Levant Front TOW strike on regime T-90 in Southern Aleppo with Drone footage of the aftermath.

UPD: For all the internet warriors downvoting me, here's some motherfucking sources:

Exhibit №1, english description of "Linkey" jammer system, which is further development of "Shtora" by Ukranian (currently on occupied Crimea territory) "Feodosia State-Owned Optic Plant":

It is an information-control system intended for: the object’s crew informing about the object laser irradiation by enemy’s guidance means using quantum rangefinder devices and illumination; determination of emitter type (rangefinder of illuminator); determination of direction to the emitter relative to the main armament barrel channel or the object longitudinal axis; control of aerosol (smoke) grenades launching to the direction of laser radiation detected for masking screen formation and guidance prevention.

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Conclusion №1: Manufacturer of the system does not include "automatic turret rotation" in the product description.

Exhibit №2, system description from "Special constructor bureau 'Zenith'", Russian manufacturer of "Shtora" system:

TShU-1-7 is used for individual protection of armored vehicles from anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) of the type "Fagot", (AT-4 Spigot) "Konkurs" (AT-5 Spandrel) "TOW", "Milan", "Dragon", "Cobra", "AT-3" and others using semi-automatic targeting system of IR-spectrum. Basis of operation is in emission of IR-spectrum noise to confuse ATGM CLU, which in term severely degrades missile hit probability

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source with google translate

Conclusion №2: Russians believe and advertise that "Shtora-1" can degrade performance of BGM-71 'TOW', even though it is not laser-beam riding missile.

Exhibit №3, excerpt from 100-page book by Sergei Suvorov "T-90: Russia's first mass production tank":

Electro-optical jamming system provides defence of a tank from ATGMs with semiactive guidance like *"TOW"*, "HOT", "Milan", "Dragon". With simultaneous existence of guide strobe light and jammer in the CLU's FOV, the jammer overpowers strobe light's emissions causing disruption in CLU work and subsequent miss

Jammer system provides visual directional indication and acoustic signalization about laser illumination of a tank; automatic smoke grenade launch in the direction of illumination, which masks the tank from illumination; manual smoke grenade launch in case of system fault.

google translate source [full PDF book source in russian, 1,7MB](ihavebook.org/books/download/pdf/4096/t-90-pervyy-seriynyy-rossiyskiy-tank.pdf)

Conclusion №3: 1) Ability to defeat TOW mentioned once again, meaning russians do think it works 2) automatic turret rotation not mentioned, once again. So if anyone wants to provide some sources and rebuke my statements - be my guest.

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