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    Post  GarryB Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:45 am

    You make a great point about the inevitable difficulty infrared homing missiles will more frequently encounter with the deployment of the countermeasures you mentioned.

    Don't get me wrong, I think IIR guided missiles have interesting potential, but aircraft already have DIRCMs and I the Russians have various ground based systems to interfere with optical guidance systems too... which is not to say everyone will have them everywhere... but IIR sensors are best against vehicles... whether it is a tank or an aircraft and they certainly offer fire and forget potential...

    Another advantage of QWIP sensors is that they are just like a CCD chip array in a digital camera that can be sensitive to a range of optical frequencies including IR and UV and visible light... TV guided missiles and systems are actually pretty useful and very much under rated... especially moving targets...

    With mass production bringing the costs down pretty soon you could print them out like CDs for a dollar each like a cheap camera on a cellphone...

    The thing is that if the guys on the front line are just going to be shooting at a bush with a sniper in it, or a room in a building with a MG position then super high tech guidance is not only not useful, it is a drawback because it does not help much, and you still have to pay for it.

    Instead of putting an IR sensor on the nose of the missile, it makes more sense to spend 20 times that and put a super high quality high performance IIR sensor on the launcher with a built in laser range finder. That way your soldiers can sit on the battlefield spotting enemy targets and lasing their distance... together with the troops location and the angle and range to the enemy and take an image of the target and transmit that data up to HQ... you don't need to destroy any of them... the value is passing back ID and location to artillery... somewhere 10km away a 2S1 with the new comms and digital upgrades will then start firing on your targets... real cheap and safe from return fire. You could monitor the attack and call in fire corrections or the artillery unit could launch a UAV and use that to mark targets for guided shells in top attack mode...

    I concede that the Kornet's 8km range, power and guidance is more suited for anti-tank operations especially when infantry mobility is factored in -- as you point out.

    The two things we know they are working on is a medium range very small fire and forget missile for use on armour in a retractable mount with what appears to be half a dozen ready to fire rounds, and an upgraded SPG9 type weapon.

    The former might be a javelin type missile, while the latter is more like an extended range RPG for cheap simple use against enemy positions from a safe distance.

    Personally I think for the medium range weapon a beam riding guidance system and high flight speed would make it much better than an IIR guided model that would be fire and forget.

    I have seen a few designs of jamming weapons... one for jamming UAVs, but also one for jamming optical systems using a laser... Javelin like guidance might not be of any use against a similar level enemy... and against third world countries it is using a Rolls Royce to plough a field... too expensive and not actually the best choice for the job...

    I was under the impression that Russia was thinking of introducing a Fire & Forget missile (Baikal) and that this was to be a replacement for the Metis-M1 for special forces.

    The only applications for it I have seen is as a mini weapon on IFVs in a multi tube retractable launcher... but if they were going to introduce a fire and forget IIR guided ATGM then it would make sense to use it in special forces units only... would be too expensive and wasteful for general issue.

    Reducing the size and weight of electro-optical sighting systems would make the Metis-M1 even better, so I hope they do precisely just that; a fiber-optic link would also be a welcome feature. And no, I'm not advocating for adding IIR/CCD systems to the missile.

    I see what you are doing there... but still think a laser beam riding guidance system to replace the wire, and reduce the warhead and greatly increase the speed and add a terminal dive to the trajectory to get a diving top attack weapon on the cheap with a high flight speed shortening the engagement time to a minimum.

    Yes, that would be better than using the drones to designate targets; you could probably use laser-guided S-8 rockets as well.

    Yes... they are talking about new modular rocket pods for aircraft that are square that include 80mm, 122mm, and the old 57mm rockets.... the latter were dropped because of their very light payload, but with guidance then the small payload actually becomes a virtue because there is less collateral damage around the place.

    From memory the HE payload of the 57mm rockets was about 800 grammes, so about 5-10 times the mass of an average hand grenade... but with improved accuracy that could easily get most jobs done against enemy forces or light unarmoured vehicles.

