sepheronx wrote:TR1 wrote:What project hasn't been going on for years in Russia ? (and other nations to be fair).
It is a very ambitious project.
Vihr is an excellent peacetime weapon, cheap missiles allow realistic training.
Plus the launchers have larger capacity than the god-awfull looking vertical Attaka mount on the Ka-52.
I wonder how effective the Vikhr is in real time situations. I imagine it would be quite effective, especially in dealing with islamists. But I wonder how effective it is in a military strike against a well armed enemy like Georgia.
"Well armed" Georgia was smoked in just five days (in reality no more than 80 hours of effective battlefield actions) in a combined arms operation in 2008, committing no more than 10000 effectives and avoiding to employ any lately inducted or more crucial weaponry.
Georgian MBTs was taken care of by 1990 era domestic MBTs, in a very reduced tactical tempo and with almost absence of friendly losses.
Performances of Vikhr-1 ATGM against a similar opponent would be totally not-influential.
GarryB wrote:Range and speed and penetration better than Hellfire... should be pretty good actually.
It is fully dual purpose so with a flick of a switch before launch the HEAT warhead is changed to a proximity HE Frag warhead for use against aerial targets or soft ground targets, for not say helicopters and surveiullance/attack UAVs which can become easily prey of this missile as well.
Exactly (4:12 and 4:50)
Moreover, to the contrary of the expensive and..... highly ECM-prone foreign samples of the so called "fire and forget" missiles, you do not risk to see your entire missile salvo go literally to the hell when merely a pair of enemy APCs deploy a mullti-spectral 3D6M aerosol screen .
If any, missiles such as Vikhr-1 show its maximum "value" just against very advanced enemies, with ground vehicles equipped with advanced ECM and multi-spectral battlefield obscurants , for not say helicopters and surveillance/attack UAVs which can easily fall prey of this missile as well.