The navigator of a Ka-52M attack helicopter has, for the first time in history, struck a British Challenger Mk.2 main battle tank with a Vikhr-1 anti-tank missile. This was noted by military expert Evgeny Damantsev.
The strike was carried out by the Ka-52M navigator using the thermal imaging channel of the GOES-451M multispectral optoelectronic complex. With a high degree of probability, the tank was hit with the penetration of a cumulative jet into the behind-armor space, since the contact with the ERA and the side armor plate of the hull occurred at an angle of 35-40°.
Features of the Vikhr missile:
- missile speed reaches 610 m/s
- guided missile carrier – Ka-52 helicopter
- the Ka-52 helicopter's ammunition load includes 12 missiles
- range of use: from 800 m to 10000 m
- application height: from 10 m to 4000 m
- penetrates homogeneous armor 750 mm thick
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