    Even if the 57mm rockets are smoke rounds to mark targets, or illumination rounds in the mountains...

    The main advantage of the 57mm rockets were numbers as the 16 and 32 round pods were pretty standard... the former for light platforms and the latter for helos and aircraft... compared with 7 shot pods and 20 shot pods respectively for the 80mm rockets.

    That's a very good point and I really have no answer to that, especially in relation to the general army. SF and Commandos are usually equiped with more capable, more expensive equipment, and so such an expense could be more easily justified for these armed units.

    Wasn't trying to be smart... one option would be smart fusing to make the warheads dual purpose... a normal HEAT round needs to have the fuse in a very specific place to get it to form the plasma beam, and of course the cone lining is often made of fairly exotic materials that are not especially cheap, and there is no real fragmentation effect from most HEAT rounds, but with smart fusing you could detonate it from a different place so it just goes off like a bomb and spreads shrapnel all over the place. I believe the Vikhr missile has such a warhead and before launch you flick a switch for either armoured target or soft aircraft or ground target to determine how the warhead works.... ie HEAT or proximity fused HE Frag....

    Perhaps the best option would be to have warheads you can unscrew... so carry 3-4 HEAT warheads as well as 10 missiles with HE Frag warheads and in the field if there is enemy present you could remove the HE Frag warheads and replace them with HEAT warheads. With special forces it might actually be useful to have an adapter that you can attach the spare warheads to and use the HE Frag warheads as mines and the HEAT warheads as anti armour mines designed to attack armour from the side or below...

    Even the usually extravagent US Military has conceded that the Javelin is simply not cost-effective and have consequently ordered recoiless rifles for their troops in Afghanistan. The Carl Gustav has made a comeback.

    On paper it sounds clever, but when you hand it to ordinary troops in a combat area where the enemy simply have no armour it really does not make sense... I mean if each shot is destroying a 2 million dollar tank then you could say it is not so bad, but when it blows up a taleban soldier and a bush... if you had walked over there and said.... look this missile costs $500,000 dollars... I'll give you $50,000 US dollars to go home and forget about this war he would probably be very keen... especially considering the alternative is to get blown up.

    The CG is a great weapon and seriously under estimated in most western forces... it has a wide range of very capable rounds and is relatively cheap.

    The Russians have an enormous range of shoulder fired weapons that do pretty much the same thing and the reintroduction of the SPG-9 makes a lot of sense... especially with new ammo and new sights.

    120mm mortars are also very useful in mountains too.
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    Post  dino00 Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:42 pm

    The firing range of the missile complex "Metis" will increase to 3 km

    The anti-tank missile complex Metis-M1 will improve its technical performance by one and a half times. Currently, work is underway to upgrade the complex, as a result of which it is planned to increase its range from 2 to 3 kilometers.

    For work that will last at least two years, allocated 90.18 million rubles. They are conducted under the code "Metis-M2" in the framework of development work on the "development of anti-tank guided missiles 9M131M1-1 and guided missiles 9M131FM1 increased range (3 km)." It is reported by "Interfax" with reference to the data posted on the portal of public procurement.

    Metris-M1 ATGM was adopted in 2016. At the same time, its mass production has been conducted since 2004 for both domestic and foreign customers. It is designed to destroy modern tanks, equipped with dynamic protection, lightly armored targets, pillboxes and bunkers in adverse weather conditions. The complex is equipped with landing troops, infantry and motorized rifle formations.

    https://tvzvezda.ru/news/opk/content/201812021023-2lgk.htm
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    Post  GarryB Sun Dec 02, 2018 2:13 pm

    That will be interesting... I wonder how they will achieve the range increase?

    If it was up to me I would probably drop the wire guidance and use a smart lofted trajectory laser beam riding guidance to allow a climb on launch and a dive onto target with a trajectory formed by automatic control of the guidance laser beam that creates a terminal top attack flight profile.

    Dropping the wire guidance means higher flight speed and less restrictions on flight manouver performance, while a lofted trajectory should allow an increase in range especially if wings are added for a glide flight profile to target.

