The development of the family continues: the S-13B unguided aircraft missile

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Rocket S-13B at the MAKS-2021 exposition. Photo by TASS

For several decades, the Soviet and Russian military aviation actively uses unguided missiles of the C-13 "Tulumbas" family. At the same time, the development of the family does not stop, and in recent years several new products have been created. For example, at the recent MAKS-2021 aerospace show, the S-13B Tulumbas-3 missile, featuring enhanced combat capabilities, was publicly shown for the first time.

Family update


Within the framework of the military-technical forum "Army-2019", the Novosibirsk JSC "Institute of Applied Physics" for the first time disclosed information about several new modifications of the NAR S-13. The main innovations of these projects consisted in the use of new combat units of different types, due to which the growth of characteristics and an increase in efficiency were ensured. Together with other missiles, they showed the new S-13B.



New messages about the S-13B appeared on the eve of the MAKS-2021 aerospace show. Concern "Techmash", holding "Technodinamika" and the Novosibirsk artificial fiber plant (NZIV) announced the first public display of a promising NAR. They also clarified the characteristics and capabilities of such a rocket. In particular, it was argued that the S-13B combines the combat qualities of two other products of the family - the S-13OF high-explosive fragmentation missile and the S-13T penetrating missile.

As planned, on the opening day of MAKS-2021, a number of aviation weapons were demonstrated at the Techmash stand, incl. rocket "Tulumbas-3". Within the framework of the salon, a meeting was held on the development of aircraft weapons. At this event, Tekhmash showed the capabilities of the new rocket.


Cut layouts of new missiles of the S-13 family. Photo "Techmash"

S-13B is positioned as a multifunctional ASP, suitable for engaging a wide range of targets. The developers assume that weapon with such a combination of characteristics and capabilities, it will attract the attention of the Russian army, as well as find foreign customers. However, the presence of interest from buyers has not yet been reported.

Technical advantages


The S-13B product was developed on the basis of existing units and elements borrowed from the previous NAR family. A new composition of key components has been selected, giving a new combination of characteristics. First of all, we paid attention to improving the combat characteristics.

S-13B is made in a standard cylindrical case with a caliber of 122 mm. The total length of the rocket is 2,85 m. In the tail, the standard empennage of the C-13 is preserved, which is deployed after exiting the launch rail. The layout of the rocket is standard: the nose contains a warhead, and the tail contains a solid-propellant engine. Starting weight - 77 kg.

The missile carries a high-power concrete-piercing warhead. The warhead weighing 41 kg has a thickened strong head fairing, providing penetration of soil or reinforced concrete. Inside there is an explosive charge weighing 5,6 kg with a bottom fuse. The demolition is controlled by the so-called. initiation unit with three operating modes. The warhead is triggered upon contact with the target, as well as with a small or large deceleration after penetration. The choice of the mode is carried out in accordance with the nature of the target before departure.


Concrete-piercing S-13T. Photo by Rosoboronexport

The parameters of the warhead have not yet been specified. At the same time, it is known that the S-13T missile with similar capabilities is capable of penetrating up to 1 m of concrete or 6 m of soil. Under blasting, destruction of 20 square meters of concrete surface is ensured. Apparently, the new NAR C-13B has the same or better characteristics.

The solid-propellant engine used provides a flight range of 1 to 4 km. Thus, in terms of maximum range, the S-13B surpasses the S-13 missile and is at the level of the S-13T. Precision parameters are not disclosed.

The promising Tulumbas-3 can be used with standard B-13L launchers. Accordingly, the carriers of such weapons can be a wide range of existing and future domestic aircraft and helicopters. Apparently, modifications to the design of the unit or the carrier are not required, but a minor update of the weapon control systems is required.

Specialization and versatility


The basic missile of the family, the S-13, was once created as a means of dealing with runways, concrete shelters and other structures of the enemy. Its penetrating warhead weighing 33 kg was supposed to penetrate reinforced concrete and soil, and then hit the internal volumes of the building. Later, this NAR was modernized: the C-13T product received a heavier and more effective warhead with improved penetration characteristics.


