1. DESIGNATION 

The automated towed artillery battalion fire control system “Vulcan-B” is a universal system designed to control the fire of artillery battalion including up to 4 batteries each consisting of up to 8 towed guns.
 

2. COMPOSITION OF THE SYSTEM ATABFCS “Vulcan-B” consists of the following components:

a) Command-observation post of the battalion commander consisting of:

-fire control vehicle – 1 pc;

-portable reconnaissance post – up to 4 pcs.

b) Up to 4 independent batteries fire control systems consisting of:

-battery command-observation post – fire control vehicle – 1 pc;

-portable reconnaissance post – up to 4 pcs.

-battery fire control post – fire control vehicle – 1 pc;

-towed guns – up to 8 pcs.

All fire control vehicles are of one and the same type and are interchangeable.

3. ORGANIZATION OF CONTROL AND COMBAT USAGE
The control is organized on the basis of a tactical LAN network. The data transmission between the command-observation post and the fire control post is carried out by means of VHF transceivers with a digital channel at data transmission speed of 16 KB/sec. The handheld reconnaissance terminal, the onboard computers and the hand terminals for guns control use a transmitter-receiver for W-LAN network. The transmitter-receiver (W-LAN) covers a distance of up to 900 meters at data transmission speed of 1 MB/sec. The data transmission between the portable reconnaissance post and the command-observation post and between the fire control post and the towed guns is carried out through W-LAN network. Picture 1 shows the schematic diagram of the organization of control
AMLRBFCS “Vulcan – B”
Command-observation post.
Deployed at 1-3 km from the forward line.
Portable reconnaissance post.
Deployed at a range of 0,5-1,0 km from the forward line.
Battery fire control and fire unit (guns) control.
Deployed at 2-4 km from the command-observation post. The fire control post is deployed at 50-150 m from the guns.