MELITOPOL- Modernized BRM-1K reconnaissance combat vehicles appeared in the special operation zone, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.Now the crews are mastering them at training grounds in the Zaporozhye region.”New equipment has arrived – BRM-1K, and we have been training since December. <…> The equipment is new, electronics. <…> Everything works, everything is fine, and there are no difficulties, since we previously trained on the BMP, and now everything is easier: both loading ammunition and disassembling the gun, it’s not difficult, you need a little practice. <…> All the nuances have already been studied, and it hits exactly: where it aimed, it hit there, ”one of the military told RIA Novosti.The BRM-1K is a combat vehicle based on the Soviet
BMP-1 with an uninhabited turret equipped with a 7.62 mm PKT coaxial machine gun and a 30 mm automatic cannon from the BTR-82A. Unlike an infantry vehicle, part of the landing squad is occupied by special electronic equipment and complexes for monitoring and collecting information necessary for reconnaissance from the battlefield.The contract for the modernization of vehicles of the Ministry of Defense and
Uralvagonzavod was signed in 2020, and reports of the first deliveries to the army appeared in May 2022.
Source: RIA.RU
