Imperializt Russia wrote:Kornet is pretty firmly a "big boy" missile. US Mech Inf. carry Javelins in their IFVs (so I've heard on here) so you could always just roll with a 5-inch diameter type ATGM.Hrstrovokia wrote:Silly question time. Actually two silly questions.
I was looking at the RPG/ATGM weapons fielded by my military. I was trying to have a up-to-date force, which is able to procure the latest weaponry, and in the case of ATGM's fielded by dedicated Anti-tank units of the Mech. Inf, I was particularly looking at the Kornet ATGM, which is SACLOS guidance system. Are there any cases where older generation guidance systems would actually out perform SACLOS? I read this on wikipedia but have yet to go into more research about it:
2nd question. Since the Kornet is around 28kg or so, is it better to equip my Mech. Infantry with a range of lighter (although less lethal) options (either RPG-26 as LAW, RPG-7V2 as weapons squad anti-armour specialist, RshG-2 for Assault Pioneers, RPG-29 as a backup weapon carried by BMPs) and rely then on heavier weapon from dedicated anti-tank vehicles included in Mech. Inf battalions (9P162 Anti-Tank Missile Carriers) than have two men carry around the Kornet?
What I think you're reading regarding SACLOS v MCLOS is that with MCLOS, since the missile is wholly controlled by the operator, they can remotely set up the launcher, and set up their command point elsewhere, providing they can still connect. Though I'm not sure if this is ever really done, or from how far you can really do it anyway.
MCLOS missiles, and their operators, are very complex and difficult to train.
Whereas, since SACLOS is computer-corrected based on the relative position of the missile to the launcher, you can only really have the control system physically attached to the launcher. So I read it.
Nope SACLOS can have remote aiming/guidance posts. IIRC you just need an autopilot on the missile that flies onto roughly the same bearing as the guidance post so that the controller can "gather" the missile.
It was certainly a feature of all the British SACLOS Atgms most notably swingfire.