The infantry wheel car, created on the BMERANG platform, which Russia showed at the international exhibition of weapons and military equipment Milex-2021 in Belarus, is one of the examples of the future weapon, the American magazine The National Interest writes.
The publication recalls that for the first time this car was shown to the general public in May 2015 at the Victory Parade in Moscow, after which the developers needed the time to eliminate comments to it concerning, in particular, the improvement of the hull and improving buoyancy. “Nevertheless, it seems that the problems have been solved,” the magazine recognizes.
The National Interest notes that due to the location of the engine in the front of the “Boomerang” received a wide back hatch. The publication recalls that this combat vehicle is equipped with a remote controlled T-15 Tower “Armat”.
Magazine, calling “Boomerang” “future war”, reminds that on the basis of this wheel platform, you can also create, in particular, an armored personnel carrier.
In April 2020, the general director of Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev said that Russia from international sales of armored vehicles on the BMERANG platform can earn a billion dollars.
In January 2018, the first photographs of the interior of the prospective Russian Wheel Platform “Boomerang” were published in Instagram “Military Industrial Companies”.