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R-111 Stugna-P

The Stugna-P, also known as Skif in export modification, is a Ukrainian anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system developed by the Luch Design Bureau. Its guidance device is developed and manufactured by Belarusian design bureau Peleng based in Minsk. The name literally means “Scythian”.

Ukrainian weapons designers have designed and built a comprehensive range of precision guided rounds in the 100mm and 115mm caliber categories, which have the potential to add significantly to mission capabilities of tank guns, both smoothbore and rifled. The new munitions are designed to defeat stationary and moving armored targets protected with state-of-the-art composite and explosive reactive armor, and are suitable for use in both ground-to-ground and ground-to-air roles, engaging with a high degree of efficiency hard targets on the land and low-flying air targets such as helicopters. Some technical solutions embodied in STUGNA were employed by the State Design Bureau Luch for the development of ATGM systems of smaller calibers. Luch has developed the anti-tank precision-guided missile R-111 STUGNA, which is designed to launch from the D10T 100mm gun on the T-55 tank, or the MT-12 antitank gun.

The T-55 tank still remains in service with many armed forces throughout the world, and its mission capability could be further enhanced with the STUGNA missile system. The STUGNA missile uses semi active laser beam riding guidance, and with its tandem shaped-charge warhead it is capable of penetrating 550mm+ RHA behind explosive reactive armor. The missile can engage targets out to 5,000 meters, with flying time to the maximum range not exceeding 14.3 seconds. The STUGNA missile has a 1,196mm-long body, and weighs no more than 24.2 kilos.

The Ukrainian analogue of the American-made FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile system, the Ukrainian anti-tank missile system Stugna-P from Luch DB, also known as Skif in export modification, is designed to defeat tanks and other armored targets, including those equipped with modern active protection system. Like its American "colleague", it is used to destroy tanks and other armored targets, including those equipped with modern means of dynamic protection, and allows you to hit targets at a distance of up to 5 km. In addition, Stugnu-P can be used to combat air targets flying at low speeds at low altitudes.

Stugna-P was officially inducted into Ukrainian Army service in 2011, but it was not until the outbreak of Russian military aggression in Ukraine that the ATGM and its associated launchers and training facilities began to be fielded to Ukrainian forces in 2014. The ATGM systems Stugna-P and Korsar/Corsair were ceremonially handed over to the Armed Forces in August 2018.

Stugna-P is a Ukrainian-made anti-tank missile system from the state-owned company Luch. Its characteristics allow it to successfully oppose armored vehicles, including tanks. According to Ukrainian sources, Stugna-P can successfully port even the most modern armored vehicles equipped with active anti-tank protection.

The Stugna-P can launch 130mm and 152mm missiles, the most common of which are the RK-2S, RK-2OF, RK-2M-K, and RK-2M-OF guided missiles. They can be equipped with different types of warheads: tandem cumulative, high-explosive fragmentation, or thermobaric. With a firing range of 100 m to 5 km, the complex is guided by a laser beam and its shaped charge can burn through armor 800 mm thick. Portable complex have a RK-2S rocket, RK-2OF caliber 130 mm or RK-2M-K, RK-2?-OF caliber 152 mm. The guided missile can be equipped with various types of combat parts: tandem cumulative, fragmentation-high-explosive or thermobaric. The complex is equipped with a semi-automatic laser beam guidance system. It is also possible to remotely control the missile by a television guidance from a safe position.

The basic version consists of a launcher installed on a tripod, a missile container, a guidance device and a remote control that allows the operator to start at a distance. “It is also important that the missiles for the Stugna are about four times cheaper than the American Javelins, are made in Ukraine and do not have a single component from Russia,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, noted.

This weapon is a standard-issue Ukrainian anti-tank missile. Under the rule of president Yanukovych, ousted in 2014, manufacturing of these types of weapons heavily stagnated, and those in storage were kept in terrifying conditions, resulting in 1 out of 10 being functional. Much of the qualified work-force had moved on, the supply chain devastated. Ukraine had the capability to produce these weapons, but no money to invest into its military-industrial complex.

The Armed Forces have over the past few years received hundreds of brand new Stugna-P and Korsar ATGM launchers and thousands of their associated missiles. After having proved its effectiveness in real-world combat engagements in Eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian ATGM system saw a substantial surge in demand on the international market. Export-oriented version of the ATGM Stugna-P has been successfully marketed across the globe.

DKKB Luch, a state-owned defense contractor affiliated with the Ukroboronprom defense industries group, intended to unveil an improved and upgraded configuration of its Stugna anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system, named Stugna-P, in 2021. "We will release Stugna very soon. I hope that a whole new configuration of the Stugna will be ready next year," Oleh Korostelev, Chief of Design and CEO at DKKB Luch told Defense Express in an exclusive interview. “Almost all of the key components and subsystems will undergo improvements and upgrades. Stugna-P has a whole different look with reduced size, improved ergonomy of use, enhanced quality of images and weapon guidance quality etc," he said.