Warriors of Ukraine’s Separate Presidential brigade named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi destroyed a russian infantry fighting vehicle with the Ukrainian-made Stugna anti-tank missile system in the Bakhmut area.
That is according to a post on the brigades official page on Facebook.
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"Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian IFV-2 with the Ukrainian Stugna in the Bakhmut area. The 4th Mechanized Battalion of the Presidential Brigade is operating," the post reads.
The post is accompanied by the relevant video showing a combat work of Stugna-P ATGM system’s crew.
Defense Express note:
The Stugna-P is produced by Kyiv-based Luch Design Bureau.
The laser-guided system has a long-range and ample penetration capability.
The launcher weighs 71-pounds and must be placed on a tripod. It has a thermal image camera with a television guidance unit. The control mechanism is in a laptop with a joystick that allows the soldier to guide the missiles manually or leave it in fire-and-forget mode and let the laser guidance mode do its damage.
There are lots of videos in the Internet that show the trajectory of the missile flying straight then arching upward to zoom down on top of a target tank.
The anti-tank weapon has a range from 328 feet to 3.1 miles. The flight time is a few seconds to 25 seconds depending on the target’s range. The missile’s warhead can be a high-explosive anti-tank or high-explosive fragmentary round. It can penetrate through explosive-reactive armor.
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