MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. The Khrizantema anti-tank missile demonstrated to Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 27 has received an extended flight range in its upgrade, the state tech corporation Rostec told TASS on Thursday.
"The Khrizantema anti-tank missile has received an extended flight range in its upgrade. Engineers of the High Precision Systems Holding Company have kept its dimensions unchanged to avoid readjustments of its delivery vehicles," it said.
Rostec constantly carries out work to upgrade and build up the production of various air-launched weapons, the press office said.
"Weapons produced at the corporation’s enterprises today feature high combat characteristics directly in the special military operation area as noted by our pilots and admitted by the enemy, as we can see," the Rostec press office said.
Senior Inspector-Pilot Alexander Karamyshev from the Russian Defense Ministry’s 344th State Center for Combat Employment and Flight Personnel Retraining demonstrated the Khrizantema missile with the enhanced warhead to President Putin in Torzhok (the Tver Region) on March 27. The pilot told the Russian leader that the missile could rip off a tank turret upon hitting it without even detonating its ammunition load.
The 9M123M Khrizantema anti-tank missile is designed to wipe out modern and future enemy armored vehicles with reactive armor, adversary fortifications and engineered structures, naval and low-speed aerial targets and manpower. The missile is part of the armament of the Khrizantema-S self-propelled anti-tank missile system.