LOSAT (anti-tank missle)

[marmaladekamikaze]

The computerized infrared tracking system is blinded by the launch blast. It may have taken just a second to reacquire the target and abruptly turn the supersonic missile. In addition, rain, smoke, fog and the rockets own propellant may disrupt the rear mounted laser guidance. As a result, there will be no chance of hitting anything within 1000 meters. It is too expensive to fire at non-tank targets, and the lack of an explosive charge limits its value anyway.

An excerpt from g2mil LOSAT

[LPNeptune]

will the launcher fit in the bed of a '97 Toyota Tacoma??? Lmao!!

[Defender78]

id hate to be the guy having to hold the camera behind the target tank

[Hassanov777]

Name of the song plz???????????????????????

[lorenzol1996]

What song?

[Breakerchase]

The LOSAT will seem to be like what the first and second gen ATGM was like in the 1970s. It'll look all powerful and seems like the ultimate AT weapon, but give it a few years and armor technology will catch up to reduce its effectiveness.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase Nothing can reduce the effectiveness of the LOSAT. It hits with four to five times the energy of a 120mm saboted long-rod penetrator. In other words, it is four to five times more powerful than the L44 gun; a weapon which can easily penetrate most recent main battle tanks, with the possible exception of some prototypes that aren't even in full production. APS wouldn't stop it; it uses a solid penetrator and KE impact force rather than explosives. Armor? Too heavy.

[Breakerchase]

@Spartan043

LOSAT may be an unstoppable weapon today and on the testing grounds, but soon enough there WILL be something to counter it if it ever is fielded by US forces. Don't think it's a future-proof anti-tank weapon just because nobody has revealed the next generation of tank armor to the public.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase It is, for all intents and purposes, future-proof. Even two meters of rolled homogeneous armor equivalent cannot stop it. The turret and top armor of next-generation main battle tanks is going to be about half that much. The kinetic energy alone has direct equivalency to 21 pounds of TNT, all vectored in a straight line through the target. The LOSAT is overkill. No tank manufactured within this century could stop it. Period.

[Breakerchase]

@Spartan043

Mmmm, yeah. I remember a shitload of new weapons introduced and claimed as "future proof". Don't be so naïve.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase Naïve, you say? Very well. I'd happily invite you to engineer a tank with armor capable of stopping 34 kilos of tungsten moving at 1,500 meters per second, though it'd probably end up being a fortress with tracks. Face it, there is no vehicle armor - past, present, or future - that can stop that sort of kinetic energy impact. The only way to stop the LOSAT is to actively jam the targeting system before launch. A direct hit is simply not survivable.

[Breakerchase]

@Spartan043

A lot of people had the same view as you do right now back when the first ATGMs were used en masse. "No type of practical armor imaginable can stand up to the shaped charge of the anti-tank missile" they said.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase That statement technically still holds true. A TOW, Hellfire or Kornet E can easily wreck even the toughest tanks out there. There isn't any practical armor out there that can stop those weapons. Not even reactive armor works against multiple hits. Plus, the LOSAT is at least twice as effective as any ATGM in existence. The reason why they canceled it was simply due to its impracticality. Why bother with something like this when insurgents don't use tanks?

[Breakerchase]

@Spartan043

Yes, but with the slowdown of military R&D with the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, why bother making better armor for your tanks when the armored hordes of the red bear planning on invading the West have just disappeared?

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase The main reason why they haven't just packed on over two meters of RHAe on every MBT is simply because it weighs too much. The Abrams with the TUSK package already has too much ground pressure for a tank of its type, and even that wouldn't prevent a total kill from a LOSAT impact. To put things in perspective, a 120mm APFSDS round is capable of penetrating pretty much any tank out there if it hits in the right spot. The LOSAT is 4 to 5 times more powerful.

[Breakerchase]

@Spartan043

The TUSK package isn't even designed for armored warfare anyways.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase Exactly. It's designed to prevent the tank from being overwhelmed by shoulder-fired weapons and crude explosive devices, not shells or ATGMs. Yet it still weighs a bunch.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase If a hit from an APFSDS round can blow the turret right off a Challenger tank, then what would a kinetic impactor that travels at the same speed and weighs over five times as much do? Of course, this is completely moot. The reason why the army canceled the LOSAT is simple; there aren't any targets to use it on.

