Norinco announced on its official WeChat account on 25 March that it had begun its first export deliveries of the man-portable HJ-12E ATGM to Nigeria.
The HJ-12E is an export version of the regular Red Arrow 12 (HJ-12) missile system. This is a third-generation ATGM that weighs 22kg.
The HJ-12 anti-tank guided missile is China’s first man portable, fire and forget, top down attack antitank missile, the electro-optical and infrared sight can be seen below the missile tube.
According to the Sina.com.cn Algeria is the first export customer of the HJ-12 (Red Arrow 12) guided anti-tank missile produced by the Chinese firm Norinco. This missile is a much cheaper clone of the American FGM-148 Javelin missile launcher, the particularity of which is that it is Fire and Forget…
The Chinese military began to receive the latest third-generation anti-tank missile system. Such weapons came, in particular, to the units of one of the combined-arms brigades of the 78th Army Group (Army) of the PLA Northern Combat Command. Photos from the test site where this advanced weapon is being developed…
The HJ-12 is made by NORINCO, China's largest producer of tanks, other armored vehicles, artillery and infantry weapons. The missile may have its roots in the AFT-11, a Chinese ATGM project dating from around 2012. Chinese media suggests that the HJ-12 is already in the midst of being fielded in…
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