Belarusian military tested a light grenade launcher "Sapphire"

At the 227th Borisov combined-arms training ground, the Belarusian military tested a lightweight multipurpose grenade launcher of domestic production. This took place in the presence of Dmitry Pantus, head of the State Military-Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus.

This message was published by the press service of this state structure.

The test consisted of firing at a two-by-two-meter catcher target. The distance from it to the grenade launcher was 133 meters. A transport and launch container with a grenade inside was installed on a tripod from an SPG-9 anti-tank grenade launcher. For this, a bracket of a special design was used. The shooter aimed using mechanical guidance.

The shooting was recorded on video, which was analyzed after each shot. During the analysis, the external ballistics of the grenade, the operation of the jet engine, as well as the reaction of the machine and the container were checked.

The tests allegedly showed the correctness of all the technical solutions applied by the developers. This means that product development is close to completion.

The multipurpose grenade launcher complex "Sapphire" of 60 mm caliber and weighing 4 kilograms is a light rocket launcher with an unguided grenade. It is designed to combat modern mainstream combat tanks, armored and unarmored targets, as well as to defeat enemy personnel located in bunkers, bunkers, light shelters and various structures.

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[Peak]

The Sapphire multipurpose grenade launcher complex of 60 mm caliber and weighing 4 kilograms is a light rocket launcher with an unguided grenade. It is designed to combat modern main battle tanks, armored and unarmored targets, as well as to defeat enemy personnel located in bunkers, bunkers, light shelters and various structures.

Interestingly , what did the Belarusian brothers do, shoving into the dimensions of the RPG-18, a grenade capable of hitting modern MBT?
After all, "Fly", a modern tank is already "too tough" ..

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Now, it seems, small nuclear charges are in trend!

[Peak]

Quote: Cat Alexandrovich

Now, it seems, small nuclear charges are in trend!

Had to meet information about the Soviet "atomic small ammunition", "atomic bullets"

Only about this to anyone! Top-secret

[nobody75]

It's true ... They've even been tested. Only the isotopes decayed rapidly.
Sincerely

[riwas]

only the isotopes decayed rapidly.

Well, yes. To store bullets from California-252, a 110 kg refrigeration unit with liquid ammonia was used, which maintained a temperature of -15 ° C. The cartridges were stored in special copper plates 15 cm thick with slots for 30 cartridges.
https://www.eg.ru/society/444991/

7,62 mm atomic bullets for the Kalashnikov light machine gun

[Grizli-666]

Have you also read that April issue of Popular Mechanics?)))

[alch3mist]

Interestingly yes, what did the Belarusian brothers do, shoving into the dimensions of the RPG-18, a grenade capable of hitting modern MBTs?

Depleted uranium? Homeopathy would be very helpful for pshekam ...

[Orange bigg]

A light grenade launcher is unlikely to take on a modern tank, but you need something heavier, for example the Mixture grenade launcher undergoing state tests.

A new "pocket artillery" has been developed for the Russian infantry. The Smes universal grenade-and-flame thrower complex, developed for the third-generation domestic combat equipment Sotnik, is already being tested. In terms of its power, a disposable grenade launcher will not be inferior to a howitzer projectile, and its modern sight will make it possible to destroy enemy tanks and shelters at night as easily as during the day. The emergence of such weapons will provide soldiers with superiority in urban combat, experts say.

https://iz.ru/1048923/anton-lavrov-roman-kretcul/gremuchaia-smes-novyi-shturmovoi-granatometnyi-kompleks-vykhodit-na-ispytaniia

In Russia, the development of the newest assault grenade launcher complex 6S20 "Mix" is nearing completion, sources in the military-industrial complex told Izvestia. A trial batch of his thermobaric grenades of a volumetric explosion is being made for state tests.

According to the documents on the development schedule (available to Izvestia), the end of state tests is scheduled for the fall of 2021. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Mixture is being developed taking into account the combat experience gained in modern conflicts. The 6S20 will include both an anti-tank grenade and an assault grenade with thermobaric charges of a volumetric explosion. These are especially effective for warfare in urban areas.

... The exact technical characteristics of the new complex were not disclosed. It is known that the grenades will have a caliber of 72,5 mm - the standard for Russian grenade launchers. At the same time, due to the use of the latest technologies, it is promised to increase the power of the thermobaric warhead. The anti-tank version will receive a tandem warhead capable of dealing with modern reactive armor.

https://vpk.name/news/434140_gremuchaya_smes_novyi_shturmovoi_granatometnyi_kompleks_vyhodit_na_ispytaniya.html

[Nikolaevich I]

Yes, there were such messages ... Only here the name "Mixture" somehow does not sound! I propose to announce a competition for the VO for the best name! For example, I offer several at once to choose from: 1. "Mix"; 2. "Compote"; 3. "Uzvar", 4. "Cocktail" ... I can suggest a name for the Belarusian bazooka too! "Sapphire" sounds somehow ... not threatening! But sapphire is still a stone! So I suggest the name "Cobblestone"!

[Orange bigg]

... I propose to announce a competition for the VO for the best name!

Yeah. "Vodka with beer."