    The launcher could have the missile angled upwards at perhaps 45 degrees except for close range engagements and a wide field of view camera can track the missile and shift the guidance laser beam to create a lofted flight profile to extend flight range and create a diving top attack flight profile to target the thinner top armour of the target.

    This would allow a reduction in the size of the warhead from the 950mm penetration warhead currently used to a smaller warhead with better under armour performance... ie a thicker plasma beam that blows more material into the target to a shallower depth of armour.

    This should greatly increase performance without excessively increasing the price per missile, making it affordable to deploy it widely like RPG-7 launchers...
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    Post  Walther von Oldenburg Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:51 pm

    You would need a HESH warhead for that - largest HEAT jetstreams are index finger thick.

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    Post  GarryB Mon Dec 03, 2018 1:40 am

    HESH is worse than useless... totally ineffective against any sort of spaced armour and performance dramatically reduced with anti spall linings like Kevlar and aramide fibre.

    The thickness of the plasma beam can be varied by the shape of the shape charge... the Soviets had a big roadside HEAT weapon that would punch a 80mm wide hole in the side of a vehicle up to 50m distant to a depth in armour of 400mm...
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    Post  George1 Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:18 pm

    Russia’s latest anti-tank missile system to enter state trials


    Russia’s latest Kornet-D1 anti-tank missile system designated for the Airborne Force will undergo state trials this year


    MOSCOW, January 9. /TASS/. Russia’s latest Kornet-D1 anti-tank missile system designated for the Airborne Force will undergo state trials this year, the Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

    "In 2019, the latest Kornet-D1 anti-tank missile system designated as armament for artillery and paratroops’ units will undergo state trials before it is accepted for service in the Airborne Force. The self-propelled anti-tank missile system based on the chassis of the BMD-4M airborne assault vehicle that is landed by the parachute method will possess unique capabilities by the range and the accuracy of its fire," the ministry said.

    Paratroopers will fire the new precision weapon from the vehicle’s fighting compartment remotely, the ministry stressed.

    "The trials of the new weapon developed for anti-tank units of the Airborne Force’s artillery will be held at several ranges of the Russian Defense Ministry. The anti-tank missile system will be among the first most advanced precision weapons developed for the Airborne Force’s artillery formations and will considerably enhance the firepower of airborne assault and parachute units," the ministry said.


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    http://tass.com/defense/1039193
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    Post  GarryB Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:03 am

    Nice, so they will get a vehicle that has an automated launcher for the new Kornet ATGM, which has an anti armour range of 8.5km and a 10km range with HE warheads.

    Previously they had the infantry troop transport BMD with an external launcher on it for ATGMs, which is really not as good.
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    Post  GarryB Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:39 am

    Nice, but that introduces the same issue I have with the Tigr mounted Kornet system... those two turrets block each other from covering 360 degrees.

    I understand that a single mount extended has full coverage 360 degrees, and I agree being a tracked vehicle it can turn in position on its tracks, while having two separate launchers means two missiles can be fired at two different targets at once, I think some sort of huge arm structure like a crane arm could be used to raise the optics and guidance system and perhaps a rifle calibre machine gun, to give better views from behind cover with perhaps the two quad launchers but with missiles angled upwards to launch the missiles up into the line of sight between the sighting system and the target...

    Maybe I don't know what I am thinking...

    I like the fact that there are 8 ready to fire missiles and that there are in fact two separate guidance and control systems.

    What I don't like is the fact that these two systems are side by side like machine gun turrets on an early T-26 tank... which limits their use to less than 360 degrees when both are extended up.

    In the image above they seem to be stepped or staggered rather than side by side which might improve field of view issues... but still not super happy... yeah I do need to lighten up.

    The optics and guidance components seem to be below the missiles so during guidance the entire load of four rounds and top cover are exposed to enemy view during the engagement.

