Taifun
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Taifun 9M15 was a Soviet missile developed to arm the Obiekt 287 missile tank
based on the T-64
tank chassis. The tank was armed with two 73 mm 2A28 low pressure guns mounted either side of a popup missile launcher. Both the guns and the missile launcher were automatically loaded, the guns each being fed from two eight round drums, giving a total of 32 guns rounds and 15 missiles stored in the tank. The missile launch platform was vertically stabilised, allowing the vehicle to move at low speed and fire. The guns were remotely controlled by the gunner and commander from the front of the hull.
The Taifun missile had a body diameter of 140 mm. It was fitted with a dual purpose warhead with a HEAT
shaped charge capable of penetrating 500 mm of armour, and a fragmentation effect roughly equivalent to a 100 mm HE-FRAG shell. The missile was MCLOS
radio command guided from the tank. The missile had an engagement envelope of between 500 and 4000 m.
Tests were conducted in April 1964, during which the tank performed poorly, and as a result the tank and missile were not accepted for service.
Missile tank
A missile tank is an armoured fighting vehicle fulfilling the role of a main battle tank, but using only guided missiles for main armament. Several nations have experimented with prototypes, notably the Soviet Union during the tenure of Nikita Khrushchev , but only the West German Jaguar 2 saw...
based on the T-64
T-64
The T-64 is a Soviet main battle tank, introduced in the early 1960s. It was used solely by the Soviet Army in its front-line divisions and was a more advanced counterpart to the T-62...
tank chassis. The tank was armed with two 73 mm 2A28 low pressure guns mounted either side of a popup missile launcher. Both the guns and the missile launcher were automatically loaded, the guns each being fed from two eight round drums, giving a total of 32 guns rounds and 15 missiles stored in the tank. The missile launch platform was vertically stabilised, allowing the vehicle to move at low speed and fire. The guns were remotely controlled by the gunner and commander from the front of the hull.
The Taifun missile had a body diameter of 140 mm. It was fitted with a dual purpose warhead with a HEAT
Heat
In physics and thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one body, region, or thermodynamic system to another due to thermal contact or thermal radiation when the systems are at different temperatures. It is often described as one of the fundamental processes of energy transfer between...
shaped charge capable of penetrating 500 mm of armour, and a fragmentation effect roughly equivalent to a 100 mm HE-FRAG shell. The missile was MCLOS
MCLOS
MCLOS is a first-generation method for guiding guided missiles.With an MCLOS missile, the operator must track the missile and the target simultaneously and guide the missile to the target. Typically the missile is steered with a joystick, and its path is observed through a periscope-type...
radio command guided from the tank. The missile had an engagement envelope of between 500 and 4000 m.
Tests were conducted in April 1964, during which the tank performed poorly, and as a result the tank and missile were not accepted for service.
Specifications (Obiekt 287)
- Weight: 36.5 tons
- Length: 6.12 m
- Width: 3.42 m
- Height: 1.75 m
- Ground clearance 450 mm
- Armor:
- Front hull: 100 - 200 mm
- Front turret: 330 mm
- Armament:
- 140 mm launcher with 15 x 9M15 Taifun missiles
- 2 x 73 mm Smoothbore guns 32 rounds total.
- 3000 x 7.62 mm
- Engine: 700 hp diesel
- Road range: 500 km
- ground pressureGround pressureGround pressure is the pressure exerted on the ground by the tires or tracks of a motorized vehicle, and is one measure of its potential mobility, especially over soft ground. Ground pressure is measured in pascals which corresponds to the EES unit of pounds per square inch...
0.8 kg/cm - Obstacles :
- Wall: 0.80 m
- Trench: 2.70 m
- Fording: 1.7 m
See also
- IT-1IT-1The IT-1 was a Soviet cold war missile tank based around the hull of the T-62. The tank fired specially designed 3M7 Drakon missiles from a pop-up launcher. It saw a very limited service between 1968 and 1970. The large deadzone around the tank created by the missiles' minimum range combined with...
, a Russian missile tank that saw limited service and was developed at around the same time.