{"id":193462,"date":"2008-12-14T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/14\/russia-unveils-fcs-killer-rpg\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T11:20:00","slug":"russia-unveils-fcs-killer-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/14\/russia-unveils-fcs-killer-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Unveils FCS Killer RPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/5009\/rpg30229148532pv1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>The folks at Danger Room quote the Russian descriptions as an &#8220;Abrams Killer&#8221;, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/11\/russia-unveils.html\">RPG-30 is really designed to defeat active protective systems and reactive armor<\/a>, neither of which are currently used on the M-1, which they note.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/589\/rpg3029159030ke0.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>It&#8217;s pretty simple in concept.  The RPG-30 launches two projectiles, the main 105mm projectile, and a smaller decoy, which it launches a few milliseconds ahead of it.<\/p>\n<p>It would serve as a decoy against active protection systems, which intercept incoming rounds, and with even a tiny warhead, and it looks to be about 30mm in diameter, so there is space for this, it could serve to pre-detonate reactive armor, allowing for better function of the main charge.<\/p>\n<p>Neat technology, and another nail in the FCS manned ground vehicle concept of substituting technology for armor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Danger Room quote the Russian descriptions as an &#8220;Abrams Killer&#8221;, but the RPG-30 is really designed to defeat active protective systems and reactive armor, neither of which are currently used on the M-1, which they note. It&#8217;s pretty simple in concept. The RPG-30 launches two projectiles, the main 105mm projectile, and a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1266,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-combat-systems","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}