A Russian 9P157-2 Khrizantema-S in Ukraine. Source: Sputnik.
Russia’s most advanced tank destroyer, the 9P157-2 Khrizantema-S, has been spotted in action in Ukraine, where the Russian military is currently conducting a special operation.
On July 14, a video showing a 9P157-2 firing an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) on one of Ukraine’s southern front service online. Some Russian sources said that the firing was a part of a live exercise.
The 9P157-2, which was developed by KB Mashinostroyeniya, is based on the BMP-3 chassis. The system is armed with the 9M123 missile that is available in two guidance modes, ACLOS [automatic command to line of sight] via radar beam riding or SACLOS [semi-automatic command to line of sight] via laser beam riding.
The missile has a range of up to six kilometers and can be configured with a high-explosive anti-tank warhead or a thermobaric one.
High speed is considered the 9M123 biggest advantage. The missile can reach a speed of Mach 1.2, making it virtually impossible to intercept by all current active protection systems available for military vehicle.
The 9P157-2 carries two 9M123 missiles on launch rails, which are extended from a stowed position, the radar is also stowed during transit. Missiles are re-loaded automatically by the tank destroyer from an internal magazine with 15 rounds and can also accept munitions manually loaded from outside the vehicle.
The advanced tank destroyer was seen before with the Russian military as well as with the armed force of the Donets People’s Republic on several fronts in Ukraine.
The 9P157-2 is especially effective in defensive operations. KB Mashinostroyeniya claims that three tank destroyers of this type can engage 14 attacking battle tanks at once and destroy at least sixty percent of the attacking force.
Effectiveness is determined by the accuracy, not by the speed. Faster missiles means they are heavier, which are more expensive to produce. Speed may contribute to the low accuracy. Western missiles are slower, but get the job done with tremendous accuracy.
What one dimensional thinking. What if you can achieve speed and accuracy? Your whole theory goes down the toilet.
Russians can not even achieve air superiority against ukraine 🤣😂
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Were you born retarded, or is this a result of some head injury?
Just watch the russian videos. All their missiles explodes few meters (like 20 meters) away from targets.
No they don’t. Some missiles like fragmentation warheads or high explosives explode some distance away from their target, other’s like armour piercing rounds explode on the surface but burn a hole through the armour, bunker busters penetrate deep into the material they hit before exploding, thermobaric rounds ignite an atomized gas cloud.
What you’ve probably seen are Russians using thermobaric grenades which look like ATGM launchers or perhaps fragmentation artillery rounds which explode in the air spraying shrapnel.
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What have they achieved? Seems like ukraine has freedom of maneuvre everywhere and weapons keep.coming and deployed and himars able to strike every russian pig farm 🔥
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REPLACEMENTS have been thronging in to die. The number of weapons and soldiers who have been defeated is colossal.
Ukraine is being utilized by RF as a live-fire military exercise ground to train its troops, as well as target test for newly developed missiles as part of the preparation in the run-up to a grand showdown with US-led NATO.
If you can hit the target with low speed, high precision, and cheap missiles, why would you use expensive and faster missiles. In addition, we don’t know how precise the kinzhal missile is.
A Javelin weighs about 25KG ready to fire so it’s only sort of portable, you can have one person carrying the missile and another the tube which splits that, but still quite a big thing. Probably need a vehicle to carry it far especially if you have other gear and want spare ammo. Tanks can dodge slow missiles by briefly popping into view to fire, their shells are fast, but they can reverse back before any slow missile reaches them. Berm tactics.
have you read article? “The missile can reach a speed of Mach 1.2, making it virtually impossible to intercept by all current active protection systems available for military vehicle.”
9M123 carries a 8kg tandem HEAT warhead with a reported penetration of 1100–1250 mm RHA (Rolled Homogeneous Armour) behind ERA. whole missile weight 46kg. Kinzhal is 500 kg warhead with 12,300–14,700 km/h speed . noone would use such weapon against tanks.
Retard Trolls don’t actually know how to read. I’ve seen this clown trolling before.
YOU don’t know –I DO know !! –do you want a technical explanation ??
The Russians say it’s accurate to 1 meter over 3000 km and they apparently nailed that building it hit in Odessa. I’ve read that the Kinzhal shares the same warhead with the Iskander which has a CEP of 5 Meters which is more believable IMO. I would suspect that the weakest link in the kill chain would define it’s accuracy … good targeting resolution high accuracy, poor target resolution crappy accuracy … the missile’s just going to go where you tell it to although apparently it has optical homing and can be given course corrections on the fly.
Go back watching Hunter Biden videos kid, you have absolutely no idea what are you talking about.
Please send me links.
An easy link even you can understand ( I hope ) wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal
They aren’t much help if they are hit by HIMARS……
But they are a lot of help if they hit the HIMARS first. Which of course is more likely than the other way around.
What an idiot 😂🤣🤡
Are you ilitterate? Or is it Numbers your problema?
The article literslly says range of SIX km, do you love himars range? Who s gonna hit first who? Do you need help for that math,? 🤣🤣🤡🏆
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I have no idea why the himmars have survived this far. They should be easy targets. Anyway, it tells me that russia doesn’t have sufficient surveillance capabilities.
Remember Scud hunting in the Iraqi desert in 1991?
How the Iraqi launched 31 Scud missiles using launchers that took about 30 minutes to break down after launch and despite having aircraft including joint stars which could see everything on the ground in the air and special “scud hunting” teams of special forces in the desert not a single Scud launcher was ever found?
That was in the open desert with nowhere to hide … Ukraine is full of towns, villages, farms and forests and HIMARS can be on their way WAY faster than 30 minutes. Also the USA had the skies and desert to themselves … no chance of being engaged by SAMs or running into an army like it is in Ukraine today.
Russia will get them … they have lots of eyes on the ground as well as in the air.
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Now, they’re just piling on and testing out their toys.
Sawyer impersonating me again—then deletes her comments—typical amerikant coward
Russian Ingenuity ! Make more, with less. Old BMP becomes Tank Killer.