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Drakon, used with the IT-1 missile tank that saw very little service. Taifun, a prototype missile that never saw production. 3M6 Shmel (AT-1 Snapper) 3M11 Falanga (AT-2 Swatter) 9M14 Malyutka (AT-3 Sagger) 9M111 Fagot (AT-4 Spigot) 9M112 Kobra (AT-8 Songster) – fired through smoothbore tank gun tubes of T-64 and T-72 tanks; 9M113 Konkurs (AT ...
Anti-tank missile Soviet Union: 136mm [2] 9M14 Malyutka: Anti-tank missile Soviet Union: 125mm Some mounted on Mi-24s and BMP-1s. [11] 9M17 Fleyta: Anti-tank missile Soviet Union: 148mm Mounted on Mi-24A helicopters. [11] 9K111 Fagot: Anti-tank missile Soviet Union: 120mm Mounted on BMP-2s. [11]
An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles. ATGMs range in size from shoulder-launched weapons, which can be transported by a single soldier, to larger tripod-mounted weapons, which ...
It was a derivative of the NORD SS.10 and SS.11 missiles which were surface-to-surface wire-guided missiles for use by infantry, vehicle or a helicopter primarily in the anti-tank role, but also anti-material, anti-personnel and against light field fortifications. The SS.12/AS.12 was basically a scaled-up version of the SS.11/AS.11, with a ...
It was held May 22–30, 1972. It featured the signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement. The summit is considered one of the hallmarks of the détente at the time between the two Cold War antagonists.
The Khrizantema anti-tank missile was unveiled in July 1996 by the Konstruktorskoye Byuro Mashynostroyenia (KB Mashinostroyeniya – KBM) Engineering Design Bureau. [3]The missile began development in the 1980s and was designed as an all weather, multi-purpose missile system that could defeat current and future armoured units equipped with advanced armour protection, such as explosive reactive ...
Moral Code of the Builder of Communism (Russian: Моральный кодекс строителя коммунизма) was a set of twelve codified moral rules in the Soviet Union which every member of the Communist Party of the USSR and every Komsomol member were supposed to follow.
The first guided anti-tank missile system fired from smoothbore 125 mm tank guns, the 9K112 Kobra, appeared on Soviet T-64B tanks in 1976.However, they were incompatible with the autoloader of the T-72 tanks (while the T-64 also had an autoloader, it was very different from the one in T-72), so the new missile system was developed for T-72.