STRIX Intelligent mortar system.

Projectile guidance technology has already been used since 1994 in 120 mm mortars, with the IR homing Bofors/Saab Strix. This weapon can engage targets at a range of 7 km, operates in an autonomous heat-seeking mode which can intelligibly recognize targets and discriminate targets among decoys and burning targets. Strix has been in service with the Swedish Army since 1994 and also has been ordered by the Swiss Army. It is optimized as an anti-armor weapon, defeating targets with top-attack.

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[snyghest]

Bring it on Russia!

[dmurphy64]

That could hurt!

[AdurianJ]

I'm pretty sure the original version of Strix can only lock onto stationary targets and within a 200m wide area :)

It also tends to go for the hottest part like the engine block of a tank instead of the turret.

[freddan75]

@TomteFront Det får du försöka lista ut....

[TomteFront]

Ohh now I get: D

[TomteFront]

yeah, the guys are swedish to. So why say ''Bring it on Russia'' ?

[unknowna2]

Its swedish made.

[astrialkil]

@bri4u2906 was that the microwave guided mortar round?

[PsykopatKosta]

@Dejjal

Yes they are both "shaped charges" designed to penetrate armor, but HEAT rounds does not use gases to punch through armor though.

HEAT: A shaped charge with a cone shaped metal liner, forms a jet in a close stand-off=deep armor penetration.

EFP: A shaped charge with a concave shaped metal liner, that forms a projectile at a grater stand-off=less armor penetration

I may have oversimplified, but that was just to make it clear that it's just as scarry both ways.

/Sgt FC E.B Swedish EOD

[Dejjal]

@PsykopatKosta

Yes and No

An EFP uses a shaped charge to form a projectile from a metal plate (copper was used by the Jaish Al Mahdi in Iraq).... while a HEAT round uses the gases that are formed inside the projectile to punch through armor

[PsykopatKosta]

@pushitgently001p

Explosively formed projectile (EFP) and High Explosive Anti Tank are the same thing, a shaped charge designed to penetrate armor. This is what the STRIX round uses.

[leksss4]

but if that veichle is not armor at all?

that thats go past and hit deep on ground xD