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AVIBRAS ASTROS II rockets
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Iraq
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Боєприпаси, ракети та високоточне озброєння
The AVIBRAS ASTROS II rockets is all four ASTROS II rockets are understood to have extruded double-base propellant rocket motors. The smallest of the ASTROS II rockets is the 127 mm SS-30 fired from a 32-tube launcher. Each wraparound folding fin-stabilised rocket is 3.9 m long and weighs 68 kg. Maximum range is 30,000 m and minimum 9,000 m. A high-explosive warhead is fitted. The 180 mm SS-40 is fired from 16-tube launchers. Stabilised in flight by four wraparound tailfins, the SS-40 is 4.2 m long and weighs 152
kg. Maximum range is 35,000 m and minimum 15,000 m. Although a high-explosive warhead can be fitted to the SS-40, the normal warhead contains 20 dual-purpose bomblets. Each anti-personnel/anti-armour bomblet is 390 mm high and 130 mm in diameter, with a ribbon streamer to stabilise the bomblet during the descent phase and also arm the mechanical impact fuze. The third of the ASTROS II rockets is the 300 mm SS-60 launched from four-tube launchers. The wraparound folding tailfin stabilisation method as used with the smaller ASTROS II rockets is retained, with the overall length being 5.6 m. Weight of the SS-60 is 595 kg, 212 kg of which is the cluster warhead containing 65 of the same dual-purpose bomblets used with the SS-40. Maximum range is 60,000 m and minimum 20,000 m. In 1995 the 300 mm SS-80 was announced. Outwardly resembling the SS-60 and having the same weight, the SS-80 has a maximum range of 90,000 m and a minimum range of 22,000 m, implying that the SS-80 has a totally different rocket motor to the earlier model. Rocket weight is 595 kg. No details have yet been released regarding the SS-80 warhead although it is assumed that is the same as that for the SS-60. In 1991, three extra types of warhead content were introduced for the 180 mm SS-40 and 300 mm SS-60. One is an HEI filled with White Phosphorus (WP).