Soviet P-73 missiles on Magura drones: why are Russian pilots nervous through them (video)

The Armed Forces engineers integrated the old Soviet R-73 Air-Air missile to use Magura's sea drones, and this was an unpleasant surprise for the occupiers who posted the appropriate video with the attack of the Ukrainian drone and trying to get it from the Russian helicopter. Now the pilots of Helicopters of the Russian Federation will have to think about their own safety once again when they protect their objects from attacks by Ukrainian Kamikadze drones.

The editor of the military focus, the Israeli military observer Igal Levin, told this in an interview. He noted that the P-73 rocket has a thermal guidance system. Although it is old, with old electronics, it is quite effective. "It should be borne in mind that the rocket was launched from aircraft earlier and it could beat 20-40 km, but processing on a ground platform requires a rocket to overcome gravity, so its range is reduced to 10-12 kilometers," Levin emphasizes.

" , the rocket does not become safer because helicopters do not fly far or high, cannot actively maneuver, so they are quite threatened by Russian helicopters and their pilots. " According to the military observer, similar missiles in the West appeared in the 60's, but they were very low. The pilots tried to use less, because rockets often fell, not flying when launched. "For example, Israeli pilots called such rockets" cans ", because they just fell down like a can," Levin says.

"It was easier for pilots to make the enemy go to the near battle and destroy it thanks to guns or machine guns. " Igal Levin believes that the very fact of the presence of such missiles on the sea drones will make Russian pilots nervous, especially helicopter pilots. Now they will be much more dangerous to patrol the sea in search of Ukrainian sea drones, because they are not so maneuvering. They will have to take into account the danger that the P-73 carries.