The S-25 is a Soviet air-to-ground

rocket A rocket (from it, rocchetto, , bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely fr ...

launched from aircraft. It is launched from the O-25 pod which can hold one rocket. The missile first entered service with the

Soviet Air Force The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

in 1975.

Variants

The rocket has four variants:Venik's Aviatio - "Air-Launched weapons used by Russian aviation in Chechnya"
*S-25-OF with high explosive-fragmentation warhead *S-25-O with fragmentation warhead and radio proximity fuze *S-25-OFM for use against hardened targets *S-25L (LD)

laser-guided Laser guidance directs a robotics system to a target position by means of a laser beam. The laser guidance of a robot is accomplished by projecting a laser light, image processing and communication to improve the accuracy of guidance. The key ide ...

variant

References

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