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The S-24 is a rocket weapon designed and used by the Soviet Air Force. It remains in use by the
The S-24 is a rocket weapon designed and used by the Soviet Air Force. It remains in use by the Russian Air Force
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The Soviet Union was an early, enthusiastic user of rocket weapons, employing them as early as the 1930s. The S-24/S-24B is a very large, powerful unguided weapon and one of a handful of successors to the earlier World War II-era BETAB-750DS rockets.
The S-24B differs from the S-24 in that it uses BN-K low smoke motor powder for a low-smoke flight.
The S-24 is long, with a launch weight of . It has a blast-fragmentation
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warhead. Its range is about . The S-24 is carried individually on weapon hardpoints, rather than in pods.
Proximity fuze RV-24 is also available, in which the warhead detonate 3 meters above ground, creating 300—400m radius of fragmentation casualty zone. The body is mesh-texture shape-hardened by electric treatment and creates 4000 fragments that can penetrate up to 30 millimeters of armor, though some sources dispute this and give a figure of 25 millimeters.
The rocket is also license produced in Iran under the name of Shafaq.http://www.modlex.ir/cgi-bin/store.pl/page=product.html/pid=MXF05-000310
See also
* RS-82 (rocket family) * S-5 rocket * S-8 rocket * S-13 rocket *S-25 rocket
The S-25 is a Soviet air-to-ground rocket launched from aircraft. It is launched from the O-25 pod which can hold one rocket. The missile first entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1975.
Variants
The rocket has four variants:
References
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