Re: GMS Air

Daniel Staberg wrote:

> Indeed the newer models of the RBS-70 do come with a small HEAT
> warhead, it caused a slight bit of panic when the army realised that
the
> original pre-fragmented warehead wouldn't knock out a Mi-24 Hind or
the
> Su-25 Frogfoot due to their heavy armour. So Bofors quickly got
togheter > a new missile with a HEAT warhead.

More like a HEDP warhead - a *small* shape-charge cone, and a fairly
large pre-fragmented casing. Fortunately aircraft are less likely than
AFVs to have reactive or other add-on armour :-/

Best wishes,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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