[Breakerchase]

@Spartan043

While this has gone a bit too far off-topic, that's basically what I said previously. There's no more "Future Soviet Tank" to justify shifting some money for LOSAT and then American military doctrine is focused on light forces and the USAF.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase Hmm. There's a page out there with the specs on the Chiorny Oriol (which was supposedly a T-80 tank with a bunch of dress-up added onto it in order to test some aspects of the new design without building a full prototype). The estimated thicknesses for the turret armor in the design for this next-gen tank was up to 1.16m of RHAe against KE for the front of the turret, and 0.24m for the top of the turret against KE and EFP threats. The LOSAT could go through armor twice that thick.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase I can see why most countries have invested more money in next-generation fighter jets than in next-generation tanks. Tracked vehicles are a dead-end as far as their passive defensive capabilities go. True next-generation tanks will be capable of actively-jamming pretty much any targeting system imaginable, and use active thermal or even optical stealth to avoid detection. Without novel tech like Electric Reactive Armor, you simply can't make them any tougher than they are now.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase Even a T-90 or Black Eagle would be totally inoperable after a LOSAT strike. But the LOSAT does have drawbacks. It's large, heavy, and produces significant blast overpressure upon launch, making most armored cars ill-suited to carry it. I've heard conflicting reports that its successor, the CKEM, may have 10 or 20MJ of energy, which is plenty enough for most threats either way. The CKEM is only a hundred pounds, meaning you could probably launch it from a tripod.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase Unfortunately, they canceled the LOSAT program and replaced it with the CKEM, a weapon which is much smaller and lighter, but half as powerful, at 20MJ versus 40MJ. Still, 20 megajoules of KE is more than twice a 120mm's 7-10 megajoules. The LOSAT was total overkill anyway, as demonstrated by the video above.

[MrAmericanAce]

wow, they would literally have about half a second to realize that a humvee must have launched some 'weak' munition. then they got vaporized.

[GRAT28]

Nice wepon

[TuAFFalcon]

My lunch was in that tank!

[supornoplayboy]

Nice

[Mitrolaja]

The music makes this video so bad.

[blah979]

Blimey that was sweet.

[Shakin2012]

best tanks are german made

[JoeCrazyEyes]

@Shakin2012 Thse are the wost actually

[metalguitarist1000]

owned! 0:09

[billay360]

No military weapon would be complete without a cheesy 90's guitar solo.

[BANGBANG2288]

i like the end part wen you can see the missle coming towards the tank thats cool=]

[rreidnauer]

I have a new appreciation of just how fast things would go bad if I were on the receiving end.

[Adolfinthemix]

Increible la explosion, muy bueno... es exactamente lo que yo usaria para que la pelotuda, que tenemos de presidenta los argentinos, y su marido, se callen de una vez por todas!

[Carles86]

also, i like music

[evawyrwal7]

amazing, i like the music too

[russelljenkins69]

That was cool. I don't think it needed the baywatch style music though, unless david hasslehoff was in the tank.

[amsc123]

well INDIAN tanks are d best!

won many battles!

[cyberteque]

Aren't Indian tanks Russian tanks?

[amsc123]

hey bro!

i knw dey r d same!

thnxx 2 RUSSIA!

[hampton82]

Anybody knows the title of the song?

[russelljenkins69]

I am gay so very very gay - by david hasslehoff

[gus23a]

hey, don´t hassel the hoff!

[ukrainesuperpower87]

American cheating

Tank was minned inside just like in "Javelin" video

[SH0TTYMAD]

hahaha...I agreed, That exactly what I suspected also, howcome they can make such a huge explosion for promotion but in the real time situation the tank stay intact.

[thomasbhunter007]

Disagree - however I would like to have seen the inside of the tank afterwards - a pretty explosion doesn't always mean that serious damage was done.

[carmakizi13]

that missile is going about a mile a second!

at that speed it doesnt need a warhead much less a mine!

