1. DESIGNATION

The Automated Self-propelled Artillery Battalion Fire Control System ASABFCS “Vulcan-C”  is a universal system, designed to control the fire of a self-propelled artillery battalion(SAB) including up to 4 batteries, each consisting up to 8 self-propelled artil-lery gun mounts (SAGM), of mechanized brigades.
 

2. COMPOSITION OF THE SYSTEM ASABFCS “Vulcan-C” 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;

-self-propelled artillery gun mounts(SAGM) – up to 8 pcs.

All fire control vehicles are of one and the same type and are interchange-able

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 trans-mission 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 SAGM is carried out through W-LAN network.

Picture 1 shows the schematic diagram of the organization of control.

AMLRBFCS “Vulcan – C”

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.

Fire control and battery fire unit (SAGM) control post.

Deployed at a range 2-4 km from the command-observation post. The fire control post is deployed at 50-150 m from the SAGM.