Passage-1 (robot sapper)

2022: Start of using a robot sapper on a tank chassis

On July 20, 2022, it became known that Russia, as part of its military special operation in Ukraine, began to use a robot sapper on a tank chassis. We are talking about the new Russian remotely controlled robotic demining complex "Passage-1."

As a source in the power structures told TASS, "Passage-1" with an engineering tank mine trawl TMT-S is successfully used to mine the territories of Donbass. At the same time, the interlocutor did not specify in which area the complex is involved.

Russia began to use a robot sapper on a tank chassis in Ukraine

According to the agency, "Passage-1" was developed by specialists of the All-Russian Research Institute "Signal" (part of the NPO "High-Precision Complexes" of the state corporation "Rostec") in the interests of the engineering troops of the Russian Federation. It was created on the basis of an armored demining vehicle BMR-3MA. It belongs to the family of combat vehicles created by the Uralvagonzavod concern on the chassis of the T-90 tank. Crew - two people, can be supplemented by three sappers.

The complex creates passages up to 4.5 meters wide in combat conditions for military columns on mined areas of the area in both crew and non-crew (remote and automatic) operating modes. According to the developers, the technical capabilities of the machine allow you to waste mines installed in snow or soil, neutralize mines lying on the surface, as well as equipped with radio burners. Automatic control mode allows you to perform a task on a given route without operator intervention. Its command post is based on the Kamaz escort machine, while the communication channel is reliably protected.

The robot sapper completed state tests in 2016, but until July 2022 it was not reported about its use during real hostilities, TASS notes.^[1]

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