Pues eso demuestra que China al menos ya hizo un misil AT con capacidad Fire and Forget antes que los mismos rusos, evidentemente llega 30 años después de la introducción de los primeros Spike y 15 años después de la entrada al servicio del Javelin.
Los misiles Fire & Forget no han entusiasmado mucho a los rusos debido al coste que tendría cada misil, aunque tampoco es que tengan abandonada la idea del todo. Pero lo harán a su manera. Dejo un articulo del 2011:
At MAKS 2011 International Aviation and Space Salon, KBP will exhibit its in-house developed Kornet-EM multipurpose missile system meeting the current requirements for a future ATGM system, owing to the use of advanced engineering solutions which have given it a number of new qualities.
The use of machine vision with a target autotracker removes the human from the ATGM guidance process, thus actually implementing the "fire and forget" concept, without using expensive seekers in the missile. At the same time the target tracking accuracy under real combat conditions increases up to 5 times and a high hit probability is achieved throughout the entire range envelope of the ATGM system, which is twice the range of the Kornet-E.
The capability to engage targets in automatic mode reduces the psychophysical load of operators, mitigates requirements for their qualifications, and at the same time cuts their training time.
Increase in firing range up to 10 km and hit accuracy, the implementation of auto-tracking making it possible to track not only slow ground targets, but also higher-speed objects, have made the Kornet-EM capable of accomplishing a mission that is essentially new for the ATGM system - engagement of small aerial targets (helicopters, UAVs and attacking ground-attack aircraft).
The Kornet-EM missiles can be used for firing from a 9P163M-2 portable launcher with an optical channel of variable power (12x and 20x) equipped with a 3rd Gen thermal sight.
Comparative performance analysis of the Kornet-EM system and its foreign counterparts suggests that the former is superior to fire-and-forget systems 3 to 5 times in terms of combat efficiency when accomplishing missions traditional for ATGM systems, being at the same time simpler in use and maintenance and employing 3 to 4 times cheaper missiles, which are an expendable component of the system and largely determine its operating costs in troops.
At MAKS 2011 International Aviation and Space Salon, KBP will exhibit its in-house developed Kornet-EM multipurpose missile system meeting the current requirements for a future ATGM system, owing to the use of advanced engineering solutions which have given it a number of new qualities.
¡La prensa Rusa hablando mal de la defensa de la RPC?
...sin amigos para lo que quieren.
