designated 9K116 Kastet. A laser guidance device was seated on a tripod next to the gun. The system was commissioned in 1981. During development of the 9K116 system...

reached its physical limits. In 1981 the tube-fired missile weapon system 9K116 Kastet entered service. The shot fires a laser guided missile often designated...

laser beam-riding guided missile 9M117 Kastet (weapon system 9K116) and carried the new designator 2A29K "Kastet" or MT-12K. By the mid-1990s, modern western...