    Separating the optics/guidance from the missiles means you can raise the optics and find targets... raise the missiles... launch and then retract the missiles and replace any missile launched with a reload and be ready to fire if need be with the other set of missiles extended.

    If you do it from behind cover or just concealment, all the target will see is the guidance component sticking up from behind something...

    As I said previously, they are going from AT-5 from a manual launcher to this automated system... I should be more impressed.
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    Post  magnumcromagnon Fri Jan 11, 2019 1:14 am

    GarryB wrote:Nice, but that introduces the same issue I have with the Tigr mounted Kornet system... those two turrets block each other from covering 360 degrees.

    I understand that a single mount extended has full coverage 360 degrees, and I agree being a tracked vehicle it can turn in position on its tracks, while having two separate launchers means two missiles can be fired at two different targets at once, I think some sort of huge arm structure like a crane arm could be used to raise the optics and guidance system and perhaps a rifle calibre machine gun, to give better views from behind cover with perhaps the two quad launchers but with missiles angled upwards to launch the missiles up into the line of sight between the sighting system and the target...

    Maybe I don't know what I am thinking...

    I like the fact that there are 8 ready to fire missiles and that there are in fact two separate guidance and control systems.

    What I don't like is the fact that these two systems are side by side like machine gun turrets on an early T-26 tank... which limits their use to less than 360 degrees when both are extended up.

    In the image above they seem to be stepped or staggered rather than side by side which might improve field of view issues... but still not super happy... yeah I do need to lighten up.

    The optics and guidance components seem to be below the missiles so during guidance the entire load of four rounds and top cover are exposed to enemy view during the engagement.

    Separating the optics/guidance from the missiles means you can raise the optics and find targets... raise the missiles... launch and then retract the missiles and replace any missile launched with a reload and be ready to fire if need be with the other set of missiles extended.

    If you do it from behind cover or just concealment, all the target will see is the guidance component sticking up from behind something...

    As I said previously, they are going from AT-5 from a manual launcher to this automated system... I should be more impressed.

    You might be overthinking it. From my understanding one launcher can be lifted and the other can set in the rest position. Just take a look at the Kornet-D system on the Tiger-M platform. As seen here, at the :58 second mark through the 1:16 mark, the launchers show to have independent lifting and rotating mechanisms.



    Nothing stops them from just lifting one launcher above, while the other one is below, for the purpose of persistence as well as 360 degree coverage. As far as concealment, likely something like Nakidka kits. As far as sensors go, IRST/Acoustic system like Penicillin:

    https://www.russiadefence.net/t7653p750-russian-ground-forces-news-2#241608

    ...or artillery radar like Zoopark-1, or SNAR-10 M1 self-propelled radar, capable of detecting tanks at a distance of up to 40 km:

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    Post  Hole Fri Jan 11, 2019 10:34 am

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    Post  hoom Sat Jan 12, 2019 1:24 am

    Ooh I like that idea.
    Don't understand why these Kornet setups put the optics below the launchers?
    I guess a question of clearance, tried it the other way & found missiles tended to impact the cover?

    Side point: is there any sign of a Javelinski? ie a fire-&-forget ATGM. Or they have one already that I never heard of?
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    Post  GarryB Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:41 am

    You might be overthinking it. From my understanding one launcher can be lifted and the other can set in the rest position. Just take a look at the Kornet-D system on the Tiger-M platform. As seen here, at the :58 second mark through the 1:16 mark, the launchers show to have independent lifting and rotating mechanisms.

    I think I am over thinking it... with two launchers deployed it should be able to engage two different targets with a total of four missiles (two per launcher) but while each mount can turn independently I don't think each can fire 360 degrees while the other launcher is up.

    Also with the missile tubes above the sensors/optics even after the missiles are fired the tubes are visible to the enemy... on something like Krisantema there are two tubes raised but when the two missiles are fired the launcher can retract and reload even while the missiles are in flight.

