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Anti-tank missile
Cobra (missile) is a anti-tank missile originating in Switzerland West Germany.
Anti-tank missile
Switzerland West Germany
1957 - 1968 (Cobra)
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Six-Day War Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Syrian Civil War
Contraves, Oerlikon and Bölkow
1954
~170,000
Cobra 2000, Mamba
10 kg (Cobra) 10.3 kg (Cobra 2000) 11.2 kg (Mamba)
950 mm (Cobra) 952 mm (Cobra 2000) 995 mm (Mamba)
100 mm (Cobra, Cobra 2000) 120 mm (Mamba)
200 m to 1,600 m (Cobra) 400 m to 2,000 m (Cobra 2000) 300 m to 2,000 m (Mamba)
2.7 kg warhead (Cobra) HEAT (475 mm versus RHA) or HEAT-fragmentation (350 mm versus RHA) - (Cobra 2000) 2.5 kg HEAT or HEAT-fragmentation (Mamba)
300 km/h (Cobra 2000) 500 km/h
MCLOS system
The Cobra was a Swiss/ West German anti-tank missile designed by the Oerlikon-Contraves and Bölkow GmbH companies.
The missile is normally deployed with a single operator controlling and control box linked to up to eight missiles, which can be deployed up to twenty meters away from the operator. On launch the booster fires, projecting the missile up into the air at an angle of 20 degrees. The operator then steers the missile towards the target along his line of sight using a joystick on the control box.
Production of the original missile ended in 1968, with a new version, the Cobra 2000 entering service. The Cobra 2000 extended the range of the missile to 2,000 meters and could be fitted with either an anti-tank warhead or a dual purpose anti-tank/fragmentation warhead.
The Mamba was introduced in 1972 and improved the guidance system, and added a dual thrust motor with an initial low power launch mode, followed by a higher powered sustainer which allows the missile to be gathered more easily during the initial seconds of flight. Initial launch speed is just 35 meters per second, after the sustainer is engaged this increases to 140 meters per second. The missile travels faster, reducing the time of flight to its maximum range in just 17.5 seconds. Also the operator is provided with a x7 power telescope.
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm 2 references imported from Wikimedia project German Wikipedia Wikimedia import URL https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MBB_COBRA&oldid=196332149 stated in Jane's Weapon Systems 1973-74 page(s) 17-18
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