122 mm KM3 "Kitolov-2M" artillery guided weapons complex

The main purpose of the complex is to defeat light-armored vehicles and enemy objects with a guided shot from self-propelled and towed artillery systems and 122mm caliber guns, such as 2C1 or D30. Hit the target using a laser light rangefinder-target designator. The main objectives for the 122 mm KM3 "Kitolov-2M" artillery guided weapons complex:
- position РЗСО;
- the position of artillery units;
- position of the deployment of mortars;
- position of ACS;
- infantry fighting vehicles;
- armored transporters;
- dugout structures;
- fortifications;
- crossings and bridges;
- boats and small surface ships;

Possibilities of combat use of KM3 "Kitolov-2M":
- the rate of fire three shots per minute without making a shooting at single targets;
- ensuring salvo fire from artillery systems (up to 4-x guns) at the same time for different purposes;
- maintaining effective fire in bad weather conditions and incomplete ballistic data for a distance of 7 kilometers using topographic data;
- getting into the weakly protected upper projection of the selected target.

The main advantages over standard art-ammunition - the production of fire without zeroing at specified targets from the firing position of the closed type. From the first shot, the Kitolov-2M is capable of hitting a target moving at a speed of 40 km / h without zeroing. The complex is capable of significantly increasing the effective accuracy of artillery units of defeating various targets and objects with the help of a semi-active laser homing head and the power of a high-explosive fragmentation warhead. When using the KM3 art complex, Kitolov-2М does not need special storage and maintenance conditions.

KM3 "Kitolov-2M" consists of:
- controlled high-explosive fragmentation projectile;
- made in the sleeve propellant charge;
Automated complex fire control "Malachite":
- laser rangefinder-pointer with TPV;
- commander console;
- communications;

Key Features:
- length - 119 centimeters;
- weight - 28 kilogram;
- range of destruction - 13.5 kilometers;
- probability of hitting - 0.8;
- laser illumination range fixed / moving target - 7 / 5 kilometers;
- The weight of the warhead - 12.2 kilogram;
- weight of explosive - 5.3 kilogram;



Automated set of fire control means “Malachite” of portable type performs detection and laser illumination of targets, orientation and topographical binding of the selected position for firing and the position of command and observation post, quick and accurate calculation of data for the start of firing.

Information sources:
- http://www.kbptula.ru/eng/kuwr/kit.htm
- http://www.izhmash.ru/rus/product/kitolov.shtml

Comments

[Prohor]

The person illuminating the target is not a too vulnerable target?

We had an anti-tank platoon in our battalion. Launchers only got in the way all the time in the arms, everyone stumbled and cursed about them. Not a single shot in two years!
Military, a question for you: does anyone in the Russian army know how to handle such weapons, or does everyone only know how to coddle eloquently about them?

[ankh-andrej]

We have “smart” shells. And in abundance! There are no people who intelligently bring this “mind” to the goal. Classical artillery intelligence simply does not know how to work in the rear of the enemy. Her element is the front line. Special forces reconnaissance agents who know how to operate in the rear are not taught to work in tandem with artillery systems firing Krasnopol. Unmanned aerial vehicles capable of detecting enemy targets and highlighting them with a laser are not even in the long run. So high-precision homing shells rust in warehouses, and Msta-S cannons are usually fired with conventional high-explosive bombs over squares.
http://www.delobelarus.com/2008/09/17/33.html

[sergskak]

The name has amused once again.

[bulgurkhan]

destruction range - 13.5 kilometers
range of laser illumination fixed / moving target - 7/5 kilometers

And why didn’t they write down the defeat range of 113.5km?

[viktorR]

13.5 - this is the range of the whale, and 7/5 is the highlight of the target, they do not have to be deployed at one point.

[bulgurkhan]

Ok. I did not realize.

[DUTCH]

I hear a lot about this complex, but there’s no video using this complex (((((. It’s at least in the target, huh?

[ups]

In my opinion, in Ethiopia for the first time Krasnopol, they hit it, they burned three tanks on the march, in general, after that the war stopped,

[Srgsoap]

Well, and what is the innovation, as far as I know the goals with lasers, even the Americans in 1991 during the desert storm highlighted ... and now either UAVs or satellites and GPS guidance ... again behind ...

