Russian Helicopter ATGMs

ALAMO wrote:Ch-38 is kinda heavy, it is a real serious gear.
I was already wondering about a niche for 305  and can't find one if we consider a 15km range, at all.

New threats new roles for weapons. I guess they will quickly improve the range to 20km to make most nato shorads useless.

Normal atgm with less than 8km range put helicopters in new AD system's engagement zone.

In a sense the LMUR can be considered a replacement AS-10/Kh-25ML, a 10km range laser homing missile with a 90kg warhead and ability to hit point targets to 10-12km or so...



So a 25kg warhead for a weapon that weighs the same as an R-73 AAM delivered 15km to target.

In comparison the Kh-25ML is about 320kgs and has a 90 kg warhead to about 10km range.

With two LMUR per weapon pylon that means 50kgs of warhead for 200kg of missile weight and precision guidance that allows the missile to fly into enemy held territory and be guided towards hidden targets... sounds like a good improvement.

I would expect later models have longer range... on the Combat Approved TV show about the latest model Havoc they had this missile all blurred and described it as being the this weapon and didn't they say its range was about 25km?

Can't remember...

GarryB wrote:With two LMUR per weapon pylon that means 50kgs of warhead for 200kg of missile weight and precision guidance that allows the missile to fly into enemy held territory and be guided towards hidden targets... sounds like a good improvement.

It gets better......Tesla Electric power supply and chips from the German company Telefilter goes in the designing of this missile.

Good, so they will lose money when they change to domestic materials...

Hole wrote:So someone dismantled a complete missile and found the stuff? No, just more western BS.

Humor me, if not western what local electric power supply and chips are being used in the LMUR?

RTN wrote:
It gets better......Tesla Electric power supply and chips from the German company Telefilter goes in the designing of this missile.

Can you link a source to this?

Werewolf wrote:

Can you link a source to this?

It is a claim Piotr Butowski made in Drive article.

This gets to the core of western arrogance and ignorance.... they used western components in a weapon, so now they can't use western components they wont be able to continue making the weapon.

I would suggest being a military weapon and also brand new they designed and built it with the best available components at the time... while Russian components were being developed and made... they will have an initial production batch of the missiles they would have made for testing and early operational use, and then when the missile gets into serial production and use they will make more and they will use any bits they can get to make the first ones and then replace them when Russian products can replicate or exceed the performance.

I would say these are first production models... but find it amazing because western components for Russian military stuff has been a banned export situation since 2008 with Georgia... so some western companies are bypassing sanctions rules... very funny... but money is involved.

When you say electric power supply I guess you mean batteries... they have already invested a lot of money in new generation battery technologies and equally for chip production, so they likely already have replacement material either in production or ready for production soon.

Using inferior batteries and chips from other sources would allow production to continue in the mean time anyway.

Either way, this further cuts off trade between Russia and the west while at the same time allowing Russia to develop technology they can use in the rest of their weapons technology and also sell to the rest of the world.

Maximum precision: the capabilities of the new Russian Izdelie 305E guided missile are revealed, 03.31.2023.

The Russian Aerospace Forces' Izdelie 305E multifunctional guided missile is being successfully used in the area of the Russian special military operation, the Russian state corporation Rostec reported.

According to the consortium, the projectile is part of the arsenal of the Mi-28NM and Ka-52M reconnaissance and attack helicopters. The Izdelie 305E can hit a target at a distance of 14.5 kilometers, and significantly increases the accuracy of air strikes, making combat safer for Russian pilots.

"The newest Izdelie 305E missile for the Mi-28NM and Ka-52M attack helicopters proved its effectiveness, and is being successfully used in the Russian special operation," Rostec said.

The projectile, adopted by the Russian Armed Forces in 2021, is the first of the helicopter armament class that has the 'shoot and forget' principle, which allows the ammunition not to be guided by the carrier after its launch. At the same time, the Izdelie 305E can be used with the on-board aiming system that allows manual guidance to the target, as well as having the ability to be launched at a considerable distance from the adversary without being detected.

The pilot uses the approximate coordinates of the target and launches the missile towards the enemy. When the projectile approaches a few kilometers away, the Izdelie 305E transmits images to the operator, who in turn indicates a specific target for the ammunition to hit.

Rostec added that the guided missile also has self-guidance by thermal imaging, a precise inertial navigation system with Glonass interface, altimeter and a communication channel with the helicopter. The power of the missile's high-explosive fragmentation warhead is 25 kilograms and it can reach a maximum speed of 828 kilometers per hour.

It is noted that similar ammunition exists abroad, but the Izdelie 305E has advantages that make the Russian missile have a high export potential. In particular, the powerful warhead and the ability to correct the flight manually.

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