Today anti-tank
missile systems are viewed among the most effective precision weapons to strike
the armor.
MOSCOW, February 8.
/TASS/. Specialists of Russia’s Central Research Institute for Precision
Machine-Building (TsNIItochmash) are developing a new protective system to
shield the armor from smart precision-guided munitions. The latest Lotos
self-propelled artillery guns will be the first to get the new system, the
TsNIItochmash press office told TASS on Friday.
"Engineers of
the artillery section at TsNIItochmash are developing a new system of
protecting the armor from precision weapons. The technology is based on the
optoelectronic suppression of the systems of guiding attacking smart munitions
towards the target," the press office said.
The new protection
system "will be organically mounted on the 120mm Lotos self-propelled
artillery gun that is being prepared for preliminary trials," the press
office specified.
The system comprises
the equipment that registers a shot and the fire sector and the technology of
optoelectronic jamming with the help of aerosol munitions that disrupt an
attacking missile’s control.
Upon detecting an
attack, the protective system launches aerosol munitions in the required
direction, taking into account the wind. After that, the munition fires a block
of cartridges with the aerosol filling.
"During the
flight, cartridges sequentially come into action and form an aerosol cloud of
interferences in the visible, infrared and radio-frequency wavelength bands
providing protection for an armored vehicle," the TsNIItochmash press
office explained.
The aerosol
munitions’ preliminary trials have proven their high efficiency, TsNIItochmash
said.
The system’s munition
generates optoelectronic interference in an expanded wavelength band compered
to its analogues, it added.
Today anti-tank
missile systems are viewed among the most effective precision weapons to strike
the armor.
Missiles of these
systems have various guidance options: their flight can be directly controlled
by the system’s operator through a radio channel or they can feature an
infrared homing head or fly to the target under the control system’s commands
as long as the target is illuminated by a laser beam.
The disruption of
radio command communications with the missile, the loss of the target’s laser
illumination or the missile’s blinding in the infrared range will make it miss
the target.
Source: ITAR-TASS
09-02-2019
