MSPO 2022: Hanwha showcases TAipers ATGM land platform integration kit

Hanwha unveiled a land platform integration kit for the TAipers ATGM, which it co-developed with South Korea's Agency for Defense Development at MSPO 2022. (Janes/Christopher Petrov)

Hanwha unveiled a land platform integration kit for the TAipers anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), that it co-developed with South Korea's Agency for Defense Development at the International Defence Industry Exhibition MSPO 2022 held in Kielce from 6 to 9 September. The missile, formerly called the Chungum, was originally developed as a helicopter-launched ATGM. It has since been further developed so it can be launched from land vehicles.

The missile can be launched from a closed pod with two TAipers that can be mounted on a variety of land vehicles, ranging from commercially available pickup trucks to heavy armoured vehicles. The missiles can be stored inside the rectangular pod during transport and can be elevated for launch when a target has been spotted. Hanwha gives TAipers' range as 8 km, with the missile travelling at 200 m/s and able to penetrate up to 1,000 mm of rolled homogeneous steel.

With TAipers, Hanwha is joining a growing market of air-to-ground munitions being repurposed and sold as multirole missiles that can be either air- or ground-launched with minimal or no modifications. Poland is developing a land platform to fire Brimstone 1 missiles that fire from a pod similar to what Hanwha has proposed.