Prokhor, I agree little man a wonderful goal ... ++++

[viktorR]

Yes, no one even says that this is a novelty, just the point is that it is for a smaller caliber, which is more widespread.

[beard999]

Quote: SrgSoap

Well, and what is the innovation, as far as I know the goals, lasers still highlighted the Americans in 1991 during a desert storm ..

And who is talking about "innovation"? For us, semi-active laser-guided ammunition is far from new. Complex 1K113 "Daredevil", with an adjustable high-explosive mine 3F5, was put into service almost 30 years ago - in 1983; The 2K24 complex with the adjusted OFS 3OF38 was put into service in 1984. Both complexes were used by Soviet troops in Afghanistan. And the Kitolov-2M complex discussed here was officially adopted almost 10 years ago - December 31.12.2002, XNUMX http://www.kbptula.ru/rus/kbp/rusarmy.htm.

Quote: SrgSoap

and now either UAVs or satellites and GPS guidance ... again lagging behind ...

Actually, American UAVs (the same MQ-9) use AGM-114P or UAB GBU-12 “Paveway II” missiles as a means of destruction, which use a semi-active laser guidance system built on the same principles as in the CWM "Whaler". Yes, and in all promising weapons designed for drones (AGM-175 Griffin missiles, GBU-44 / B UAB Viper Strike, Hatchet, STM II, NAR APKWS, etc.) in guidance systems, certainly turns on the semi-active laser seeker ...
Moreover, even to the well-known JDAM kit, which initially used only the SNA (GPS) in the guidance system, the Americans finally introduced a semi-active laser seeker (LJDAM GBU-54 / B). Even in such a promising missile as JAGM, which is designed to replace the BGM-71, AGM-65, AGM-114 missiles, and which is referred to as a 4th generation ATGM in a number of sources, there is a semi-active laser seeker in the guidance system ...
So, you are completely in vain trying to imagine some semi-active laser seekers as an anachronism. Even the Americans, despite the presence of ammunition with satellite guidance systems, are not going to abandon the semi-active laser systems, nor the available, not promising weapons systems.

[Srgsoap]

I’m not trying to present the laser as an anachronism, but the current is a way to use it .... You yourself have now listed how it is used by the Americans ... and how we do it ...

But we are unfortunately behind UAVs and other things behind .... here you hope agree.

[beard999]

Quote: SrgSoap

I’m not trying to present the laser as an anachronism, but the current is a way to use it .... You yourself have now listed how it is used by the Americans ... and how we do it ...
And we are unfortunately behind UAVs and other things behind .... here you hope agree

I talked exclusively about ammunition and how to aim it at the target, and not about the means of delivery. Of course, in terms of the number, scale of development and mass application of the LHC, we are lagging behind the United States. However, like the rest of the world. Even the Israelis, who are considered the second in the world in the development of drones, are far from the United States, especially with regard to shock LHC ...
Nevertheless, the use of AFS with UAVs having a laser semi-active seeker is far from always an ideal solution. For example, low cloud cover (this is a common occurrence in the North Caucasus) may not allow the use of TSA with GOS LP from drones at all. But for artillery systems this will not be an obstacle. Artillery ammunition, when illuminated from one LCD, provides salvo (up to 4 guns), firing at one target. But the TSA used with UAVs, this can not in principle ...
Of course, the use of drones implies a larger radius of delivery of the TSA than that of the barrel artillery, as well as the implementation of illumination without human intervention. However, in the case of artillery systems, the illumination range is very significant - with the use of the LCD 1D26 Atoll, 1D29 Vizir, KSAU Malakhit, the range for MBT targets is up to 7 km, and for large-sized ones up to 15 km. At such distances, finding an operator with a target indicator that illuminates the target is not an easy task, especially since the backlight time is very short (from 1 to 12 seconds, depending on the type of ammunition). It is even more difficult to hit him (in any case, by some portable infantry weapons, at such a distance, this is not possible).
And, in general, I would not oppose, either, aviation unmanned delivery vehicles and barrel artillery. One can complement the other, but how not to replace.

[Raven1972]

They were highlighted with bombs and not with artillery shells - the speed of the KAB and the projectile was slightly different ... For comparison - Escalibur still only prototypes ...

