A bit of research required....

[DRG]

If anyone has access to any one of these three books.....

* Soviet/Russian Aircraft Weapons Since World War Two, Yefim Gordon, ISBN 1-85780-188-1
* Mil Mi-24 Hind Attack Helicopter, Yefim Gordon and Dimitri Komissarov, ISBN 1-84037-238-9
* Jane's Air Launched Weapons Issue 36, Duncan Lennox, ISBN 0-7106-0866-7

Could you please look up S-5K rockets please and let me know what they say about HEAT penetration.

Thanks

Don

[MarkSheppard]

Right! I am on the job!

[MarkSheppard]

From Soviet/Russian weapons since WW2 by Yefim Gordon:

The S-5 is spun around it's axis at 750 RPM for stability; and the motor burns 1.1 seconds, during a burn length of 300m

The S-5K (originally KARS-57) and S-5K1 are AP rockets capable of burning through armor plate up to 130mm thick.

Specs wise, the S-5K1 is a 57mm calibre rocket 0.83 m long, with a launch weight of 3.64 kg and a warhead weight of 1.1 kg, and a "kill" range of 2 kilometers.

If you ever wanted to know even more...

The S-5KO is a combined fragmentation/AP warhead, capable of creating up to 220 fragments in addition to the burnination.

The S-5KP and S-5KPB differ from the previous models in having a piezoelectric fuze instead of a mechanically actuated impact fuze.

[DRG]

Excellent !

Thank you.

Don