BMPT «Terminator» fire support combat vehicle. File photoMOSCOW, May 18.The Russian armed forces used a platoon of tank support combat vehicles (BMPT) «Terminator» in combat operations in Ukraine, an informed source told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. «As part of a special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces used a platoon of BMPT «Terminator». tank platoons of BMPTs are involved in the fire destruction of Ukrainian positions, armored vehicles, crews of anti-tank missile systems,» the source said. According to him, the use of «Terminators» in a special operation will finally form the tactics of using these vehicles and determine their place in armored groups. He added that the experience of military operations in Ukraine shows the need for such vehicles in tank units to increase their combat stability. BPMTs have previously been used in combat operations in Syria. jpg» />Uralvagonzavod sent a train of the latest T-90M tanks to the troops. Terminators were put into service in Russia in 2018. The BMPT armament complex consists of two 30-mm 2A42 cannons, four launchers of 9M120-1 Ataka-type guided missiles with a laser guidance system, two AGS-17 grenade launchers and a 7.62-mm modernized Kalashnikov tank machine gun. The first contract for the supply of » Terminators» were signed into the Russian army during the scientific and technical forum «Army-2017». As Andrey Terlikov, the chief designer of the UKBTM machine development company (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern), noted in February last year, during 2021 the Russian Ministry of Defense had to decide on the serial purchase of BMPTs. Officially, such decisions have not been reported until today. The exact number of BMPTs in the Russian army is unknown. In November 2021, it was reported that by December 1, nine such vehicles would be included in the state of one of the tank regiments of the Central Military District. According to open sources, 10 such vehicles have been handed over to the Russian army.
