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I suppose that in theory you might fire one of them at a sniper but why? First of all they are horribly expensive to be fired at such sort of targets. Then even if you had some of them available, let's say a batch of "Kobra" nearing the expire date, setting them up is such a pain in the *** that would be hard to undertake with early 90's russian crews. Not worth it.
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Good point. I was more thinking about more recent weapon systems (even the early Svir-Refleks and Bastion were in limited service in the late 80s), and using them in coordinated support for forward troops a couple of kms in advance of said tanks. Other possibility is using missiles to plink long-range ATGM teams when in overwatch.
That's considering that these missiles are way more accurate than any HE(AT) tank round at ranges beyond 2km. And also that any guided missile round is way less expensive than a tnk and its crew.
I know the Russian way (particularly in the first Chechen war) would be more like "let's fall back and cover every square foot in a one-km radius from that damn sniper with one ton of arty shells", but hey.
