Superior tank hits with highly effective Russian anti-tank weapon programs. Footage reveals the fearsome RPO-A Shmel, RPG-7, Konkurs & Fagot ATGM anti tank rockets, grenades and missiles in motion in opposition to goal tanks on a number of coaching ranges.
The RPO-A Shmel, Rocket-propelled Infantry Flamethrower-A Bumblebee) is a man-portable disposable rocket-assisted flamethrower, though it’s labeled as a rocket launcher by some within the West.
The RPO-A is a single-shot, self-contained tube formed launcher that operates very like the LAW rocket launchers, a sealed tube, carried in a man-pack in pairs. The identical particular person can take away the tube, place it in firing place, and launch the weapon with out help. After launch, the tube is discarded. All fashions are externally comparable.
Designed to defeat hid enemy firing positions, disable calmly armored and automotive automobiles, destroy enemy manpower. The aiming vary of a flamethrower with a diopter sight is 600 meters, with an OPO optical sight – 450 m, OPO-1 – as much as 850 m.
The RPG-7 is a conveyable, reusable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
The launcher is reloadable and primarily based round a metal tube, 40 millimetres in diameter, 95.3 centimetres lengthy, and weighing 7 kilograms. The center of the tube is wooden wrapped to guard the consumer from warmth and the tip is flared. Sighting is often optical with a back-up iron sight, and passive infra-red and night time sights are additionally accessible. The launchers designated RPG-7N1 and RPG-7DN1 can thus mount the multi-purpose night time imaginative and prescient scope 1PN51] and the launchers designated RPG-7N2 and RPG-7DN2 can mount the multi-purpose night time imaginative and prescient scope 1PN58.
As with comparable weapons, the grenade protrudes from the launch tubes. It’s 40–105 millimetres in diameter and weighs between 2.0 and 4.5 kilograms. It’s launched by a gunpowder booster cost, giving it an preliminary velocity of 115 metres per second, and making a cloud of sunshine grey-blue smoke that can provide away the place of the shooter.The rocket motor ignites after 10 metres and sustains flight out to 500 metres at a most velocity of 295 metres per second. The grenade is stabilized by two units of fins that deploy in-flight: one massive set on the stabilizer pipe to take care of course and a smaller rear set to induce rotation. The grenade can fly as much as 1,100 metres; the fuze units the utmost vary, often 920 metres.
The 9M113 Konkurs (Russian: 9М113 «Конкурс»; English: “Contest”; NATO reporting identify AT-5 Spandrel) is a Soviet SACLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile.
A improvement of the 9K111 Fagot with higher firepower, the 9M113 Konkurs can use the identical launchers and may be very comparable visually, distinguishable solely by a slight bulge in the direction of the tip of the Konkurs’ missile tube.
The missile is designed to be fired from automobiles, though it will also be fired from the later fashions of 9M111 launchers. It’s an integral a part of the BMP-2, BMD-2 and BRDM-2 automobiles. The missile is saved and carried in a fiberglass container/launch tube.
The system makes use of a gasoline generator to push the missile out of the launch tube. The gasoline additionally exits from the rear of the launch tube in the same method to a recoilless rifle. The missile leaves the launch tube at 80 meters per second, and is rapidly accelerated to 200 meters per second by its strong gas motor. This preliminary excessive velocity reduces the missile’s deadzone, since it may be launched immediately on the goal, relatively than in an upward arc. In flight, the missile spins at between 5 and 7 revolutions per second.
The launcher tracks the place of an incandescent infrared bulb on the again of the missile relative to the goal and transmits applicable instructions to the missile through a skinny wire that trails behind the missile. The system has an alarm that prompts when it detects jamming from a system like Shtora. The operator can then take handbook management, decreasing the missile to MCLOS. The SACLOS steerage system has many advantages over MCLOS. The system’s accuracy is quoted in some sources as 90%, although its efficiency might be akin to the BGM-71 TOW or later SACLOS variations of the 9K11 Malyutka.
The 9K111 Fagot (Russian: Фагот; “bassoon”) is a second-generation tube-launched SACLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile system of the Soviet Union to be used from floor or car mounts. The 9K111 Fagot missile system was developed by the Tula KBP Design Bureau for Instrument Constructing. “9M111” is the GRAU designation of the missile. Its NATO reporting identify is AT-4 Spigot.
Credit: Russian Ministry of Defence.
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