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: OrangeBigg

Yeah. "Vodka with beer."

So we will write down ... "Ruff"! A good choice ! I also had it ... in stock!

[Orange bigg]

I have a bad first association as I read the post for some reason with a toilet brush. Honestly, the first thing that came to mind. On the other hand, it may be suitable. Ruff it seems like he removes any G, the same task will face the new grenade launcher to remove any G. Well, you get the idea.

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: OrangeBigg

On the other hand, it may be suitable

How else ? You said yourself ... "beer with vodka"! And according to the folk - "ruff"!

[Dkuznecov]

Murk. Why is it so hard to guess?

[Cananecat]

Quote: Nikolaevich I

So I suggest the name "Cobblestone"!

As I understand it, the proletariat sits in you more than deeply. )))

[Andrey Moskvin]

When describing "thermobaric", it is not necessary to mention the volumetric explosion.

[Orange bigg]

Quote: Andrey Moskvin

When describing "thermobaric", it is not necessary to mention the volumetric explosion.

This is not a question for me, but for journalists. They wrote the article, I just quoted it.

[Revival]

Here you are, according to the current trend, and attracted for "like / repost")))

[Alex777]

In the photo - a fighter is standing close to the wall.
Straight scary for him. If you shmalnite ...

[Vikxnumx]

In the photo - a fighter is standing close to the wall.
Straight scary for him. If you shmalnite ...

Armbrust (FRG) sixty shaggy year ...

[ja-ja-vw]

Quote: PiK

What did the Belarusian brothers do, shoving into the dimensions of the RPG-18, a grenade capable of hitting modern MBT?

this is what the journalists have done about the MM-60, which "amazes" modern MBTs

dimensions (750 mm long) and light weight (4,2 kg), the Sapphire grenade launcher is capable of hitting targets at a maximum range of up to 1000 meters from the shooter. In this case, a shot with a caliber of 61 mm has an effective (aimed) firing range of 450 m, and normal penetration of homogeneous steel armor is at least 300 mm.

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60 mm

vs

Armor equivalents against BOPS:
T-64A, B, T-72 = 370 mm, after development, reflection = 450 mm.
Т-72А = 400 mm, reflection after RCD = 480 mm.
T-64BV = 440 mm.
T-80B = 385 mm, after development, reflection = 465 mm.
T-80BV, U = 475 mm.
T-72B = 570 mm.
no, well, if in the stern, or strictly along the normal, but better on top of the tower ... then YES

as well

Light weight, compact design indicated a much wider range of combat use of the Sapphire grenade launcher, which can effectively apply How to combat modern main battle tanks, armored, lightly armored and unarmored targets, as well as with enemy manpower in personal body armor located in bunkers, bunkers, light field-type shelters, as well as urban and rural structures.

[Normann]

The potatoes are inside)

[Tolik21]

You go to this site, and in the first news your hometown is mentioned.) I wonder what they came up with.

[Jacket in stock]

I remember my first trip to the training ground, then BOPSs from a tank gun were caught with a high-speed movie camera. When it was turned on in the entire power grid, the voltage sagged so much that I had to fence a separate circuit for my equipment. Only for acceleration kilometers of the film was worn out.
And now what technology has come to.
How convenient it has become with video cameras.

[Peak]

Quote: Jacket in stock

What technology has come to.
How convenient it has become with video cameras.

Yes, they used to tinker with film and photo film, but now, recording from a camera "online" is always available, in any form and through any information transfer channels.

[Aviator_]

What was filmed, Krasnogorskie VSK-5, VSK-6? The last time I shot with VSK-6 was in 2006. And there are no domestic or foreign video cameras with this resolution.

[Kushka]

[quote = PiK] [quote] RPG-18, a grenade capable of hitting modern MBT?
After all, "Fly", a modern tank is already "too tough" .. [/ quote] Will Abrams take it? Warsaw on the border with Belarus will place Abrams tanks purchased in the USA. This is a modification of the M1A2 Abrams SEP v3. It is planned to place 250 military vehicles on the border. This was announced by the Minister of National Defense of Poland Mariusz Blaszczak, according to Polskie radio.
"250 of the most modern tanks will be deployed in the east of our country. This will help strengthen security in Poland," the minister said.
Under the agreement, Washington must deliver 250 tanks to Warsaw. Deliveries will begin in 2022. American tanks will cost Poland $ 23 billion.

[Jacket in stock]

Quote: Kushka

Will Abrams take it?

Will take.
If farmers with a machine gun know how to disable it, then even such a small grenade has a lot of chances.

[Kushka]

That sho, Polish 23 lard down the drain?

[Jacket in stock]

Quote: Kushka

That sho, Polish 23 lard down the drain?

Конечно.
Because there will be no war, and they will simply rot like before this T72, T62, T34 ...

[Constanty]

Poland was not armed with T-62 tanks

[Tolik21]

Here are just a little tales to tell. In that case, the APU was damaged from the DShK, the fuel leaked out, hit the MTO and the tank burned out.

