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The RAS-16 is a shoulder-fired, unguided, tube-style, breech-loading anti-tank rocket system with an effective range of 800 meters designed to take on and destroy modern and future tanks equipped with explosive reactive armour. The RAS-16 is designed with economic viability in mind, keeping production cost as low as possible while maintaining a high degree of effectivenes on target. When launched, the rocket deploys eight fins as it leaves the launcher, stabilizing the rocket during flight. | The RAS-16 is a shoulder-fired, unguided, tube-style, breech-loading anti-tank rocket system with an effective range of 800 meters designed to take on and destroy modern and future tanks equipped with explosive reactive armour. The RAS-16 is designed with economic viability in mind, keeping production cost as low as possible while maintaining a high degree of effectivenes on target. When launched, the rocket deploys eight fins as it leaves the launcher, stabilizing the rocket during flight. | ||
The RAS-16 aims through an optical sight with 2.7x magnification. A laser rangefinder is also built into the optical sight of the RAS-16, with which it can accurately find ranges out to approximately two kilometers, 600 meters beyond the maximum firing range of the RAS-16. Both the thermobaric and tandem HEAT warheads of the RAS-16 are deliberately designed to have the same flight path, simplifying the aiming process by eliminating the need for seperate range tables in the optical sight's reticle. | The RAS-16 aims through an optical sight with 2.7x magnification wtih night-vision capability. A laser rangefinder is also built into the optical sight of the RAS-16, with which it can accurately find ranges out to approximately two kilometers, 600 meters beyond the maximum firing range of the RAS-16. Both the thermobaric and tandem HEAT warheads of the RAS-16 are deliberately designed to have the same flight path, simplifying the aiming process by eliminating the need for seperate range tables in the optical sight's reticle. | ||
The reticle of the RAS-16's optic is graduated in hundreds of meters from 100 to 800 meters to account for gravitational influence on the warheads, and the sight places a red dot at the correct range in the reticle once the laser rangefinder has been used to designate a target. The RAS-16 furthermore has a programmable fuze setter to allow warheads to explode in mid air at a set distance. For added safety and cost savings, an automatic round counter enables soldiers and logisticians to accurately track the service life of each weapon. | |||
==Ammunition== | ==Ammunition== | ||
[[File:RAS 16 ammo.png|thumb|Inert cutaway RAS-16s at the [[Catalina Wine Mixer]] showing their warheads, top RAS-16 armed with thermobaric, bottom RAS-16 armed with tandem HEAT]] | [[File:RAS 16 ammo.png|thumb|Inert cutaway RAS-16s at the [[Catalina Wine Mixer]] showing their warheads, top RAS-16 armed with thermobaric, bottom RAS-16 armed with tandem HEAT]] | ||