Khrizantema-S

Khrizantema-S

Object 775

Khrizantema-S

Object 775

USSR

VII Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
9.7	9.7	9.7

Class:

Tank destroyer

ATGM vehicle

Research:260 000

Purchase:710 000

Description

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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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

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

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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 weak armour, Khrizantema-S's launcher is easier to hit than one of Shturm-S and it also has radar, which is even easier to hit with explosives, further compromising its hull-down potential. Due to this, Khrizantema-S 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 general 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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External links

• [Devblog] Khrizantema-S: why not both?