Ukraine successfully test-fires «Corsar» light portable missile
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The Ukrainian State Kyiv Design Bureau “Luch” successfully test-fired its newly developed «Corsar» light portable missile.
The official page of the company on Facebook revealed for the first time details of a test the «Corsar» light portable missile system. According to a company, 50 mm armor plates target penetrated by a blast-fragmentation warhead (105mm caliber) of «Corsar» missile.
«Corsar» light portable missile system is intended to destroy stationary and moving modern armoured targets and other objects with combined, carried or monolithic armour, including ERA (explosive reactive armour), as well as pinpoint targets such as weapon emplacements, a tank in a trench, light-armoured objects and helicopters.
Firing can be carried out from the mount as well as from a trench parapet.
SPECIFICATIONS
| Maximum firing range, m | 2500 |
| Flight time at maximum range, s | 12 |
| Guidance system | semiautomatic by
laser beam |
| Warhead:
– tandem hollow-charge, armour penetration behind ERA, mm – high-explosive fragmentation with EFP, armour penetration, mm – thermobaric |
not less than 550
not less than 50
|
| Weight, kg:
– launcher – mount – missile in container |
9,2 6,3 15,4 |
| Overall dimensions, mm:
– container length – container outer diameter |
1180 113 |
| Operating temperature range, оС | from minus 40 to +60 |