[Sanichsan]

Quote: Tolik21

In that case, the APU was damaged from the DShK, the fuel leaked out, hit the MTO and the tank burned.

that is, the fact takes place and this is not a fairy tale

[Tolik21]

If I throw off a photo of a BMP 2 piercing a T-72 in the forehead of the hull (hit a weakened mechanical drive shaft) in Nagorno-Karabakh, this is the same fact and not a fairy tale, does it give me a reason to shout that 72 is a bad tank? We seem to be adults, and therefore we may not be raising isolated cases to the absolute.

[Region-25.rus]

If his dehkans with a machine gun are able to incapacitate

It was a long time ago. when the APU was outside the armored hull on the rear wall of the tower. It had long been hidden under the armor.

[Peak]

Quote: Kushka

Will Abrams take it?

Since it is reported about "modern MBT", then you should know - first of all, we are talking about NATO tanks, including the "Abrams".

This is the way it was with us and the Belarusians from the USSR.
It is in the Ukraine that they can now invent something as a counteraction to the T-90 and "Armata", and Belarus is still true to tradition, everything is sharpened against the West.

[Constanty]

American tanks will cost Poland $ 23 billion.

A small amendment - 23 billion zlotys - and so much - 92 million zlotys apiece, even with a rich package of spare parts, ammunition, evacuation vehicles, etc.
A purely political purchase - otherwise the Korean K2 or even the Japanese Type 10 would have bought half the price.

[Kushka]

Where did you read about zloty?

[Constanty]

Łączny koszt program może wynieść do 23,3 mld złotych, przy czym kwota ta obejmuje również zakup amunicji czy rozbudowę infrastruktury. Środki na ten cel wyasygnowane zostaną spoza budżetu Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, zgodnie z przyjętą uchwałą Rady Ministrów.

https://www.defence24.pl/abramsy-dla-polski-w-pigulce-komentarz

[Denis812]

What is this nonsense about 23 billion dollars for 250 tanks? It seems like we bought it for 8.
Can you confuse bucks and zlotys?
Do not confuse them, my salary is in zlotys, I know the difference well :)

[Sergey Kulikov_3]

Well, Poland will put the Abrams on its border, let them stand, why take them?

[tralflot1832]

Why 133 meters? What can it be connected with?

[SaLaR]

the figure is beautiful

[tralflot1832]

I tried to translate into English feet, inches, yards, nothing beautiful came out. So Lope is a kerdyk at 133 meters. Note!

[Roma 1977]

-Three hundred thirty!
- I agree!
- To each!
- I agree!

[Kerensky]

Why 133 meters? What can it be connected with?

It's more convenient for designers ...

[nonsense]

it seems to me the Belarusians found a use for ammunition from the ancient caliber RPG-16 ... That one was also considered an RPG capable of fighting MBT, and the caliber was 58 mm with something there.

[Grizli-666]

All the same, they cannot do like Basalt ... To increase the range and accuracy, ours have an insert-pipe, which flies out during the flight of a grenade, thereby increasing the length of the launch tube and, accordingly, performance characteristics. And here, with such a small size, it just flies out, it's a mess. The Belarusians could not comply with the rules of the grenade launcher. The only thing that is interesting is the ability to quadruple it, so that the launcher would be 2-3-4 shots. Like to cover with a couple of pieces without rearranging the sight.

[Grizli-666]

This is what a spark of shots looks like

[Grizli-666]

And this is our analogue of the BUR. In the photo there is a larger grenade launcher, but a similar extension liner is visible, plus the engine anti-mass is fired from behind.
That allows firstly to increase the accuracy (does not pull the grenade launcher like RPG-7 forward)
Secondly, it reduces the flame of the shot from behind, which allows you to safely shoot from indoors.
As already said, the Belarusian has only 2 relative pluses. This is the ability to hold up to 4 grenade launchers, which is convenient when shooting at scattered infantry and when using small robots.
And the fact that they decided not to save and launchers are placed on each grenade launcher, and we have a special launcher separately (in the form of a pistol grip).
What is more economical, and not that much slower (there is a spring-loaded piston in front and when you shoot you press the button and it throws an empty shot pipe

[Daniil Dmitrienko]

Recently at the Army2021 I studied this Drill in detail, there is no element that extends the turbine there.

[SPQR]

The fact that he shoots is certainly good, but I would like to learn more about the performance characteristics, since the anti-tank purpose of the product is announced.
It's just that "light" and anti-tank, somehow, personally causes conflicting feelings in me ...

[Daniil Dmitrienko]

It is high time to push the rocket motor and the control system into such a caliber and dimensions, simpler, but so that the grenade flew farther and hit more accurately. The Americans did something in their pike

[Zaurbek]

Better in an RPG ... there is an over-caliber grenade

[Zaurbek]

60mm. What will he pierce? And where will it fly?

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

The very idea of ​​a small grenade launcher seems dubious. When fired, a grenade launcher is at great risk, and if we are to launch something under enemy fire, then something very weighty. And for close tasks there is a small multiply charged grenade launcher in the form of GM-94.

[Azimuth]

A doomed project.
With their level of electronics development, it would be better to modernize the RPG-7 with a new sighting system, new shots and the possibility of programming a grenade, etc.