Engineering:UR-77
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| UR-77 | |
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| Place of origin | Soviet Union |
| Service history | |
| Used by | Russia Syria |
| Wars | Second Chechen War Syrian Civil War[1] |
| Production history | |
| Designed | 1977[2] |
| Specifications | |
| Mass | 1,550 kg (3,420 lb) |
| Crew | 2[2] |
| Effective firing range | 90 m (300 ft)[2][1] |
Main armament | Mine-clearing line charge |
The UR-77 (Russian: УР-77 Метеорит, lit. 'Meteorite') is a Soviet mine clearing vehicle, based on a variant of the 2S1 Gvozdika chassis.[1]
Description
The vehicle is armed with a launcher and two Mine-clearing line charges. When launched, a charge causes a shock wave that destroys or disables all the shells or mines along the area of the line charge. (with a width of 6 metres and length up to 90 metres).[2]
The vehicle has also been used offensively, where its line charge has been used to destroy entire streets in urban combat.[1]
Current operators
Azerbaijan
Russia
Syria
Ukraine
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Beckhusen, Robert (12 October 2014). "Spotted — Al Assad’s Brutal Mine-Clearing Tank in Syria". https://medium.com/war-is-boring/assads-new-brutal-mine-clearing-tank-spotted-on-the-front-line-893967d17710. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nekrasov, Mikhail (29 March 2017). "UR-77: Clearing one landmine at a time". https://www.rbth.com/multimedia/video/2017/03/29/ur-77-clearing-one-landmine-at-a-time_729866. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
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