Launch of S-13 missiles. Photo by Rosoboronexport

In addition, with the use of a housing and an engine, incl. their modified versions, new modifications of the rocket for various purposes were created. Several variants of high-explosive fragmentation and space-detonating missiles have appeared. Due to this, it became possible to effectively defeat a wider range of ground targets - from manpower to armored vehicles.

The NAR line, presented in 2019, continues this logic of the family's development. In fact, it was about a new generation of missiles with old missions and improved tactical and technical characteristics. In particular, in one of the later projects, the firing range was brought to 5-6 km.

In the last C-13B project, it was decided to abandon specialization, and the rocket was made universal. Due to the different modes of the initiation unit, it retains all the capabilities of a concrete-piercing ammunition, but at the same time acquires the functions of a high-explosive fragmentation and can hit a wider range of targets. In addition, a new engine was used to improve flight performance, and compatibility with existing aircraft and helicopters was retained.

Thus, the S-13B rocket combines the strong qualities of several previous products of the family at once. This is expected to attract the attention of customers and ensure commercial success for the new NAR. According to some sources, the first results of this kind have already been obtained - after the tests, Tulumbas-3 was put into service. Export prospects are not yet clear, although there is every reason for optimistic estimates.


Launch of the S-8OFP rocket. Photo "Techmash"

Promising direction


Despite the active development of the direction of guided weapons, unguided missiles retain a significant role in the range of aviation ammunition and are widely used in exercises and real combat work. As a result, the development of the NAR does not stop in our country. New samples of such weapons appear regularly, with some differences from previous developments.

In parallel with the work on the S-13B, the development of the 80-mm NAR S-8OFP "Armor-piercer" with a penetrating high-explosive fragmentation warhead is being carried out. These products will enter the arsenals of military aviation no earlier than 2023. Due to this, new weapons with improved characteristics and wider capabilities will appear in two NAR classes at once.

It is quite possible that the potential of the S-8 and S-13 missiles is still not fully utilized, which is why Tulumbas-3 and Armored fighters will not become the last models in their families. Time will show how the capabilities of unguided missiles will change as a result of future upgrades. And for the near future, the main task in this context will be the refinement of the S-8OFP and S-13B.
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  1. +14
    3 August 2021 04: 33
    All this is great, but when using the NAR, the aircraft is forced to enter the zone of action of anti-aircraft artillery and MANPADS.
    1. 0
      5 August 2021 11: 31
      NARs are used in order to chase the bearded, which has the maximum that is MANPADS. It is inexpedient for me to work on bearded cars with expensive ATGMs. Yet again. Where it is necessary to work on the area, either free-fall bombs (the benefit of aiming has been resolved) or NARs.
  2. +8
    3 August 2021 06: 17
    USA upgraded HYDRA 70 NAR to controlled APKWS.
    https://topwar.ru/117923-v-ssha-modernizirovali-neupravlyaemuyu-raketu-hydra-70-prinyatuyu-na-vooruzhenie-v-1948-godu.html
    Why don't we take this path.
    1. +1
      3 August 2021 06: 58
      Quote: riwas
      Why don't we take this path.

      well, maybe in * tsat years, when the gloomy experiments of different offices end

      When the control system for such a missile will fit into such a missile and will become cheaper than an airplane.
      1. +3
        3 August 2021 08: 19
        Quote: Jacket in stock
        When the control system for such a missile will fit into such a missile and will become cheaper than an airplane.