    I just think separating the optics and guidance system from the missiles... the optics and guidance system can be mounted on an arm so it can be raised up to see over cover or concealment, while the launch tubes could have 8 ready to fire missiles in a big rotatable mount like the one on the BRDM-2 with the AT-3 missiles (but 8 tubes instead of 6 missiles). The missiles could be angled up to loft the missiles into the line of sight of the guidance system and the target.

    With the sensors on the arm you could only attack one target at a time but you could use it more effectively in places with hedges or low bush cover that makes line of sight at ground level difficult.

    It would also make hitting the vehicle it is mounted upon much more difficult... it could be a Tigr 4 wheel drive or it could be an Armata tank for all the enemy know.

    Don't understand why these Kornet setups put the optics below the launchers?

    I suspect it makes it easier for the missile to detect the laser beam that it rides to the target...

    Side point: is there any sign of a Javelinski? ie a fire-&-forget ATGM. Or they have one already that I never heard of?

    Talk of a mini missile called Bulat that is fire and forget...

    But Javelin is subsonic... about 150m/s.... less than half the speed of Kornet... the use of auto target tracking means Kornet is in practical terms fire and forget...
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    Post  Hole Sat Jan 12, 2019 4:40 pm

    hoom wrote:Ooh I like that idea.
    Don't understand why these Kornet setups put the optics below the launchers?
    I guess a question of clearance, tried it the other way & found missiles tended to impact the cover?

    Side point: is there any sign of a Javelinski? ie a fire-&-forget ATGM. Or they have one already that I never heard of?

    There ist the RPG-32. Uses the same method as the Javelin. Was developed for some ME Country (Jordan?).

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    Post  Hole Sat Jan 12, 2019 6:01 pm

    I guess it´s like magnumcromangon said, in the firing position one launcher will be raised and used, the other will stay inside the vehilce, except when there are more targets in front of the vehicle so the number of usable missiles is important and not the 360° coverage.

    Also most of the time ATGM systems are used in ambushes, they choose the place and time of attack. A 360° coverage would only be useful it the vehicle is on the open battlefield and himself attacked from the rear.

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    Why the optics are under the missiles? Maybe in the down position the missiles can be easier reloaded that way. The optics will be close to the floor of the vehicle, the missiles above them = easier to reach???

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    Post  hoom Sun Jan 13, 2019 1:58 am

    There ist the RPG-32. Uses the same method as the Javelin.
    Doesn't appear to be a guided missile? Suspect
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    Post  GarryB Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:10 am

    There ist the RPG-32. Uses the same method as the Javelin. Was developed for some ME Country (Jordan?).

    No.

    The RPG-32 just fires the RPG-29 unguided rockets and the RPG-26 unguided rockets... ie 105mm and 72mm rockets in both the HE and HEAT versions.

    The RPG-32 is a sighting system clipped onto the rocket tube and it has a ballistic computer and range finder to place an impact point in the viewfinder... put that on the target and fire and you have a reasonable chance of hitting the target with the different rounds using different settings in the sight.

    A bit like a ballistic scope for a rifle... set the type of ammo, and enter the range and it will generate an approximate impact point... which you use to aim.

    I guess it´s like magnumcromangon said, in the firing position one launcher will be raised and used, the other will stay inside the vehilce, except when there are more targets in front of the vehicle so the number of usable missiles is important and not the 360° coverage.

    Also with two separate posts and two control positions one can be using the weapon while the other looks for targets, then the one who fired can lower his launcher and reload any rounds that were fired while the other can engage up to four targets before he has to reload too.

    Also most of the time ATGM systems are used in ambushes, they choose the place and time of attack. A 360° coverage would only be useful it the vehicle is on the open battlefield and himself attacked from the rear.

    The problem is that you wont know if you are being attacked from behind if you can't turn the missiles and therefore the sensors 360 degrees...

    The operator with his weapon down can't use his sights to find targets and is effectively blind...

    The post each system is mounted on seems to fold forward to retract... perhaps having a double fold could be used to allow one to be raised much higher to allow it to fire 360 degrees while the other just mainly fires forward... when both are up...

    Doesn't appear to be a guided missile?

