Libyan radicals launch air-to-surface missiles X-29T from a ground installation

According to the of the Center for Strategy and Technology Analysis Blog with reference to Oryx BlogDuring the fighting in the Libyan capital Tripoli, radical Islamists launched Soviet X-29T air-to-surface missiles with control surfaces and rudders removed from an improvised ground-based installation based on a commercial truck.

These missiles, equipped with a television guidance system, were supplied to the Libyan Air Force at the end of the 1980s to arm the Su-24MK bomber. X-29T came to the Islamists during the seizure of the Libyan air force base Gardabiya near the city of Sirt, where the 1124-I squadron of the Libyan Air Force had been deployed.

It is also noted that the radicals captured another Soviet-controlled aviation weapons, including X-29L and X-25 air-to-surface missiles and KAB-1500 adjustable bombs.

Comments

[GRAY]

Barbarians to whine, from high-explosive bombs make.

[bulvas]

Quote: Daniel

adjustable bombs KAB-1500

Will they also be launched from the earth?

- make a catapult

[alex-s]

It’s good that there were no nuclear weapons in Libya!

[GDP]

If there were nuclear weapons, they probably would have thrown it from the catapult ...
In general, use x-29 as an uncontrollable disc - it's tin! It’s the same as hammering nails with a microscope or carrying hay on a racing ferari.
Correctly said - Barbarians!
If there were brains, they would push this high-precision weapon to the same Assad and acquire normal weapons for the money raised - understandable and accessible to savages and in much more quantity ...

[Turkestan]

If the Guided Missiles have passed all the terms of inspections and regulations and if they were ugly stored, then use them as NURSs their only purpose or disposal. We must pay tribute that the Militants, being in those combat conditions, still found a way to use these munitions and their value as highly accurate weapons and their PRICE in this case do not matter

[jetfors_84]

Quote: Scoun

Quote: Daniel

adjustable bombs KAB-1500

Will they also be launched from the earth?

Big slingshot og ...
Comrad wrote the same

Quote: GRAY

Barbarians to whine, from high-explosive bombs make.

A landmine can be laid somewhere and undermined, and the KAB-1500 is, let’s say, it’s not at all frail.

Follow Rogozin's advice. Coach launch astronaut.

[armageddon]

Hmm ... Yes, the trampoline is not enough ... !!!

[zeleznijdorojnik]

Barbarians are not barbarians, but how beautiful our weapons are, damn it.

[Scoun]

Quote: Daniel

adjustable bombs KAB-1500

Will they also be launched from the earth?

Big slingshot og ...
Comrad wrote the same

Quote: GRAY

Barbarians to whine, from high-explosive bombs make.

A landmine can be laid somewhere and undermined, and the KAB-1500 is, let’s say, it’s not at all frail.

[Turkestan]

These are not barbarians. This suggests that they have people whose TYMA works.

[Yellow white]

GOAL FOR FABRICATION OF THE Sly!
Thanks to American democracy ... I hope that at least one psi.n.d.s. "stray" will see the strength and power of Russian weapons ...

[Giant thought]

And where they launch these missiles, there is no information about this. The article is not fully developed.

[Ayujak]

This is similar to Smeshariki. When the Hedgehog and Krosh launched their rockets and then everyone got it. Curiosity has not been canceled, a colleague.

[Nayhas]

Quote: Thought Giant

And where they launch these missiles, there is no information about this. The article is not fully developed.

And what is incomprehensible ... Into the white light ... Like Kassam ... i.e. like an unmanaged PC ...

[RusDV]

Mdya ..... homelessness .......

[Belopolyak]

It is a pity there was no tactical nuclear weapons, they would have fired on those who bombed them recently.

[andrei332809]

consequences of democratization

[a.hamster55]

They write that a rocket with a television guidance system. So they have a truck on TV?

[kostyan77708]

Quote: Black and White

GOAL FOR FABRICATION OF THE Sly!
Thanks to American democracy ... I hope that at least one psi.n.d.s. "stray" will see the strength and power of Russian weapons ...

preferably in their own territory

[wladimir]

it’s not clear where they are launching, this is probably another duck

[donavi49]

They launch towards the Zindan brigade near Tripoli - it's like a loyalist. Misurat guys are shooting, who have revolted in sauce - we made a revolution and flew past the authorities, and in Tripoli Zradniki dug in.

Meanwhile, the Caliphate captured Benghazi and the surrounding area.

[Wolka]

I would like to hear something about the effectiveness of this "off-label" use of Air Force ammunition ...

