AT-15 Springer [9M123 Khrizantema] Russia 2005

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DB Selector

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Baseline

AT-9 Spiral II origins with much heavier warhead

Hypothetical

No

Name

AT-15 Springer [9M123 Khrizantema] Russia 2005

Length (m)

2.05

Width/Span (m)

0.3

Diameter (m)

0.15

Weight (kg)

46kg

Range (nm)

3.2

Target Altitude / Depth (ft)

0 to 4000m?

Target Speed (kts)

0 to 400kts

Launch Altitude / Depth (ft)

0 to 4000m ASL

LaunchSpeed (kts)

0 to 200kts based on use by Mi-28N

Warhead

8kg HEAT Tandem 1200mm RHA penetration and Thermobaric F variant

Targets

Helicopter, Surface Vessel, Land Structure - Soft, Land Structure - Hardened, Mobile Target - Soft, Mobile Target - Hardened, Mobile Target - Personnel

CEP (m)

2

Sensors

ACLOS laser command guidance alternate microwave link radar command guided, this is Not SARH but similar to it. Launcher vehicle radar can detect target but commands are sent to the missile via laser or MmW datalink. Type of guidance is set at launch according to conditions.

Weapon Codes

Illuminate at Launch, Launcher Occupied During Guidance, Level Cruise Flight

Comments

In service as ground launched ATGM from 2005. Russian ground forces Naval Infantry and VDV. Shares ancestry from KBM bureau with the Spiral but with larger warhead designed to destroy modern M1 type tanks over frontal arc. Combined guidance via laser command or MMW datalink channels is set at launch so its either one or other once launched not both (not sure how this can be modelled?) . BMP3 9P157-2 ground vehicle twin mount ground vehicle. 15 reloads. Late version has thermal imager, first version didnt. *Touted in defence exhibitions as a weapon for Mi-28N/NM replacing Spiral II but would only use laser command unless a very cumbersome heath robinson style podded MmW radar is carried occupying one pylon to give alternate guidance channel. Mi28NM appears to have potentially MmW radar illumination datalink built in?

Sources

https://web.archive.org/web/20100916110713/http://kbm.ru/en/product/atgm/khrizantema-s Historic site. http://www.military-today.com/missiles/khrizantema.htm https://old.weaponsystems.net/weaponsystem/HH06%20-%20AT-15%20Spinger%20(9M123).html https://youtu.be/jhqgFivAWcI https://youtu.be/AuNdE-Gun4Y Watch with sound off? http://bastion-opk.ru/khrizantema/ https://www.kbm.ru/en/production/ptrk/530.html https://www.kbm.ru/en/production/ptrk/479.html

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Libya Azerbaijan use it. https://vpk.name/en/536348_the-best-anti-tank-missile-is-adapted-to-the-mi-28nm-helicopter.html shows the upgrade Mi-28NM and radar pod arrangement. Despite what the article says this isn't the RuAF Mi-28NM but a factory upgrade offering to the existing Mi-28, retains the old "snoopy" style nose radio emitter which is absent on the full Mi-28NM. It also quotes the air launched range as 10km/5.4nm. https://rg.ru/2022/07/15/sverhtochnye-raketnye-hrizantemy-s-gromiat-ukrainskih-nacionalistov.html This names the Mi-28NE version as Khrizantema VM and repeats the 10km range.

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The Khrizantema VM did not enter service until 2018 following experience on Syria - it is highly unlikely to be used by the Mi-28N as this only had radio command guidance for the AT-9 9M120 it may seem pedantry but the later variant AT-9 9M120-1 was produced for the KA-52 to utilise ACLOS laser command guidance when the Vikhr was put on hold. Production quantities of Vikhr were only ordered circa 2013 amd delivered in 2015. To totally confuse this the fire control system for the KA-52 using Ataka was given the name Shturm baffling in using the same name as the old AT-6 missile but not related.