[hawkin83]

We had 9p135 rigs and in two years we shot as many as 4 rockets!))
More of course they just ran with them, but still we were trained to use them and taken to the simulators.
The lifetime of the crew in battle is no more than two launches, and I think the person illuminating the targets for Krasnopol will live no longer.

[Prohor]

4 - and then thank God!
Did you hit?

[hawkin83]

only 2 missiles hit!

[Vyalik]

In my opinion, I read somewhere that laser illumination does not work in smoke and smoke curtains.

[Leisure]

The tank, when a laser beam hits it, automatically, or manually shoots smoke grenades. Well, it's me, so I think, tell me who knows.

[ankh-andrej]

The Shtora-1 optical-electronic suppression complex, which provides the tank with individual protection against anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) in service with most armies of the world with semi-automatic command guidance systems like TOW, Hot, Milan, Dragon, and laser homing heads such as "Maverick", "Hellfiree", "Copper head" due to the creation of active interference with their guidance. In a fraction of a second after the laser beam of the “enemy” range finder hit, the T-90 automatics warned the crew with a sound signal of danger and shot a grenade in the threatened direction, which, when exploded, created a dense aerosol cloud that completely absorbed the tank. As a result, the laser rangefinder lost its target and the ATGM lost its course.

[Old skeptic]

This complex is not intended to destroy armored vehicles (maybe, but this is not his direct task), this is the case of the ATGM, in particular the Kornet, which is protected from aerosol interference (he looks not at the target, but at the gunner, so to speak, so he does not care about the smoke and aerosol) if the gunner assumes a target in the smoke, then it will hit, for this he has an infravision camera.

This complex is designed to defeat important point targets: such as crossing, pillbox and artillery battery, etc., and as a rule there is no jamming there.
And here is what I really don’t understand why Cornets are not used for guidance of these complexes. They have about one set of equipment; they are developed by one firm and are produced at one factory. This could solve several problems at once: operational goal-setting in case of interference, gunner’s self-defense (“Cornet” has thermobaric ammunition), saturation of the battlefield with target designation tools (any trained ATGM calculation can give target designation of artillery), unification reduces production costs, etc. .d.

[ankh-andrej]

The French import our Krasnopol, so that laser illumination remains relevant at the moment and in terms of accuracy of defeat has an advantage over other methods of aiming at the target.

[Prohor]

So far, yes, but judging by Spike, he has no future ....

[iSpoiler]

Quote: Prokhor

in the Russian army, someone knows how to handle such weapons, or everyone can only eloquently echo about it

Most likely because the shot is like a fret viburnum, the loot either does not stand out, or dumbly dug ..... I think the 2nd option

[Prohor]

I think it is better to waste two Kalinas (one for ammunition, the other for training), and really, rather than throwing one out in vain, sending an excellent rocket to lie stupidly for 20 years in the warehouse.

[Old skeptic]

For a complex with the principle of "fire and forget" you need a helluva lot of clever ammunition and it is very expensive because it does not see the target to capture, but here is a relatively simple homing head, target illumination time is only 3-5 seconds. the gunner has a chance to go unnoticed or quickly change position.

[Prohor]

Backlighting is not always possible. To fly and search for the goal yourself is much more effective.
And what about "very expensive" ....
I would, for example, better to loot the worthless Olympics in Sochi would be better to let my own army. The first task of the state is to protect citizens, cheap Olympic show-offs can be bred only after solving this problem.
It is possible to return banana plantations ... sorry, oil wells to the state.

[zarko]

and what is the difference between guided and corrected projectile ???

[vylvyn]

Kitolov - sounds proudly. And then - Pinocchio, Cornflower, Bakhcha .... Now it's normal - Kitolov.

[vladimir70]

In 1988, in the group of Soviet forces in Germany there was a similar system based on the self-propelled art system 2S5 "Hyacinth S" with an active-rocket projectile caliber 152,4 mm ....... Only how to use it, the officers did not really know, and some they didn't even know how to work with an artillery compass ...

[ALEXXX1983]

the thing is good, but for our impoverished army it is a little expensive for mass use (although there is still export) besides, our officials have not recently favored Russian developments - preferring imported (albeit more expensive) ones, so it’s hardly worth expecting mass purchases