        There are developments! This is the "Threat" kit with the RCIC guidance system ... and the S-13L with the ACAG guidance system ....
        1. 0
          3 August 2021 08: 31
          Quote: Nikolaevich I
          There are developments

          Yes, in fact, there is an ancient-ancient Krasnopol, for example. It already has a semi-active seeker and a control system, and all this is placed in the dimensions of the warhead from the NAR. Screw all business to one another.
          We only need a decision from the Ministry of Defense that we need it.
    2. 0
      3 August 2021 07: 51
      Quote: riwas
      USA upgraded NAR HYDRA 70 to controlled APKWS

      Whoever does not modernize hydras. Here is not a complete list of guided missiles based on this NAR:

      The BAE Systems Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II
      US Navy Low-Cost Guided Imaging Rocket (LOGIR)
      Lockheed Martin Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR)
      The ATK / Elbit Guided Advanced Tactical Rocket - Laser (GATR-L)
      Raytheon talon
      Thales Group Roquette à Précision Métrique (RPM).
      Forges de Zeebrugge SAL-Laser Guided Rocket (FZ275 LGR)

      Turkish controlled analogue of Cirit:


      But they are still giving birth to us. They send patrolling under MANPADS and large-caliber machine guns at the ready with antediluvian NAR, as in World War II.
    3. 0
      3 August 2021 10: 41
      USA upgraded HYDRA 70 NAR to controlled APKWS.
      https://topwar.ru/117923-v-ssha-modernizirovali-neupravlyaemuyu-raketu-hydra-70-prinyatuyu-na-vooruzhenie-v-1948-godu.html
      Why don't we take this path.

      They have a lot of money, they are modernizing today, tomorrow I will write off, after tomorrow they will be sold to Ukraine)))
  3. +1
    3 August 2021 07: 33
    Comparing this TSA with the darkness of YouTube videos about the combat use of MAM and Bayraktar in Karabakh, I would like to say: "Why did you upgrade this S-13 log?"
    1. +1
      3 August 2021 08: 55
      A rocket and a bomb are 2 big differences. The bomb needs a certain high altitude and a relatively high carrier speed, it is impossible to work on moving targets. The same Turks put guided missiles on ground vehicles and unmanned boats, there is a similar project in Russia, but on the NAR.
      The main issue here is the installation of a semi-active laser seeker and control systems.

      1. 0
        3 August 2021 11: 21
        S-13 - concrete bunk for areal purposes made of concrete, that is, urban development with the so-called. "bandit formations",)
  4. +6
    3 August 2021 08: 46
    All this, of course, is good, but you need to look at what the "partners" offer, and the partners offer NURS ZUNI 127mm. Another thing is interesting. NURS arr 1957 has an effective range of 5 miles. There is a choice of warheads. For example Semi-armor-piercing warhead MK24. With which ZUNI (I remind you of 1957) can penetrate: 50mm of armor, 910mm of reinforced concrete, 9.1m of earth cover. For example. Cumulative fragmentation MK32, which penetrates 457mm of armor at an encounter angle of 0 degrees, or, if set to fragmentation, forms more than 2000 6.35mm fragments that have sufficient kinetic energy to penetrate any light vehicle at a distance of up to 20m.
    I'm just interested in how S13B is compared with ZUNI (arr 1957) both in effective range, and, most importantly, in ACCURACY. But judging by article C-13B, it is inferior to ZUNI. Moreover, in 2009, a ZUNI version with a semi-active laser seeker was successfully tested. That is, it turns out an excellent guided missile at a price that is several times cheaper than the Hellfire or even Tou. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuni_(rocket)
    1. +4
      3 August 2021 10: 41
      Well, there is very little that can be compared with the Zuni in terms of the effectiveness of real application - an aircraft carrier put out of action for a long period, dozens of destroyed aircraft, a bunch of 200s and 300s.
      In general, the data that you provided is a typical example of advertising. For example, the maximum flight range that Zuni, that C-13, taking into account the speed and altitude of the carrier, is something over 70 km, when launching with a climb at an angle of 45 °, and the practical range is determined exclusively by the circular probable deviation and requirements for the probability of hitting the target, and here you can play within wide limits, ascribing, rounding and admitting. It is strange that the Americans did not write 30 or 40 km - you can shoot without any problems, another thing is that you will not get anywhere. In the same way, and on the breakthrough of soil and concrete - soils and concrete are different. Yes, and the warhead of the S-13 also has many options. And it's not a fact that Zunya is doing well with them. In any case, a steel GGE with a diameter of 6,35 mm is unlikely to pierce even an armored personnel carrier, but heavy fragments of the S-13OF will definitely pierce, although they are formed 4-5 times less. You don’t think that our designers are fools, and they mold too heavy fragments just like that - there is apparently a TK, with the requirements of hitting specific types of equipment with a given probability at a certain distance. The same with the Americans, apparently provided for the defeat of unprotected manpower and unarmored equipment.
      1. +1
        3 August 2021 19: 16
        You yourself admitted what a magnificent shell - ZUNI. One 127mm rocket barely burned the aircraft carrier to Benin's mother. And TWICE. First, Forrestal was almost killed, and then the Enterprise :-). No one has such a missile - one hit and an aircraft carrier undergoing overhaul. TWICE, this is no longer an accident but a wunderwaffe :-). In general, these episodes with ZUNI missiles reminded me of a fragment from the cartoon "The Simpsons". When Grandpa Simpson says "I took part in the landing in Normandy, in World War II, I destroyed 5 tanks, and for this Rommel himself sent me the Iron Cross." The American army, destroyed 5 AMERICAN tanks - for which Rommel, deservedly, sent him the Iron Cross. :-) In general, to understand the cartoon The Simpsons, you have to live here :-).

