{"id":47494,"date":"2022-05-25T20:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47494"},"modified":"2025-05-25T00:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:12:04","slug":"the-firing-of-a-spanish-c-90-rocket-launcher-against-a-russian-armored-vehicle-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/25\/the-firing-of-a-spanish-c-90-rocket-launcher-against-a-russian-armored-vehicle-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"The firing of a Spanish C-90 rocket launcher against a Russian armored vehicle in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/07\/los-lanzacohetes-instalaza-c-90-enviados-por-espana-ya-estan-en-manos-ucranianas\/\">Spain sent Instalaza Alcot\u00e1n 100 and C-90 rocket launchers to Ukraine<\/a>, with 1,370 projectiles for both.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/24\/the-destruction-of-a-russian-tank-by-a-kamikaze-drone-of-the-ukrainian-special-forces\/\">The destruction of a Russian tank by a kamikaze drone of the Ukrainian Special Forces<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/21\/the-unusual-reaction-of-russian-soldiers-to-an-attack-by-the-ukrainian-artillery\/\">The unusual reaction of Russian soldiers to an attack by the Ukrainian artillery<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Both the Alcot\u00e1n 100 and the C-90 are weapons manufactured in Spain.<\/strong> These are portable and very light rocket launchers. Until now, hardly any images of these weapons in action had been released in Ukraine, but today a video has been published in which we see what has been identified as <strong>an attack with a C-90 rocket launcher against a Russian armored vehicle<\/strong> (some sources indicate that it was a BMP-2, and others that it was a BMP-1AM) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/11\/russia-loses-at-least-32-armored-vehicles-in-a-single-ukrainian-attack-this-is-how-they-remained\/\">during the disastrous crossing of the Donets River in eastern Ukraine on May 8<\/a>, in which Russia lost 32 armored vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSQEeqUu_X8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video includes texts in Ukrainian that explain what is happening at each moment. As soon as the video starts <strong>we see a first rocket that bounces off the armored turret<\/strong> (both the BMP-1AM and the BMP-2 have very low turrets).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52098823276_675ee5d431_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next, we see<strong> the firing of a new C-90 rocket at the Russian vehicle.<\/strong> In this frame of the video it seems that two projectiles are flying very close together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52098850873_6aa24c21b6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This second rocket fully hits the Russian vehicle<\/strong>, causing an explosion. According to some published information, the vehicle would have already been abandoned by its occupants and the Ukrainians would only be finishing it off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52098823296_d79c745cb4_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The impact of the C-90 causes fragments of the Russian vehicle to fly backwards<\/strong> (these are the white pieces that we see flying to the right of the vehicle in this image).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52097815777_7f3d4ec26c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this other image we see <strong>the fire caused in the back of the Russian vehicle<\/strong>, in the area where the four hatches are so that the troops can peek out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52098843381_32e21474ca_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early March, Spain sent Instalaza Alcot\u00e1n 100 and C-90 rocket launchers to Ukraine, with 1,370 projectiles for both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11548],"tags":[9705,8819,16219,10731,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-47494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-armament","tag-bmp-1","tag-bmp-2","tag-instalaza-c90","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-14 00:12:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}