AT-15 Khrisantema

Max range of fire, m 6,000
Crew, persons 2
Missile speed supersonic
Ammunition load, msls 15
Types of missile warheads Tandem/HEAT, HE
Missile loading automatic
Guidance automatic radar, semi-automatic laser
Clutter and jamming resistance high
Armour-piercing capability defeats all modern and perspective tanks with ERA.

Immunity to adverse weather and low/nil optical and thermal visibility conditions: radar acquisition of ground, surface and aerial targets;


Increased range and rate of fire: up to 15 targets can be engaged within a few minutes at a range of up to 6000 m;


Unique dual-mode/automatic guidance: simultaneous two targets firings with fully automatic radar guidance/semi-automatic laser beam riding;


Passive and Active Jamming Robustness (both to man-made and natural interference);


High Mobility and Survivability: the BMP-3 chassis provides armour protection as well as cross-country, amphibious and self-entrenching capabilities.
The KHRIZANTEMA-S (Chrysanthemum) is a code-name of the new generation self-propelled multi-purpose guided missile system designed by KBM Engineering Design Bureau, Russia. This is a unique versatile weapon system
intended to engage with high rate of fire various targets such as modern/prospective main battle tanks equipped with ERA and armoured combat vehicles, fortified structures, pill-boxes, small vessels, as well as slow/low-flying aircraft and helicopters, at a range of up to 6000 meters at any time of day or night, under any weather conditions, and in any combat environment.

The system comprises a combat vehicle with guidance equipment and ready-to-fire guided missiles armed with various types of warheads, stationary and mobile test equipment, training aids. Its crew consists of two men: commander/gunner and driver, both seated in front of the vehicle under full armour protection.

The system is armed with supersonic guided missiles that can carry either tandem shaped-charge or high explosive warheads. Ammunition section contains 15 ready-to-fire missiles in sealed expendable containers. The two-round launcher is served by an autoloading system. Once the two missiles have been launched, the launcher arm is retracted into the hull and loaded automatically with required missile warheads. The system's unique feature is its two modes of guidance. In the primary mode both the priority target is tracked and the missile guided automatically by a millimetre-waveband radar by day and night under any battlefield conditions (dense smokes, dust, fires, fog, rain, snow, etc.), without the gunner having to obtain visual contact with the target. In the second mode which is semi-automatic laser beam riding, the sight must be kept on the target until the missile strikes home. The fire control system allows two targets to be engaged simultaneously, using different modes of guidance. The system demonstrates robust performance against passive and active countermeasures. Dust, dense smoke and numerous fires at the battlefield do not affect the guidance system either.


The KHRIZANTEMA Missile System is mounted on the proven BMP-3 IFV chassis. The vehicle retains the full amphibious capability of the standard BMP-3. Its standard equipment includes a NBC system and a front-mounted dozer blade.
Radar detection of targets and their engagement with the supersonic missiles fired at a high rate at long range allow to eliminate threats at an early stage enhancing overall survivability of the KHRIZANTEMA System.

The system can also be mounted on any other platform.





Nikolai Gushchin
Head and Chief Designer of the KBM Engineering
Design Bureau, D. Sc. (Technology)

S elf-propelled antitank guided missile systems are the most effective means to inflict damage upon armor materiel.
An analysis of the development trends of this class weapon and the estimate of information on regional military conflicts make it possible to determine the following main requirements for antitank missile systems of the early 21st century:
- all-weather and round-the-clock capability of combat use, including dust and smoke screen environment;
- potential of firing at several targets and implementation of the fire and forget principle;
- high armor penetration of the missile HEAT warhead;
- long range and high accuracy of fire, high firing rate and survivability on the battlefield.
Nowadays, there is no antitank missile weapon with characteristics that meet the aforementioned specifications in the aggregate, although separate requirements are realized in such antitank systems as Javelin, Hellfire, TOW-2A, HOT-2, Shturm-S, Kornet-E and some others.
The implementation of these governing requirements in the aggregate is clearly a complex scientific and technical problem demanding the efforts of many firms and highly qualified specialists as well as a protracted period of design and development.
It is necessary to depart from traditional approaches used to design modern antitank weapon systems and employ principally new scientific and engineering approaches to develop ATGM systems. This problem was successfully resolved in Russia. The Khrizantema (Chrysanthemum) system fully meets the requirements imposed on advanced antitank weapons.
The system was developed by the KBM Engineering Design Bureau together with co-executers basing on the solution of the most complicated problem: use of the radar system as part of the entire ATGM system. The problem complexity consisted in ensuring the stable and highly precise tracking of ground targets and missile guidance at ranges of 5,000 to 6,000 m in the immediate vicinity of the ground surface. This problem was successfully solved by mastering the millimetre wave band.
An automatic radar target detection and tracking system with simultaneous missile control, during its guidance to the target, was developed for the Khrizantema antitank missile system for the first time in the world. This radar system ensures launches at any time of night or day, during fog, rain, snow and in dust and smoke screen environment.
The process of tracking a target, selected by the operator, and missile guidance is effected automatically, without participation of the operator, which virtually means the implementation of the fire and forget principle.

Khrizantema atgm System Characteristics

The Khrizantema system is additionally fitted with the second, semiautomatic laser beam guidance system which enables one to effectively engage all types of targets in optical visibility conditions.
The availability of the two guidance systems allows fire delivery in three modes:
- automatic radar guidance;
- semiautomatic laser beam guidance;
- combined guidance.
When operating in the combined mode, two missiles are fired consecutively; the first missile is guided automatically and the second semiautomatically.
The missiles can be guided in the two channels simultaneously.
So, the Khrizantema system uses the multichannel ability, which materially enhances its combat effectiveness.
The guided missile is fitted with a HEAT or HE warhead.
The HEAT warhead can effectively engage modern and advanced tanks provided with explosive reactive armor. The HE warhead is used to engage other types of targets.
The missile has a supersonic mean velocity.
The combat vehicle of the Khrizantema ATGM system is based on the BMP-3 chassis whose technical and operational characteristics are renowned on the international arms market.
The supersonic flight speed of the missile and potential of simultaneous two-channel fire ensure a high rate of fire. In combination with the long firing range and employment of the armored chassis, it guarantees high survivability of the Khrizantema system on the battlefield.
In terms of combat characteristics, the Khrizantema system has no equivalents in the world and is a weapon system of the future.




The estimates of the system combat effectiveness, carried out in different operating conditions, including the cost-effectiveness criterion, demonstrate its obvious superiority over the existing antitank weapons.
The system includes the 9P157-2 combat vehicle, 9M123-2 HEAT missile, 9M123F-2 HE missile, as well as combat vehicle and missile test equipment.
The Khrizantema antitank guided missile system has absorbed the best scientific, technical and design achievements in antitank guided weapons and is a new generation weapon system in the aggregate of realized technical characteristics and high combat effectiveness.