[ukrainesuperpower87]

"that missile is going about a mile a second!"

So what? Missile has not enough explosions to blow tank into pieces.

Tank was minned inside with massive bombs just for show.

[ccr5cxcr4]

Yeah cause tanks usually don't have a bunch of high explosives in them. Perhaps this is some secret of the ukranian tanks. No shells, no explosives, no propellants...

[place910]

this music is amazing,

ive just found my new ringtone guys .

hey guys, hows it hanging

and to be honest i am not sure

hey, that piano playing kicks butt

[oldmanzangetshu]

dat hot!

[A1rsoftSniper]

LOL at the fuggin music. 80's shit lol

[mungbean34]

When the dust cleared the tank was only lightly paint scratched in one spot. Then it shot the jeep in half. Literally.

[onewheat]

Do you think so? I've seen tanks hit by LOSAT missles. I would invite you to sit inside one being fired upon, seeing as how it would only be 'lightly scratched' anyway and then you can return fire to my Hummer afterwards (if you are able).

[carmakizi13]

wow did you work on those things?

my old mad put 6 years into designing the heat reistant coating and the guidance thrusters but he bailed after the cold war

[TheAirsoftDemon]

@onewheat true that man

[OrthodoxSerbia]

HAhhahhaha nice !

[Helge129]

@mungbean34: When the dust cleared, the tank magically disappeared :P

[SecuR0M]

@mungbean34 the tank had a tiny hole in the top

and the entire crew was turned into extra chunky salsa

[Vlaudeimirz]

This missile do not contain any explosive. It destroys the target by kinetic force, just by hitting it at tremendous amount of speed with heavy tungsten as the penetrator. However this is cancelled part due to Javeline and other advance missile in developement.

[Paganist666]

Ah wtf lol?

[Naillfax]

WOO HOO!Nice rocket,we also have some like this.

[skinnadoor]

tight

[Wast3m]

are LOSATs the ones that they deploy on m2/m3 bradley?

[Helge129]

no, the Bradley uses TOW missiles, the M6 Linebacker version uses stinger missiles.

[Davidovich]

how old are u homeboy? 13?

[RUSSIAisPRIMITIV]

try to draw attention away from yourself? You still wrong

[Israelipatriot92]

HAHA NICE....

[Davidovich]

that's false the missile wasnt in match 4(5000fts/s) isnt true!!

[fusionstar916]

This is the fastest ground to ground missile ever made. at over 5000 FPS

[Wast3m]

dosent look that fast..

[contra009]

I can't imagine how fast things must be where you live.

[Wast3m]

prolly 3 times faster than normal. ^ ^ we all drive @ 300mph lol

[Pyroney]

that means normal people drive 100mph, normally!?

[Wast3m]

er nono, we drive @ a minimum of 300mph, and we throw a ball @ 100mph.

[Zynkthe1st]

thas amazing, thats all i need to know to put a cement wall 60 ft high around my...room... i liked that music though! XD

[GodlessMartyr666]

its made to punch through armor , so cement wont cut it unless you layer it about 4 feet wide

[AvoinTarina]

The LOSAT is probably my favorite missile. It's NOT a HEAT round. The LOSAT doesn't contain any explosives what-so-ever! It's 'armed' with a tungsten penetrator. Nothing but pure kinetic energy. Heay metal hitting it's target at 5000 ft/s.

[GodlessMartyr666]

I would be skeptical as to whether it would be very much of a deterrant toward soviet armor, due to the fact that if your IN soviet armor, Your probably on a suicide mission of some sort. Nobody in their right mind would ride anywhere near a base protected by those fuckers though. LOSAT is pretty scary but look up the experimental hellfire rapidfire weapons platforms being tested to defend our bases in the near future. 1,000,000 rounds per minute! More or less a bloody flack weapon really

[Ghakimx]

Yeah, I know. I heard and watched a few of those super rapid fire guns. Some people keep call them shotguns for some reason, but a shotgun fires out rubber pelts, not bullets.

If a human was fired at with that kind of rapid fire gun, he'd look beyond belief after that.

