The Armed Forces of Ukraine use Soviet Rapira anti-tank guns, which in the summer of 2014 could not prove themselves on the “positive side” in the Donbass, writes on the Telegram channel Gazeta.ru columnist Mikhail Khodarenok, a retired colonel. “Colonel Khodarenok”.
The MT-12 Rapira 100mm anti-tank gun is a Soviet towed flat-bore anti-tank gun created in the late 1960s. Rapira is an upgrade of the T-12 100 mm anti-tank gun.
“An attempt to improve the accuracy of anti-tank guns led the Soviet military-industrial complex to receive Ruta sights, which increased the accuracy and quality of fire of artillerymen. “Rapier” was attached to the guns. Now, after a series of fiascos with foreign artillery, the Armed Forces of Ukraine has released Rapiers with Ruta sights, which eight years ago were unusable. Now they are used, waiting for tanks and firing directly. There is only one problem: the firing range of the Rapier with such a sight is 1 km, and the T-72B3 sees the calculation in the trench in the thermal camera from about 3.5 km, ”writes Khodarenok.
He noted that such weapons at the front are “the clearest sign of the imminent defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.” According to Khodarenko, “the lack of even such a trivial thing as normal anti-tank missile systems says a lot about the fatigue of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the inability of the army to fight normally in modern realities.”
Former editor-in-chief of the Motherland magazine Arsenal, military expert Viktor Murakhovsky saidHow Russian anti-tank missile systems should evolve.