Experts named the scope of the new unguided aircraft missiles
In Russia, a new aircraft rocket has been invented, which combines the properties of two ammunition: concrete-piercing and high-explosive fragmentation. Why did aviation need such missiles? What might be the way to use them? And most importantly, what opportunities does the delivery of such missiles open up for Russian aviation?
Russian specialists have created a new generation unguided aviation missile (NAR). The new development has a highly efficient engine, which lays the foundation for further work on the production of ammunition combining concrete-piercing and high-explosive properties. The caliber of the model is 80 mm.
The novelty was presented at Rostec following the presentation of the Nikolai Makarovets Award. The creator of the innovative project was the team of the NGO "Alloy" named after A.N. Ganichev, recognized as the winner in the nomination "For contribution to the development and production of special-purpose products".
The use of the new model will ensure the defeat of both openly located targets and those located in closed fortifications and forests. Recall that recently the Russian aviation has been receiving more and more unique combat vehicles. So, recently, a long-range cruise missile of intra-fuselage placement was created for the Su-57 fighter.
The expert community notes that the development of new unguided aircraft missiles will allow equipping existing models of airplanes and helicopters with more powerful ammunition. It is emphasized that their coverage area is much wider than that of similar models of earlier generations.
"The new development is designed for more accurate destruction of armored vehicles, as well as enemy manpower located in fragile shelters.
The key feature of an unguided aviation missile is that its use implies the simultaneous launch of several munitions at once",
– said Vladimir Popov, Honored Military Pilot of the Russian Federation, Major General.
"This makes it possible to provide a sufficiently large-scale coverage of a specific piece of land. In addition to this, the combat part of the development is high-explosive, which contributes to an even greater increase in the area of potential impact," the expert notes.
"An important feature of the development is that it is extremely unpretentious in its use. Its application is possible on a fairly wide range of aircraft. Both airplanes and helicopters are suitable. The main thing is the installation of lock–type suspension systems, which are easily installed on many Russian models," the interlocutor emphasizes.
"Thus, the new NARS allow us to seriously unify our ammunition in the future, which, in turn, will simplify the serial production of missiles. And aviation gets an easy-to-create, but extremely powerful missile capable of qualitatively affecting the combat capability of the army," Popov emphasizes.
The new development has a high flight range, as well as a more powerful combat unit, according to Sergey Lipovoy, Major General of Aviation, Hero of Russia. "Since the ammunition will be supplied in several versions, our aircraft will be able to hit the enemy not only with high-explosive charges, but also with armor-piercing ones. This will make it possible to destroy protected targets," he said.
"Moreover, the new missile is universal, as it has a standard 80 mm caliber for this type of ammunition. Thus, it can be installed on all aircraft models that have suitable mounts, and there are quite a lot of such machines in Russian aviation," he emphasizes.
"Another advantage of the caliber of the new ammunition is the ability to quickly establish mass production. After passing military tests, those capacities that produced previous generations of missiles will be used for production. Accordingly, the transition period in the army will almost not be felt," Lipovoy summed up.
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