can Russia Rehabilitate Fighters 44 A One Sided Wall: Kenya Builds Security Barrier 67 North Korean Leader at Russian Victory Parade Who Return to Caucasus from Syria and Iraq? Somalia Doesn’t Want 14 Underlying Tensions in Armenia-Russia 45 Underlying Causes of Xenophobic Attacks in CHINA Relations South Africa 69 With Increasing Confidence, China’s Newest 15 The Northern Navy’s Two Step Strategy 46 Fragile Hope for a Fragile Peace: Submarine About to be Unveiled for Underwater Anti-Sabotage Operations Central African Republic 70 Will Pyongyang Allow Access to Other 16 Surprise Readiness Tests 47 New Nigerian President Buhari and the War on Countries in Pursuit of Rare Earth Elements? 18 Victory Day Parade-2015 Boko Haram 71 Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps 20 Extreme Sport: Arctic Airborne Exercises Continues to Grow 21 Ice Airstrip for Transport Jockeys LATIN AMERICA 72 China Considers Cyber Warfare and the Law of 22 Russian Artic Air Defense Upgrades 48 FARC is Still Considered a Terrorist Organization Armed Conflict 23 Russian Air Defense in the Arctic 49 Might Evo Morales’ Bolivarianism be 73 China’s Silk Road: Logic of the State Leaves 24 Russian Robots Vulnerable? Little Room for Market’s ‘Invisible Hand’ 25 Russian Command and Control Procedures 50 People Vote with Their Feet if They Can 75 A Chinese Perspective on Possible Lifting of under Adjustment 51 Latin America as an Emerging Cyber-Crime Iran Sanctions Threat Region EUROPE 52 Brazil is Home to the Largest Number CENTRAL ASIA 26 Heavy Shelling Near Mariupol of Cyber-Attacks in Latin America 76 Islamic State Causes Russia to Ramp up Central 27 Establishing Command and Control 53 Neologisms Born from Narco Culture in Mexico Asian Security over Volunteer Units in Ukraine 55 The Sinaloa Cartel Remains Intact Following 78 Russia Increases Military Presence in Tajikistan 29 Troubles for the G36 – the Standard Rifle of the Arrest of Chapo Guzman One Year Ago 79 A Paramilitary Organization in Kyrgyzstan? German Federal Armed Forces 56 Argentine Air Force Considering Gripen 80 The Capabilities of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Border Purchase Guards Detachment TURKEY 57 Chinese Vultures Circle as Petrobras Rots 81 The Impact of Indian Security Cooperation in 30 The Emergence of a Joint Arab Alliance? 58 Political Turmoil Heightens in Brazil Central Asia 32 Perspectives on Turkey’s support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen 33 The Future of Turkey’s UAVs 34 Turkey Facing Pressure for Role as a Militant Transit Point The Foreign Military Studies Office OE Watch (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Foreign News & Perspectives is part of the US Army Training and of the Operational Environment Doctrine Command G-2’s Operational Volume 5 | Issue 05 May | 2015 Environment Enterprise and for over 25 Regional Analysts and years has conducted open source research Expert Contributors on foreign perspectives of defense and security issues, emphasizing those topics Africa Robert Feldman that are understudied or unconsidered. Jacob Zenn Operational Environment Watch provides Middle East Michael Rubin translated selections and analysis from Lucas Winter a diverse range of foreign articles and Turkey Karen Kaya other media that our analysts and expert contributors believe will give military China, Korea Cindy Hurst and security professionals an added Youngjun Kim dimension to their critical thinking about Tim Thomas Jacob Zenn the Operational Environment. India, Southeast Asia Ivan Welch Mexico, South America Geoff Demarest Materials, outside of the original foreign press article, Brenda Fiegel under copyright have not been used. All articles published Kevin Grilo in the Operational Environment Watch are not provided in full, and were originally published in foreign (non-US) Central Asia Michael Rose media. Matthew Stein FMSO has provided some editing, format, and graphics to these articles to conform to organizational standards. Russia, Eastern Europe Chuck Bartles Academic conventions, source referencing, and citation Anna Borshchevskaya style are those of the author. Christina Chadwick The views expressed are those of the author and Adam Croft do not represent the official policy or position of the Ray Finch Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the Les Grau US Government. Release of this information does not James Harvey imply any commitment or intent on the part of the US Alyssa Jackson government to provide any additional information on any Emily Kangas topic presented herein. The Operational Environment Watch is archived and Editor-in-Chief Tom Wilhelm available at: http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil. Editors Ray Finch Harry Orenstein Contact FMSO at: Design Editor Hommy Rosado [email protected] RUSSIA The BMPT Terminator: A New Type of Vehicle March 2015 OE Watch Commentary: Russia’s recent announcement that the Armata heavy track chassis would be entering field trials as part of the T-14 main battle tank, and that the T-14 would be displayed in the annual May military parade has fueled some speculation about what other weapons systems could find themselves mounted on the Armata chassis. One idea is that the BMPT Terminator could be reborn, but this time on an Armata chassis. Despite the closeness of the acronyms, the BMPT is not classified by Russia as an infantry fighting vehicle (BMP— боевая машина пехоты (БМП), but instead as a tank combat support vehicle (BMPT) (боевая машина поддержки танков (БМПТ). The accompanying article Tank Combat Support Vehicle (BMPT) Source: VitalyKuzmin.net notes that the system is also referred as a combat fire support vehicle (BMOP— боевая машина огневой поддержки (БМОП). There Source: “Lev Romanov, “Recall the ‘Terminator,’” Oborona, March 2015, http://www. has been some speculation this system was oborona.ru/includes/periodics/armament/2015/0216/180015213/detail.shtml, accessed 15 developed to skirt restrictions on tanks and April 2015. infantry fighting vehicles found in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, A Total Recall of the ‘Terminator’ from which Russia has recently withdrawn, but is unlikely, as Russian armored personnel The civil war eastern Ukraine revived army specialist’s interest in (боевым машинам carriers (BTR—бронетранспортер (БТР) and поддержки танков (БМПТ) Tank Combat Support Vehicles (BMPTs), or as they are BMPs are designed to transport infantry squads now called боевым машинам огневой поддержки (БМОП) Combat Fire Support to the battlefield, dismount their squad, and Vehicles (BMOPs). During fighting in the Donbas, Infantry Fighting Vehicles (BMP) then begin fighting alongside their dismounted and Armored Personnel Carriers (BTRs) showed to have survivability problems in squad. The BMPT has only a five-person crew opposition to Anti-Tank Guided Missile (PTURs) and hand-held Antitank Grenades who are not intended to exit the vehicle. (RPGs). In turn, the main battle tanks [that these vehicles supported] were provided Development of the BMPT was in direct insufficient combat power to fend off enemies armed with PTURs and RPGs, especially response to Russia’s counterinsurgency in urban settings. experience in the North Caucuses. In 1995 the 131st Maykop Brigade was almost completely In conflicts it would be useful to have such a capability, but was earlier rejected wiped out when the armored column became by former officials of the Ministry of Defence… The BMPT “Terminator” was mired in the streets of Grozny as Chechen created by the designers of the Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Bureau grenadiers destroyed approximately 50 tanks, (Uralvagonzavod)…on the basis of the T-90A main battle tank. This vehicle was BMPs and BTRs. Russia quickly realized designed for effective suppression of enemy personnel equipped with grenade launchers, additional capabilities were required to engage anti-tank systems, and small arms. The BMOP is capable of firing on the move and and the enemies in urban environments. (As an can fill some tank roles such as the destruction of armored personnel carriers, infantry ad hoc measure, the Russians used Shilka fighting vehicles, pillboxes, bunkers and other hardened targets. self-propelled antiaircraft guns to provide additional firepower, as the Shilka’s guns The BMOP has great firepower. The unmanned turret has twin 2A42 30-mm automatic could traverse higher angles, enabling it to fire cannons (900 rounds of ammunition), a 7.62-mm machine gun, and four anti-tank upon targets on upper stories and roof tops, missiles “Ataka-T” with laser beam, and equipped with a thermobaric or shaped-charge unlike the tanks.) In addition to urban warfare warhead. In the front, two 30-mm automatic grenade launcher AGS-17D (with 300 applications, the adoption of a BMPT also rounds)…The crew of “Terminator” is composed of five members: commander, gunner, seems to make sense for more conventional the driver and two operators grenade launcher systems… operations. Technological improvements have made it possible for infantryman to carry antitank missiles (PTURs) capable of damaging (continued) or destroying even the most advanced main OE Watch May 2015 3 RUSSIA Continued: The BMPT Terminator: A New Type of Vehicle battle tanks.
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