[el.krokodil]

Quote: GRAY

Barbarians to whine, from high-explosive bombs make.

Neanderthals .. using an expensive rocket as a nurs ..

[propolsky]

The need for invention is strong! True, this is all a psychological weapon, just to get there is a matter of chance.

[Mishanya 84]

I look forward to the next development. What will happen after the slingshot and wagons:
A) A combat robot assembled from gaming machines
B) Submarine from railway tanks
C) Own option

[Dart_Veyder]

And now it’s slowly reaching the West that the dictatorship in the East wasn’t so bloody, and in comparison with the new Islamic clubs, even human rights were all right.

[korablik]

It’s good that there were no nuclear weapons in Libya

Good that in Ukraine there was no nuclear weapon

[victorrat]

Dabbled in democracy s. while capturing the former Soviet. But when will their rockets be used, who will they blame?

[a.hamster55]

A piece of rusty pipe of suitable diameter, a piece of vole and telephone TA-57 or another with an inductor and the installation for launching a NURS is ready. Fighters were so entertained 30 years ago.

[donavi49]

Libya will also have to bomb Libya by winter-spring, like Iraq. Only in contrast to Iraq is the situation there even worse.

Benghazi and the surrounding area are controlled by Ansar al-Sharia, a kind of ISIS, a little less cruel. So far, without the pillars of shame of aki in Raqqa and the mass executions of dissenting prisoners. But they are not fighting for Libya, but for Alkinan (the caliphate of Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea). Now they are slowly advancing, obviously waiting for Haftar, Misurats and Zindans to kill each other.

In fact, the dictator, the only loyalist who has real power on the bayonets of the remnants of the armies and the militia is General Haftar. But he is torn between Benghazi and Misurato Tripoli. And the durability, reliability of his army is low. Near Benghazi, only As-Saika stood to death, the rest fled.

Libyan government - calls on everyone to peace and sits on suitcases, there is no real power.

The Misuratans are the most combat-ready rebel squads, who are offended that they moved the trough away from them. Now they are storming Tripoli, an air base and several bases of the battalion level have already been captured in the suburbs.

Zindan Brigade - Loyalists who want to keep the trough at home and are at war with the Misurats.

Here is such Makhnovism there, and in the depths of the country from the Bedouins to just the Bandits who privatized whoever the tower and who and the bulk terminal (a recent story with oil smuggling by tankers when US Marines caught a tanker filled with cache).

[hellriker]

! It’s like a microscope nailed up.

[donavi49]

Well, here you have free microscopes and there is an urgent need to hammer in nails, a hammer and other suitable objects except a microscope!

These Misurat missiles were taken away at the base, there are no flying planes there, only different missiles and 30mm shells. That’s what they put into business as they can.

And yes, this missile, if it is normal to aim (in degrees, start up uncontrollably) at a short range, in terms of building it will be especially effective than any improvised flying cans. There 116 kg of effective explosives and warhead itself is more than 300kg.

[VNP1958PVN]

Not shit, there would never be anything like that. Libya would live peacefully and further without the "inventors".

[vass]

One thing can be said - the African land is rich in talents. In the absence of the Queen, it is possible and the janitor ... Not in vain we taught them. On the other hand, what should they do in the desert, after being fully connected to European democracy and the welfare received from a native of Africa?

[grigorii]

Nevertheless, Soviet-era weapons are very reliable at all times.

[MAXUZZZ]

guided missile like a finger into the sky, although the militia could have adopted some experience

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[basmach]

I doubt that the Kh-29T (although in the first photo it looks like the Kh-29T, on the lower one in the package with LGSN), being in Syria on a business trip on the S-22M4 (an export version of the Su-17M4), I found it lacking IT- 23 and the corresponding blocks of the tele-guidance system and I doubt that they were supplied with TGSN to Libya (export was always slightly "cut off"), without which launching from a telescopic head is impossible. As far as I remember, our use with the TGSN was limited in peacetime and in the 1st BC we had an X-29L. So, as one character said, I am tormented by vague doubts. Now I don’t remember exactly (more than 20 years have passed since college , and hit by a PNKashnik, not a gunsmith)), the engine start contacts are brought out separately, and everything else is through the connector, in addition, the rocket is launched from the AKU (first, with the help of pushers, the engine is pushed off the AKU, then the engine is triggered with a delay). starting and wiring the connector so that it does not fly like a blank, and they did not have such specialists even during the USSR (and I was convinced myself and my head of the group was in Libya in the 80s, he told me)