Approved 9M140 'Kometa'

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Model: 9M140 'Kometa'

Size: Large

Legality: Restricted to Russian Armed Forces and select export customers.

Faction: Russian Armed Forces

Manufacturer: TSIINTOCHMASH

Intent: Create an ATGM that will serve as an anti-armor weapon for SSO forces when shit has really hit the fan, and also a weapon that can find it's way onto the black market via 'select export customers', who have no problems with illegally smuggling such weapons into the United States, or whose military personnel have no problem selling them to those who do.

Description:

• Engine: Solid-fuel rocket
• Warhead: Tandem HEAT or Thermobaric
• Armor Penetration: 1500mm RHA (Tandem HEAT)
• Operational Range: 30 kilometers (Kometa-A), 40 kilometers (Kometa-B)
• Speed: 1500 m/s
• Detonation Mechanism: Proximity and Impact (whichever comes first)
• Guidance System:
  • Target Area: Radio-command guidance or inertial
  • Terminal Path: Semi-active laser guidance or infrared guidance
• Launch Platform: Rotary and fixed-wing platforms, unmanned combat aerial vehicles, tripods, ships, and ground vehicles.

The Komet ATGM is a missile developed for use by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on a variety of platforms. While many dismiss the Kometa as a modernization of the Hermes that came before it, the Kometa's only similarity is the similar purpose of both missiles. The missile receives information on the target from it's launch platform, which tracks the target via radar. Once launched, the missile either continues to receive course corrections from the launch platform or in the absence of such switches over to its own interial guidance system. Once it reaches it's terminal phase, the missile uses semi-active laser homing, and in the absence of such will switch to IR guidance and home in on a target with a similar IR signature to that of it's original target in the target area.

The missile is capable of engaging over the horizon targets, and with it's inertial guidance and IR guidance is capable of being fired as a 'fire and forget' missile. It is designed to engage single or multiple targets, the latter being achieved with volley fire. The missiles do not create interference for each other. They come with modular warheads with either a Tandem HEAT warhead for engaging tanks, armored vehicles or hardened structures or a Thermobaric warhead for engaging light vehicles and infantry as well as most structures. Because of it's high speed, the Kometa is capable of engaging low flying aircraft, typically VTOLs running CAS or coming in for a landing. Naturally, radio frequency jammers tuned to the command frequency of the missile's radio command frequency will force it to switch to the somewhat less accurate inertial guidance system.