    It isn't.
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    Post  dino00 Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:04 pm

    Shot and forgot: a new anti-tank complex is being created in Russia

    In the near future, it is planned to work on the creation of a single wearable and multi-purpose self-propelled ATGM that implement the principle of“ shot-and-forget ”and ensure the possibility of launching a rocket from small unprepared rooms and firing fortifications,” the message said.

    This is reported in the collection of "Rocket-technical and artillery-technical support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - 2018", published by the Main Rocket-Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

    https://tvzvezda.ru/news/opk/content/2019241643-hWPpk.html
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    Post  magnumcromagnon Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:53 am

    Here's something I wasn't previously aware of, apparently KBP Tula during the mid-80's, developed a kinetic-kill ATGM. I believe it was called the Veer R&D project, which Arkadiy Shipunov (then lead designer of KBP Tula) developed a kinetic-kill ATGM, which utilized a powerful rocket to accelerate it to hypersonic speed to effectively kill armor. It was 40mm in diameter and 1.5 meters in length, and was a laser-beam-riding munition (much like Kornet). For whatever reason it didn't go in to series, whether it was the Ground Forces being conservative, or the economic polices of the shit-stain birth mark (a euphemism for Gorbachev). I don't think Shipunov would of developed a system that was completely mediocre, I think there's plenty of solid reasons for reviving project Veer.



    In this regard, an increase in the firepower of the tank due to the installation of a 152-mm gun is far from always justified. It is advisable to consider other methods of increasing firepower. For example, in the mid-80s, Shipunov in the Instrument Design Bureau showed us the results of work on the Veer R&D system, in which we developed a ground-based anti-tank missile system based on a laser-guided missile with an armor-piercing core accelerated to hypersonic speed. The missile was a “scrap” with a diameter of about 40 mm and a length of about 1.5 meters. A powerful engine was installed in the tail of the rocket, accelerating it to hypersonic speed. This complex did not reach the army at that time, but technologies are developing intensively and at the present level it is possible to realize ideas that could not be completed until then.


    https://topwar.ru/161962-dostatochno-li-ocenivat-sovremennye-tanki-po-ognevoj-moschi-zaschischennosti-i-podvizhnosti.html




    1.) The technologies for hypersonic munitions are far more mature now than they were in the 1980's, even the Kalashnikov Concern has their own division for the development of hypersonic technology (NPO Molinya which designed Buran). A revival of the project would be vastly superior than previous iterations.

    2.) It wouldn't be a replacement for classic HEAT based ATGMs, it would be complimentary. KBP Tula, which also under the leadership of Shipunov also created the world's most formidable man-portable HEAT ATGM (Kornet), could incorporate this in a separate modified tube that could fire on the same launcher. At 40mm it can almost be quad-packed in the 152mm tube (40 fits in to 152, 3.8 times). Having a slightly larger tube (160mm) means you could have 4 munitions on hand ready to fire at any give time, with different warheads. Different warheads for different situations: a.) A standard kinentic tungsten-carbide dart for armor b.) Thermobaric warheads for infantry hiding in buildings c.) And a classic HE-Frag warhead for infantry in open space. 

    Particularly the thermobaric warhead would be interesting. Thermobaric warheads usually have the destructive power slightly double that of HE-Frag warhead. A 40mm thermobaric round would be as powerful (or slightly greater than) a 100mm HE-Frag warhead. Obviously 'flamethrower' rounds are best used against OPFOR hiding in buildings because it's capable of taking the house down. HE-Frag warheads are better at defeating targets in open space, where fragmentation can cover a greater surface area than a thermobaric warhead. Experience has shown in Syria and in the Donbass the importance of ATGMs pin-point targeting (at extended range) at enemy positions, and moping up the fleeing combatants with marksman/sniper rifle fire. The growing popularity of the wack-a-mole strategy in taking/re-taking tactical positions on the battlefield (as demonstrated here):

    https://vk.com/video-128368123_456244583
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    Post  kvs Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:57 am

    Given the advances in solid rocket propellant since the 1980s, I would say that Russian companies should revisit this concept.
    I think that its main issue was the need for a substantial rocket to accelerate to hypersonic speeds. These days the same
    rocket would be less than 50% the size. That is, much more flexible for logistics and equipment efficiency.

