The 9M133M Kornet-M (also known by the export designation 9M133 Kornet-EM)

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

anti-tank guided missile An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles. ATGMs range in size from shoulder ...

(ATGM) is an improved version of the

9M133 Kornet The 9M133 Kornet (russian: Корнет; "Cornet", NATO reporting name AT-14 Spriggan, export designation Kornet-E) is a Military of Russia, Russian man-portable anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) intended for use against main ...

ATGM, with increased range and an improved warhead. Kornet-EM missiles are chiefly used on the

Kornet-D Kornet-D is a Russian anti-tank guided missile system platform based on the GAZ-2975. It employs 9M133M Kornet-M missiles in both tandem-HEAT or thermobaric warhead variants. It is capable of launching a salvo of two missiles less than a sec ...

system. Kornet-M missiles are also compatible with standard Kornet man-portable tripod launchers.

Design

Introduced in 2012, its vehicle mounted version is equipped with an automatic target tracker. Instead of manually placing the crosshairs on target throughout the missiles flight, the operator designates a target once and the computer tracks the target as the missile travels towards it. The beam riding system also allows a vehicle equipped with twin launchers to attack two different targets at once, increasing its rate of fire, decreases the number of vehicles needed for a mission, and can defeat vehicles equipped with an

active protection system An active protection system is a system designed to actively prevent certain anti-tank weapons from destroying a vehicle. Countermeasures that either conceal the vehicle from, or disrupt the guidance of an incoming guided missile threat are design ...

through salvo fire at one target. The system's use of an autotracker can make it more effective against low-flying aerial threats like helicopters and

unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...

s (UAVs).Russian Ministry of Defense to finalize the tests of Kornet-EM anti-tank guided missile
- Armyrecognition.com, 8 October 2016 Like the Kornet, the Kornet-M is designed to defeat vehicles with

explosive reactive armor Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour that reacts in some way to the impact of a weapon to reduce the damage done to the vehicle being protected. It is most effective in protecting against shaped charges and specially hardened kinetic ene ...

via a

tandem-warhead A tandem-charge or dual-charge weapon is an explosive device or projectile that has two or more stages of detonation, assisting it to penetrate either reactive armour on an armoured vehicle or strong structures. Anti-tank Tandem charges are ef ...

. There are also Kornet-M variants equipped with

thermobaric A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, a vacuum bomb or a fuel air explosive (FAE), is a type of explosive that uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion. The fuel–air explosive is one of the be ...

warheads. Russia has developed a new X-UAV guided aircraft missile.

Users

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References

{{Reflist Anti-tank guided missiles of Russia Anti-tank weapons Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia KBP Instrument Design Bureau products Military equipment introduced in the 2010s