Ordnance of the Week - 2K25 Krasnopol
The 2K25 Krasnopol is a rocket-assisted, laser-guided, artillery weapons system designed to attack armored vehicles and defensive positions with a top-attack projectile.
The system features the OF-39 projectile with a warhead with 6.5kg of explosives, along with a guidance package compatible with various laser designators and rangefinders including the Russian 1D22, 1D26, etc.
The 152mm projectile is compatible with various Russian artillery platforms and has a range up to 20km.
When fired, the guidance package is shrouded behind a nose cone with a T90 Mechanical Time fuze (featured in the photographs below with a shipping cover still installed). The T90 functions after a calculated flight time, with the explosive releasing gasses which we believe travel down channels along the interior of the nose cone, shearing five screws around the cone. This allows the nose cone to fall away and reveals the seeker "eye" of the guidance system.
The guidance package with seeker “eye” sitting next to the protective nose cose with T90 MT Fuze.
The energy release from the functioning of the T90 is also used to activate the guidance system via the electrical prongs seen on the underside of the nose cone and along the outside of the seeker "eye."
Underside of the protective nose cone. Note the channels aligned with the holes for shearing screws and the electrical connections.
The projectile features large fins in the rear for stability, mounted around the rocket motors, and smaller fins near the nose. These control surfaces allow the projectile to guide itself onto a designated target.
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