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    Post  GarryB Thu Oct 03, 2019 7:51 am

    Interesting but I suspect this weapon is probably physically like the SA-19 missile, with a two stage weapon using a front terminal stage with a long rod penetrator using control surfaces to steer and a rear facing sensor for command guidance to the target, and the rear section being a simple solid rocket booster to accelerate a rather light front portion to very high speeds very quickly and then fall away.

    A modern version could make the rear rocket booster rather smaller and also rather more powerful, with the guidance and control system smaller and lighter and more accurate with modern electronics and motors, and of course a ramjet component to accelerate the weapon to even higher speeds and maintain speed better for more distant targets... a scramjet motor could take the velocity at 1km range of perhaps 1.2km/s and increase it to perhaps 2km/s over 3-4 seconds, so by the time the missile has reached the 8km or so reach of the Kornet it might be travelling at 2.5km/s with a 1m long 12kg penetrator made out of DU or something equally as hard.

    The enormous flight speed means having fire and forget guidance is redundant... it would reach a 10km range target in less than 10 seconds so an expensive and complex guidance system makes little sense... a larger heavier helo launched model could have enormous range even if the ramjet is only to overcome drag and maintain a high average flight speed from launch to impact.

    The old SA-19 flew at about 1km/s initially, but with this missile, the "payload" would be rather lighter and therefore likely accelerated to higher speeds.

    The original SA-19 missile was about 57kgs all up, so a smaller lighter projectile with a smaller lighter booster rocket, you could shift the masses around... instead of a ramjet you could just put more rocket propellent on the second stage and accelerate it that way for targets 10km away or less.

    For targets at greater distance a laser homing seeker and a bigger booster and ramjet sustainer might be a solution for a kinetic missile for targets beyond 20km from helicopter or light aircraft...
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    Post  George1 Thu Nov 21, 2019 2:39 pm

    244th artillery brigade of the 11th army of the Baltic Fleet Coastal Force in Kaliningrad received new 9M123 Khrizantema-S self-propelled anti-tank missile complexes.

    https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3846712.html


    In Crimea, in the 126th brigade of coastal troops also there are Khrizantema-S self-propelled ATGMs.


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    Post  jhelb Sat Nov 30, 2019 1:39 pm

    This Wikipedia article says 9M133 Kornet ATGM has been exported to both Pakistan and India. Any truth in this ?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M133_Kornet

    I think 9M133 Kornet ATGM  was exported to Pakistan but couldn't find any Russian source that says it was exported to India as well.

    Can anyone please confirm.
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    Post  GarryB Sun Dec 01, 2019 1:33 am

    According to SIPRI:

    India ordered 3000 Kornet/AT-14 Anti-tank missiles in 2003 and they were delivered between 2003 and 2006, in a deal that included over 250 launchers for the Kornet-E version.

    No record of any sale of Kornets to Pakistan from Russia however... they might be confusing it with the sale of Kornets to Turkey?

    Just shows how unreliable Wiki can be.

    Turkey ordered 800 Kornet/AT-14 Anti-tank missiles in 2008, which were delivered from 2009 to 2010 in a deal including about 80 launchers.

    SIPRI database page:

    http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/trade_register.php

    Enter relevant criteria and get results in spreadsheet form.
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    Post  jhelb Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:37 am

    Thanks Garry

    GarryB wrote:No record of any sale of Kornets to Pakistan from Russia however... they might be confusing it with the sale of Kornets to Turkey?

    Pakistani websites citing the Pakistani Ministry of Defense are stating that Pakistan has procured Kornets from Russia.

    https://quwa.org/2019/10/06/pakistan-ordered-kornet-e-anti-tank-guided-missiles-in-2017-2018/

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