Turret machine gun mount is fixed on light armored vehicles and designed to engage light armored vehicles and aerial targets (helicopter) at the distances up to 2000 m in day and night conditions.

BPU-12.7 is autonomous, closed, non-stabilized, remote controlled from the operator's station.

Fire control system composition:

• colored video camera

• thermal imaging camera

• laser range-finder

• Guidance drives: Electromechanic, without manual backup

• Guidance in elevation and azimuth: 0.1...6 deg/s

• Quick transfer speed in elevation and azimuth: 35 deg/s, minimum

• Lock in elevation and in azimuth: Mechanical

• Method of signal transfer from chassis: Collector ring

• Sight type: TV with thermal imager and range finder

• Operator's station: Monitor control panel (joystick)

• Colored video camera has two fields of view - wide and narrow

• Spectral operative range of thermal imaging camera: 8...12 micron

• Laser range-finder wave length: 1.06 micron

• Target of tank type acquisition range by colored video camera: 2 500 m min in wide FOV and 5 000 m min in narrow FOV

• Target of tank type recognition distance by colored video camera: 1 500 m min in wide FOV and 3 000 m min in narrow FOV

• Angle of view of colored video camera in narrow FOV: 1.8°±10% min in azimuth and 1.37°±10% min in elevation

• Angle of view of colored video camera in wide FOV: 6.8°±10% min in azimuth and 5°±10% min in elevation

• Target of tank type acquisition range at the object thermal contrast not less than 2°C by thermal imaging camera: 3 500 m min

• Target of tank type recognition range at the object thermal contrast not less than 2°C by thermal imaging camera: 1 500 m min

• Thermal imaging camera angle of view: 6.2°±10% min in azimuth and 5°±10% min in elevation

• Target of tank type rangefinding: 160...5 000 m min