S-13 rocket
The S-13 is a family of unguided air - to-surface missiles in the caliber of 122 mm, which was developed by the Soviet Air Force for their combat aircraft and helicopters and is still used by the Russian Air Force and in most CIS countries. The rockets are designed primarily to combat semi-hard and hard targets on the ground.
Development
In the 1970s, the JSC Institute of Applied Physics developed the rocket S-13 to make with this weapon unusable slopes by craters and armored aircraft shelters ( Hardened Aircraft Shelter ) and to penetrate bunkers. With a caliber between the widely used 80 - mm rocket S- 8 and the 240 - mm rocket S-24 fulfills a role similar to the American 127 -mm Zuni rocket. The S -13 is conventionally constructed in a cylindrical shape and has a solid - rocket propulsion and folding wings that unfold after launch tube. The first trials began in 1973, but not until 1983 was the missile to enter service. Usually, five S-13 rockets from a tubular starting container type B 13L to start. The rocket is designed so that their use is still perfectly possible at -60 ° C and 60 ° C. The missile can penetrate and produced in the explosion 1500-1800 Splitter 1 m reinforced concrete, covered by up to 3 m earth. When felling on a slope you could rupture a crater of 20 m².
Carrier aircraft
Combat aircraft
- MiG- 23bn " Flogger "
- MiG- 27 " Flogger "
- MiG- 29 " Fulcrum "
- Su -17 " Fitter " / Su -20 " Fitter " / Su -22 " Fitter "
- Su -24 " Fencer "
- Su-25 " Frogfoot " / Su- 39 " Frogfoot "
- Su- 27 " Flanker " / Su -30 " Flanker " / Su -34 " Fullback "
Helicopter
- Mi-24 " Hind "
- Mi-28 " Havoc"
- Ka - 29TB "Helix"
- Ka-50 "Black Shark" / Ka-52 " Alligator "