[kooldog98]

anyone know the name of this song?

[thenotoriousjon]

wow thats sooooooooo fast traveled like amile in very little time

[Dudtz]

Thats no LOSAT!

It is most likely a High Explosive Anti-Tank{HEAT} warhead.

You wouldn't even be able to easily see the LOSAT itself traveling,and it would not explode on impact like that.

[SJB666]

I got to get a Hummer, the accessories are awesome.

[SJB666]

nice shot

[heresatissue]

wow

[misopogon10]

omfg!!!

[killerc0p]

Boom!

[elgranto7]

bye bye tank

[MrIzo56]

Damn faggisg music ruins the video momentum

[Dash02]

what is the songname of this?

[Bundesheer25]

yeahhhhhhhh

[notguilty07]

i need a few of those on my car to take out the bad drivers in my way!

[asacestt]

gay music its like relaxing music while a huge fucking missle is about to blow ur head off!

[BrunoDerBergelf]

holy shit^^

[BriefShorts]

lol, love the 80's music

[theodoroscristou]

i can go boar hunting with that!

[bobotea1234]

PWNED

[heretofear]

waste of tanks?

[Julmuri]

cool missile, music made me laugh.

[Maxables]

Wow, I like the view from the tank. Imagine being a tank commander and seeing that...there's nothing you could do

[Tjoen11]

lol

[solecistice]

haha, it's like 80's sitcom theme music. nice :)

[sigmageneral]

what type of explosives are used in his warhead ??

[IlSeFousDeTaGuele]

None. Strict kinetic kill. This program led to the development of the CKEM.

[ChuckManiac]

CKEM or Compact Kinetic Energy Missile uses tungsten rod penetrators, more effective against modern armor, ERA and APS than a the high explosive anti tank round.

[ChuckManiac]

This is developed by Lockheed Martin and instead of high explosives it's uses a tungsten rod (a highly dense metal) to penetrate armor. At 5,000 feet per second, this missile is amongst the fastest. LOSAT program is cancelled in 2004, but the knowledge gained in this research will be used for another program, CKEM (compact kinetic energy missile).

[Jefferson1228]

What is the soundtrack to this video? I think it's pretty cool :D

[TaintedMojo]

It works by putting the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again.

[scosutherlandj]

shit music though

[MorganKeyes]

It's a kinetic-kill weapon. No warhead, just a tungsten rod moving at hypersonic speed. Also effective due to the speed cutting time for the target to react and counter. That said, development has halted in favor of a smaller form, C-KEM.

[yootoobfuckyou]

Ignore the bone head post below.

[cewei0858]

anybody can tell me what the music in this vid,thx!

[revolrz22]

In this video it appears so effective because it's targeting a 20 year-old gutted rust-bucket on a targeting range.

Videos like this hardly ever tell you the whole story.

[forcedsignupFuckTube]

oh-k lol cheapos

[revolrz22]

Not to be entirely negative; it's probably an effective weapon system for what it's designed to do. But, of course, assessing the effectiveness of a weapon system based on videos like these is folly.

[williamv1]

sick

[U1629016]

really fast!!!

[EnigmaV8]

What's with the cheezy "Saved by the Bell" theme music?!

[himherit]

its a losat. technically its not even a missle.. maybe a big ass bullet ... but yeh

[lyoko0314]

thats a TOW missile not LOSAT

[elgatoso]

are you sure?

[Lancer505]

No, it's NOT a TOW missile.

[Helge129]

"thats a TOW missile not LOSAT"

No, it's a LOSAT (Line-Of-Sight Anti-tank) missile, because a TWO explodes above the target, shoting a shaped charge down ward through the top of the tank.

[racevws]

crazy how fast that thing closes on the tank. Tax money well spent

[prausch65]

Hope al qiada rags were in that tank!

[irfank58]

very fast.

[icewaldi]

Yeah das ist russische technoligey

[belrias]

Nein. Americanisch.

[areas4]

NYET.

[dragget]

No warhead on this bad boy: it's moving so fast, it doesn't NEED a warhead.

[kraksk8]

thatll kill the them fuckers!