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The {{PAGENAME}} is very lightly armoured and will barely survive any attack stronger than 7.62 mm MG to the hull. It, however, has some RHA plates on front, which are also angled closer towards 80°, making it capable of deflecting heavy machine gun fire and at times autocannon fire, or even non-apfsds shells. Due to armour thickness, almost any big shell at its rank will hull break it on direct hit to the hull.
 
The {{PAGENAME}} is very lightly armoured and will barely survive any attack stronger than 7.62 mm MG to the hull. It, however, has some RHA plates on front, which are also angled closer towards 80°, making it capable of deflecting heavy machine gun fire and at times autocannon fire, or even non-apfsds shells. Due to armour thickness, almost any big shell at its rank will hull break it on direct hit to the hull.
  
Due to this, it requires hulldown or hills just to be able to fight, and it should avoid direct fights and artillery fire at all costs. To retreat from battle or to exploit it's weapon system it can also use ISS, creating smoke wall behind and around itself.  
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Due to this, it requires hulldown or hills just to be able to fight, and it should avoid direct fights and artillery fire at all costs. To retreat from battle or to exploit it's weapon system it can also use ESS, creating smoke wall behind and around itself.  
  
 
The weakness of armour is further prolonged by fact, that even in hulldown its launcher and radar are still exposed and can be hit with HE, HESH or HEAT, and, unlike with the most of other hulldown ATGM tanks, HEAT can be landed on top of it in such a way, that it will destroy {{PAGENAME}} via hullbreak, allowing other ATGM tanks to defeat it, if their reaction and aim is better.
 
The weakness of armour is further prolonged by fact, that even in hulldown its launcher and radar are still exposed and can be hit with HE, HESH or HEAT, and, unlike with the most of other hulldown ATGM tanks, HEAT can be landed on top of it in such a way, that it will destroy {{PAGENAME}} via hullbreak, allowing other ATGM tanks to defeat it, if their reaction and aim is better.

Revision as of 14:26, 29 September 2020

RANK 6 BRITAIN
Rooikat 105 PACK
Khrizantema-S
ussr_9p157.png
Khrizantema-S
Research:260 000 Specs-Card-Exp.png
Purchase:710 000 Specs-Card-Lion.png
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Description

GarageImage Khrizantema-S.jpg


The 9P157-2 Khrizantema-S is a rank VII Soviet tank destroyer with a battle rating of 9.7 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update "Starfighters".

General info

Survivability and armour

The Khrizantema-S is very lightly armoured and will barely survive any attack stronger than 7.62 mm MG to the hull. It, however, has some RHA plates on front, which are also angled closer towards 80°, making it capable of deflecting heavy machine gun fire and at times autocannon fire, or even non-apfsds shells. Due to armour thickness, almost any big shell at its rank will hull break it on direct hit to the hull.

Due to this, it requires hulldown or hills just to be able to fight, and it should avoid direct fights and artillery fire at all costs. To retreat from battle or to exploit it's weapon system it can also use ESS, creating smoke wall behind and around itself.

The weakness of armour is further prolonged by fact, that even in hulldown its launcher and radar are still exposed and can be hit with HE, HESH or HEAT, and, unlike with the most of other hulldown ATGM tanks, HEAT can be landed on top of it in such a way, that it will destroy Khrizantema-S via hullbreak, allowing other ATGM tanks to defeat it, if their reaction and aim is better.

When Khrizantema-S is travelling faster than 5 km/h, both its launcher and radar are hidden away, which reduces probability of being hit on move, at a cost of time spent to get launchers out and being unable to quickly fire them out when it matters, which may result in a loss against light tanks.

Armour Front (Slope angle) Sides Rear Roof
Hull ___ mm ___ mm Top
___ mm Bottom
___ mm ___ - ___ mm
Turret ___ - ___ mm Turret front
___ mm Gun mantlet
___ - ___ mm ___ - ___ mm ___ - ___ mm
Cupola ___ mm ___ mm ___ mm ___ mm

Notes:

Mobility

Khrizantema-S acceleration and mobility is somewhat closer to track-using light tanks due to it's low weight, but it has rather limited maximum speed, when compared to top rank VI or VII vehicles. In RB, it's offroad forward speed is generally around 45 km/h. It's reverse speed is also limited, but will allow it to back out of a fight with about 15 km/h on demand.

Khrizantema-S climbing ability is mediocre, but it should be able to climb any hills when spaded.

Khrizantema-S can swim with greatly reduced movement speed.

Game Mode Max Speed (km/h) Weight (tons) Engine power (horsepower) Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
Forward Reverse Stock Upgraded Stock Upgraded
Arcade 77 23 18 _,___ 954 __.__ 53
Realistic 71 21 _,___ 500 __.__ 27.78

Armaments

Main armament

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Main article: 9M123
Msg-important.png Missiles can be slaved to radar, therefore first missile launched while radar is locked on will fly straight for it and ignore user's input. It will do so even if Khrizantema-S hull is furiously shaking while swimming and manual shot seems impossible to make.
9M123 missile Turret rotation speed (°/s) Reloading rate (seconds)
Mode Capacity Vertical Horizontal Stabilizer Stock Upgraded Full Expert Aced Stock Full Expert Aced
Arcade 16 -5°/+15° ±85° N/A __.__ __.__ __.__ __.__ __.__ _.__ _.__ _.__ _.__
Realistic 14.9 __.__ __.__ __.__ __.__

Ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
10 m 100 m 500 m 1,000 m 1,500 m 2,000 m
9M123 ATGM (tandem) 1,200 1,200 1,200 1,200 1,200 1,200
9M123F ATGM-HE 61 61 61 61 61 61
Shell details
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Velocity
(m/s)
Projectile
Mass (kg)
Fuse delay
(m)
Fuse sensitivity
(mm)
Explosive Mass
(TNT equivalent) (g)
Ricochet
0% 50% 100%
9M123 ATGM (tandem) 550 46.0 0.2 0.01 6,160 80° 82° 90°
9M123F ATGM-HE ___ _.__ __ _._ ___ __° __° __°

Ammo racks

Full
ammo
1st
rack empty
2nd
rack empty
3rd
rack empty
4th
rack empty
5th
rack empty
6th
rack empty
Visual
discrepancy
8 __ (+__) __ (+__) __ (+__) __ (+__) __ (+__) __ (+__) __

Optics and night vision

Khrizantema-S Optics
Type of optic Magnification Night Vision Devices
Image Intensifier Thermal Imager
Resolution
Notes
Resolution Light Mult Noise Level
Gunner's Sight  ? N/A N/A N/A 800X600? Only useable with tier 4 upgrade
Commander's View X6 N/A N/A N/A 800X600? Only useable with tier 4 upgrade
Driver's View X1 / 3PV 800X600?  ? High Not fitted Only useable with tier 4 upgrade

Radars

Msg-important.png Khrizantema-S radar can search and lock onto ground targets, and it can also lock onto targets behind smoke and trees, even if user cannot see them. Keep both of these facts in mind, when using it

The Khrizantema-S is equipped with a single search and tracking radar, mounted to the side of missile launchers. The radar system is incapable of scanning while tracking, and can only lock on targets within a 40° arc from the front of itself, however, once locked, it can turn in 85 degrees arc, continuing tracking its target as long as it didn't go behind Khrizantema-S.

 ??? - Target Detection Radar
Maximum
Detection
Range
Minimum
Detection
Range
Max Azimuth
Scan Angle
Max Elevation
Scan Angle
Minimum
relative speed
 ? m  ? m -+20°?  ???  ? m/s (? km/h)
 ??? - Target Tracking Radar
Maximum
Tracking
Range
Minimum
Tracking
Range
Azimuth Tracking
Angle
Elevation Tracking
Angle
Minimum
target speed
 ? m  ? m ±85°  ?°/?°  ? m/s (? km/h)


Usage in battles

Describe the tactics of playing in the vehicle, the features of using vehicles in the team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view but instead give the reader food for thought. Describe the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).

Modules

Tier Mobility Protection Firepower
I Tracks Parts Horizontal Drive
II Suspension Brake System FPE Laser rangefinder
III Filters Crew Replenishment Elevation Mechanism 9M123F
IV Transmission Engine ESS NVD

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Has hardest hitting ATGM ingame at the moment, with an astounding 1200 mm of penetration and also has HE version of it as an option
  • Can slave missile to the radar, which can also lock onto tanks. It also can lock through smokes, trees, etc., which is unique at rank VI and even rank VII at the moment
  • Technically can fire and guide both missiles at once, one via radar, one via laser, an effect which is extremely hard to replicate with any other tank short of BMP-2M
  • Has thermal optics for commander and both gunner and commander optics are tier 2 (better than early rank VI tech)
  • Great mobility and acceleration of chassis, when comparing it to tanks with similar weapon loadout, though it is not very fast overall, when compared to tanks of higher BR
  • Frontal armor, despite being lightly armored, is heavily sloped, meaning it will deflect some small arms fire (including, rarely, autocannons), it can even rarely bounce some tank shells of rank VI, which can give necessary second to fire back

Cons

  • The armor can be easily penetrated on all sides by any gun it meet (short of some SPAA autocannons), even heavy machine guns can penetrate some areas of the side
  • On top of laughable armour, its launcher is easier to hit than one of Shturm-S and it also has radar, which is also easy to hit, thus it should avoid dueling with other tanks directly, particularly ATGM tanks, as even Stormer HVM may have decent chances of instantly hull-breaking Khrizantema-S by unloading half of its missile rack into direction of the Khrizantema-S's radar
  • 9M123 ATGM has decent speed and will outclass any early rank VI missiles, but it is inferior to ADATS and SAM, so in direct duel it may lose to them just because penetration numbers are nearly irrelevant in light tank combat
  • Launcher was reported to be hard to aim manually

History

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Media

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See also

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  • reference to the series of the vehicles;
  • links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.

External links


USSR tank destroyers
SU-76M  SU-76M · SU-76M (5th Gv.Kav.Corps) · SU-85A
SU-57B  SU-57B · SU-76D
T-34 Derivatives  SU-122 · SU-85 · SU-85M · SU-100 · SU-122P
Heavy Tank Derivatives  SU-100Y · ISU-122 · ISU-122S · SU-152 · ISU-152 · Object 268
SU-100P and Derivatives  SU-100P · Object 120
Wheeled  YaG-10 (29-K)
Airborne  ASU-57 · ASU-85
Rocket  BM-8-24 · BM-13N · BM-31-12
ATGM  IT-1 · Shturm-S · Khrizantema-S
Artillery  2S1 · 2S3M
Other  SU-5-1 · ZiS-30 · SU-122-54 · Object 775
USA  SU-57