You might've missed
my para 3a) at bottom of my last Post (Emboldening didn't take.)(2hr. edit thing) with the extra search time I came across the
KOMBAT it states...
Chart at top shows the 750mm penetration at 5000m/5km. Min. range should be
100m still.
"The
KOMBAT laser-beam riding precision-guided missile can launch from the 125-mm smoothbore guns mounted on the
T-72, T-80UD and
OPLOT main battle tanks equipped with fire control systems compatible with it."
"The
KOMBAT has four fold-out fins at its extreme rear, and offers an
effective range of 5,000 m which it covers in 17 seconds."
"The laser beam is only brought
into coincidence with the target (tank or helicopter)
for 0.3 seconds prior to impact, effectively leaving the enemy with no time to activate a laser-warning system. At a range of
5.0 km, miss distance does not exceed 0.5 m. The missile
has been accepted as standard issue for the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
KOMBAT it is from what I can see from the State run
UKROBORONSERVICE and as
developed by State Design Bureau
Luch in Kyiv, are series produced by the Artem State Joint Stock Holding Company, also based in Kyiv. So this matches the ref. as well. This is their
current tank fired ATGW.
ALSO the
T-72AMT has the same MG as the
OPLOT-M a
125mm A246, this combined with the KOMBAT would strongly support the fact that the
T-72AMT has to have an
improved FCS to handle that ATGW. The below ref even states that at the
start of para. 2.
Again from the bottom of my last Post...
https://en.uos.ua/produktsiya/vooruz...kombat-i-konus
Regards,
Pat
