ANTITANK MISSILE COMPLEX AND METHOD FOR ITS ARMING Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment, in particular, portable antitank complexes. SUBSTANCE: the antitank missile complex has a launcher, sight-guidance unit, missile container, shock-absorber, cradle with the front and rear guides on the right and left sides, fixing devices. The sight-guidance unit has front and rear brackets, on which guides are made on the right and left sides. The front and rear brackets have shoulders with a horizontal plane on the right and left sides, which is made for mergence with the guides, whose inlet is made profiled, for example, with a grade equal to two. According to the method for arming of the antitank missile complex, the following operations should be carried out: the launching position and the sector of the launching direction on the terrain is selected, the launcher is installed on the ground, the sight-guidance unit is installed on the launcher, and before installation of the missile container on the launcher the shock-absorber is successively installed between the brackets of the sight-guidance unit with the guides on the right and left sides. A cradle with the front and rear guides is installed on the horizontal plane of the bracket shoulders, the cradle guides are matched with the inlet to the bracket guides, the cradle is moved in the bracket guides, at the same time they are cleaned, the cradle is secured with the shock-absorber. The missile container is installed on the cradle and fixed on it by the fixing device. EFFECT: enhanced combat readiness to launching due to the reduced transient time between the stowed and combat positions. 4 cl, 5 dwg