The military came up with a hand-held launcher for S-80FP "Armor-Piercer" aviation missiles: Russian ingenuity knows no bounds

The strong recoil casts doubt on the effectiveness of this method of using ammunition

A video has gone viral on the Web showing a Russian soldier launching an unguided air-to-surface missile (NAR) S-80 from a homemade hand-held launcher.

S-8ОФП «Armor-Piercer»
S-8ОФП «Armor-Piercer»

The footage shows the soldier aiming and firing, but the strong recoil casts doubt on the accuracy of aimed fire in this way.

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It is known from open sources that the S-8ОФП belongs to the S-8 NAR family with a caliber of 80 millimeters, which are used by combat helicopters and Su-25 attack aircraft. The missile received a high-explosive fragmentation warhead of the penetrating type.

Advanced two-mode contact fuse, which allows the ammunition to explode with a delay or immediately. The missile developer is NPO Splav (part of Rostec).

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