MOSCOW, June 4 (AVN) - The local Institute of Steel will exhibit a dynamic protection system for the BMP-3 IFV at the VTTV-Omsk 2001 international arms show that starts on Wednesday, Alexander Yegorov, the institute's deputy director for research, told the Military News Agency.
The system comprises containers of dynamic protection and combined armoured and lattice shields. The system defends the IFV and its crew from being damaged by RPG grenades and PG-3 antitank grenades flying at all course firing angles in the zones of aerodynamic protection with 0.8 probability and in the zones protected with shields with no less than 0.5 probability. Moreover, the system can protect the vehicle from 12.7mm armour-piercing bullets in cases of popshooting as well as from 14.5mm calibre bullets shot at the range of 50 metres.
The VTTV-Omsk show will also feature several other systems of suspended and dynamic protection of ordnance. All of them have been tesed in the troops and proved efficient in close combat.