"Armata" will receive power supercapacitors

As reports the internet-the newspaper "Izvestiya", the Russian war machine of the family, "Armata" planned to install a mobile power plant. These products are supposed to be placed between the batteries and the engine tank. They are designed to perform instant and smooth engine start in the cold in -50 degrees, and the rotary mechanisms of the towers, stabilization of weapons and command and control systems. The centerpiece of the new power plants are supercapacitors — devices that are able to accumulate a large amount of electricity even from the discharged battery and some time to feed the onboard systems before you start the main engine. Supercapacitor leads to compensation of the energy loss caused by repeated on and off of the motor and increases the service life of the battery.

For the latter, the figure is several thousand cycles of charging-discharge. The supercapacitor is a million times more. Their developer and producer is the group of companies renova. At the moment they are mounted urban electric buses and locomotives. According to development director high-tech assets of renova, Mikhail lifshitz, today, a new device proposed by the military, which studied the possibility of use as standard equipment modernized Russian tanks and armored vehicles of the family "Armata".

We conducted field tests of the supercapacitor for cold starting diesel tank. Machine several days stood in the cold. Its batteries have completely lost the capacity. However, with mobile power on the supercapacitor (its size did not exceed an ordinary diplomat) we were able several times to start a cold motor.

The use of such devices allows half to release the battery compartment of the tank under any other payload. As explained by the expert in the field of armored vehicles sergey suvorov, each liter of the internal space leads to an increase in equipment weight at 100 kg. Therefore, the goal of designers is to reduce the internal volume of the machine, allowing you to reduce weight, and for the account if necessary to increase the amount of fuel and ammunition. Currently in tank is a fight for fire safety. This leads to the rejection of the use of hydraulic systems to stabilize the weapon and turret. They are unreliable and at the slightest damage lead to the undermining of the tower.

The latest steel is also very heavy. For them to turn 90-180 degrees put additional power plant — diesel generators 10 kw. Americans the system is in an external box behind the tower. In Iraq there were many situations when he destroyed the machine-gun fire.

Was leaking oil and got directly to the engine compartment. In result the tank was binding. These losses americans call "Secondary signs". But the fact remains that the gun inciting a tank. Application of super capacitor allows you to replace the hydraulics of the magnetic system of the reversal of the tower, which provides quick turn of the gun and allows you to run the main engine to enable the command and control system machine, that is, to reduce the transition time in mode begovatova.