Special Purpose Motorcycles: Kalashnikov Prepares New Equipment for Attack Troopers

December 4 2024 10 490 8

The realities of the SVO dictate new conditions for manufacturers of weapons and military equipment in Russia. The Kalashnikov Concern highly appreciated the experience of using motorcycles by our attack aircraft and developed new models taking into account the accumulated experience.

The defense concern's information resources report that the new electric combat motorcycle (BME) is already being tested in Russian units in the border areas of the SVO zone.

The BME demonstrated a number of characteristics that are important in combat conditions: fast movement, maneuverability, lightness, relative silence, low visibility, no glow in thermal devices, the ability to evade drones and other weapons

– says the Kalashnikov press release.

The concern's general director, Alan Lushnikov, noted that some types of equipment, which were previously considered only auxiliary, have now become more in demand due to their tactical advantages.

In the future, the Russian Armed Forces may receive other models of motor vehicles for the frontline from the concern. Kalashnikov is upgrading existing models and creating new types of bikes to meet the current requirements of the military. Among other things, the concern is working on a motorcycle with a hybrid engine that could be used when there is no possibility of recharging the batteries.

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Vladimir Tuzakov

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4 December 2024 20: 09

Note. Since it is allowed to create two-wheeled vehicles for assault and other actions, then, firstly, the frame should be "approximately like a scooter", then it is more convenient to get off and sit down crouched, without standing up to your full height (throw your leg over) to get behind the wheel. Moreover, the front foot shield can be armored. Secondly, it is necessary to provide a place for transporting a second person, especially a wounded person or cargo, with opening supporting fences for the rear seat. The placement of units is not compact (Electric engine, battery) and not thought out, Something does not add up with the camouflage, more for the desert? If you create, then a sufficiently adapted means, while we see in the image a means created hastily (under the sawing of money?).
Hiker

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4 December 2024 20: 54

Question for Putin.
Where are the Russian Ural motorcycles?
1. Vladimir Tuzakov
  
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  6 December 2024 19: 08
  
  Reply. "Ural", K-750 and others, this is the middle of the last century and bridge construction has advanced far. There is no need to go back and complain, but to ask where the modern two-wheeled (three-wheeled) motor vehicles are, you need to...
steelmaker

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4 December 2024 21: 05

We have a "mobik" on vacation. He rides these very motorbikes there. He is absolutely delighted, know-how. They drove up to the trenches, threw grenades, painted them with bursts, etc. But when I started asking simple questions, he did not know how to answer and explain. For example: Why throw grenades when there are "Solntsepyoks"? When there is artillery? Why storm a house, a populated area, when these assaults leave only ruins and ashes? Isn't it easier to immediately turn everything into ruins and ashes, and not risk lives with assaults?
Now another one of our "mobikes" is on vacation. In artillery. Half a year in one position. They give a target - destroy it. Attack aircraft take up trenches. The Ukrainian artillery and UAVs start shooting at them as well. And so they grind each other in a circle. And why? And there was no order to attack! This is how they have been fighting for the third year. And do you think we will quickly finish the SVO with such mobikes?
1. Dima
  
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  4 December 2024 23: 13
  
  The end date of the SVO does not depend on these bikes. This is a war of attrition, reminiscent of WW1 on the European front, when the front line moved very slowly and did not directly affect the end of the war.
vlad127490

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5 December 2024 00: 19

Electric on LBS. Is there electricity there? This looks more like a money grab. Make regular scooters with good mufflers, no one will hear them 20 meters away. It seems that they can't make anything serious, so they make the simplest. In China, you can buy thousands of motorcycles and mopeds for any taste, these are civilian products.
Muscool

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5 December 2024 08: 21

Yeah, our soldiers aren't even given piss loaves of bread to move around in, they walk around with Chinese civilian radios, tools, fuel, building materials, all at their own expense, and here's some kind of motorcycle that's 99% made up of imported parts, another wonder weapon that will never be in the military in large numbers.
Sergey Latyshev

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5 December 2024 09: 14

Yes, something like a moped would also be suitable.