and atgm is a powerful weapon that could destroy heavily armored main
battle tanks from more than a mile away unlike short-range rpgs and recoilless anti-tank weapons
used on post-world war ii battlefields ukraine's military has received more than 5 000 javelin
atgms and milan missiles from france in the first month of its fight against the russian invasion
while the high-tech javelins have gotten a lot of attention ukrainians are also using
a homegrown atgm dubbed the stogna p which appears to be doing well on the battlefield
and with that in this video us military news channel will discuss
the stogna p anti-tank weapon watch this video until the end and give your opinion
russian tanks are dying at the hands of another anti-armor system you may have yet to hear of
the stugna p anti-tank guided missile packs a wallop and it is torturing russian tanks
this is a home-grown ukrainian weapon that the defenders have mastered the laser guided system
has a long range and ample penetration capability it provides an additional anti-tank option beyond
the javelin and law and at4 the use of the stugna p is so straightforward that even a
former ukrainian politician now turned soldier is firing it against the russians in comparison
to the javelin the stogner p weighs 200 pounds and lacks some cutting-edge features on the other hand
the ukrainian missile has clever design elements that show its worth over a shorter distance
admittedly the stugna p is akin to the russian coordinate and the u.s tow in flight the missile
can be guided by a semi-automatic sight and guidance system that locks onto a distant target
the fire control system calculates coarse adjustments and sends them to the missile
via an optical receiver on its tail via a laser at a shallower angle than a u.s javelin missile
this missile can be configured to target a tank's thin top armor from a height of 10 meters
standard 130 millimeter arcade 2s missiles include 22 pounds of tandem charge payload designed to
proactively trip the bricks of explosive reactive armor or era widely laid to defend russian tanks
behind reactive armor it could pierce 800 millimeters of rha
the warheads tandem warhead can allegedly overcome russia's contcat five or relicate
era which would let it pass through the russian military's best protected tanks a more powerful
152 millimeter caliber rk2m missile can penetrate 1100 millimeters rha
and has a 10 greater range in speed but it's unclear whether ukraine uses it operationally
for anti-personnel targets there are also high explosive and thermobaric variants
a unique feature of the stognuk compared to other atgms is its control system which
allows the three-person crew to set up the launcher on its tripod from an ideal firing
position and remotely control it from cover or even an underground bunker using a laptop-like
control system connected to the launcher by a 50 meter long cable that's especially
useful when attacking the operator either with preemptive artillery barrages or a tank gun
at the same time the missile is mid-flight a stugna could take up to 25 seconds traversing
its maximum range of 3.1 to 3.4 miles is a classic counter tactic the stugna's remote setup isn't new
the 9m14 melayukta or nato designation 83 sagar was manually directed using a joystick-like device
attached by a 15-meter cord to the launcher some israeli spike atgms can also be fired remotely
us forces using tow atgms must still be in line of sight of retaliatory fire to engage targets
the stigma's remote control technology has a further benefit it may record enemy vehicle
destruction for propaganda purposes a soldier's cell phone camera captures images of the attack
rather than the fire control system saving the media in the nagorno-karabakh conflict in 2020
azerbaijani tb2 drones filmed the destruction of hundreds of armenian vehicles and artillery
systems all of the footage confirmed azerbaijan's claim of unstoppable victory
keep in mind that the destruction of the enemy's military forces is virtually never the end of a
war rather loss usually occurs when one or both sides lose their desire to fight vladimir putin's
trolls and spokespersons declare his invasion is preceding as planned at the same time video
after video of armored vehicles being shot down supports the idea among ukrainians that the fight
is winnable the stugna p is one of the successful products of ukraine's post-soviet military sector
which has struggled to actualize potential projects due to inefficiency and poor finance
ukraine's luch state design bureau created an r-111 missile for use with the 100 millimeter guns
of the thousands of t-55 tanks and mt-12 anti-tank guns in service worldwide in the 1990s
a dismounted 130 millimeter caliber missile system known as the skiff or scythian was created in
the mid 2000s using a peddling pnc guided system produced at belarus at the time in 2011 ukraine's
military began employing a limited quantity of stugna peas equipped with a 33 pound pni site
and guidance system that inventory was delivered to paratroopers defending the luhansk and donesk
international airports in 2014 when fighting with russian-backed separatist groups began on top of
the control tower in luhengshk a launcher was built that could be controlled remotely inside
in march 2015 kiev ordered mass missile production
which was useful for countering russian and separatist armor in eastern ukraine
in the following years stugnus was extensively used as a precision strike weapon
against separatist vehicles and heavy weapon nests along the contact line in
donbass it's believed at least seven thousand stugna p missiles will be delivered by 2021
turkish assailsan eye lrs thermal cameras were installed on 102 stugna p launchers
they had a daytime target identification range of 9.3 miles and nighttime sighting ranges of
3.5 miles for tanks and 1.55 miles for people in addition to being mounted on golf cart like
cf motor tracker 800s the ukrainian national guard and the 93rd mechanized brigade in ukraine
have deployed stigmas on four-wheel drive apcs called novator four-by-fours
the stugnape appears to be used by territorial defense force militants as well
in the northeastern neighborhood of skybin the 112th tdf brigade of keefe
claimed in march that its stigmas had destroyed five vehicles including two tanks
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