Chinese whispers: anti-armour weapon development quietly achieves self-sufficiency
In common with sensible practice elsewhere, Chinese industry has developed multiple means of delivering essentially the same missiles, offering man-portable, vehicle-mounted, and turreted variants of missiles such as the Red Arrow family. The first examples of the NORINCO Red Arrow 73 (HJ-73) ATGW were virtually identical to the Russian Kolomna KBM 9K11 Malyutka (Baby) (NATO: AT-3 'Sagger')
[first posted on 08 October 2012]