        And about Zuni. That is, the effectiveness of the ammunition is CONFIRMED. By the way, I am absolutely sure that in the USSR and Russia, and not such garbage happened, with different ammunition, and in the Army, and in the Air Force and in the Navy. Also with 200m, 300m. Remind me? Only if I remind you that instead of discussing the quality of missiles, we will slip into mutual insults. And I don't need it.
        With regard to the accuracy of missiles. That American missiles were always ahead of Russian and Soviet in accuracy. It's just that the quality of the fuel is better (and therefore the rockets themselves are more expensive).
        By the way, the latest serial modifications - with the Mk71 Mod 1 engine (engine weight 36kg). Gives traction 36kN, within 1,8 seconds the speed ON THE MARCH 2600 km / h, that is, 720 m / s. Higher than Tulumbas.
        According to what I've read. American missiles are much more accurate and accurate. Even Airwar.ru writes this, and Wikipedia repeats that the effective range of C13 (not maximum, but effective) is 3-4 km. At the same time, ZUNI, according to the documents, has an effective (not maximum) range of 8 km. By the way, ALL NURSs are used from a dive. Although one of our guys with a ZUNI missile, while flying on an A-4, managed to shoot down a MiG-17. However, some Japanese anti-aircraft gunner managed to shoot down an American 454kg bomb :-)

        YOU said correctly about the fragments. Those 2000 fragments of 6.35mm each are designed to defeat light vehicles: trucks, mobile devices, etc. In the US Air Force, tanks, armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles are fired at with either ATGMs or AGM65, NURSs - only as a last resort. There is enough money. We do not mind the enemy tank / BMP ptursa .. By the way, the same warhead, penetrates 450mm of armor. So there is enough for any concrete building. The MK24 warhead (of the 60s, by the way), penetrates 914mm REINFORCED CONCRETE - that is, reinforced concrete, reinforced concrete. Just like the new modification of your C-130.
  5. +2
    3 August 2021 16: 47
    What is another "tulumbas" in the hollow? Russophobes are not encrypted at all.
  6. +4
    3 August 2021 16: 52
    In such a caliber, you only need to managed air weapons.
    NAR - use only old stocks.
    And as a mobilization reserve - NAR blocks 80 mm.
  7. 0
    4 August 2021 13: 56
    Yeah. NAR "promising" weapon in KhKhI. century. :)
    This kind of economy is like sabotage.

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