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Taifun 9M15 (typhoon) was a Soviet missile developed to arm the Obiekt 287 missile tank based on the T-64 tank chassis. The tank was armed with two 73 mm 2A28 low pressure guns mounted either side of a popup missile launcher. Both the guns and the missile launcher were automatically loaded, the guns each being fed from two eight round drums, giving a total of 32 guns rounds and 15 missiles stored in the tank. The missile launch platform was vertically stabilised, allowing the vehicle to move at low speed and fire. The guns were remotely controlled by the gunner and commander from the front of the hull.
The Taifun missile had a body diameter of 140 mm. It was fitted with a dual purpose warhead with a HEAT shaped charge capable of penetrating 500 mm of armour, and a fragmentation effect roughly equivalent to a 100 mm HE-FRAG shell. The missile was MCLOS radio command guided from the tank. The missile had an engagement envelope of between 500 and 4000 m.
Tests were conducted in April 1964, during which the tank performed poorly, and as a result the tank and missile were not accepted for service.
Taifun ( German for "typhoon") was a German World War II anti-aircraft unguided rocket system. Waves of Taifuns were to be launched en masse into US B-17 Flying Fortress formations hoping for a direct hit. Although never deployed operationally, the system was copied in the US as the Loki, and the USSR as R-103.
The Taifun project originally dates to 25 September 1942, when Hermann Göring authorized the start of a number of anti-aircraft projects after a long hiatus when all such advanced development had been frozen by Hitler. Along with the Taifun, the Enzian, Rheintochter, Schmetterling, and Wasserfall were also given full funding. The design was originally started by Scheufeln, an officer at Peenemünde, who wanted to introduce an extremely simple system in case the more complex projects did not "work out".
The Taifun proposal was developed by a small team at Peenemünde along with the Electromechanische Werke in Karlshagen. Their design was long and in diameter, with four small stabilizing fins at the base. The rocket was driven by a liquid fuelled engine using Tonka 250, a hypergolic mixture comprising 57 percent of raw xylidine and 43 of triethylamine fed into the combustion chamber under pressure. The pressure was provided by small cordite charges fired into the fuel tanks, in the process bursting a pair of thin diaphragms to allow the fuel and oxidizer to flow into the combustion chamber, and launched the rocket. The burn was 2.5 seconds, by which time the rocket had achieved a speed of . Nominal range was to have been about , with a maximum altitude of . The rockets were fired in salvos of up to 30 from a launcher mounted on an adapted 88 mm gun mounting.
The original plans called for 2 million to have been produced by January 1945, but the engine experienced lengthy delays and none was ever deployed operationally. The only such system to see operational use was British, who deployed both the Unrotated Projectile and 2 inch RP during the war.
Taifun is the debut studio album by Indonesian pop-blues group Barasuara. The album was released on October 16, 2015 through Juni Suara Kreasi and distributed by Demajors. The album's lead single, “Bahas Bahasa” on September 16 and released on iTunes. Before holding a tour, the group returned releasing second single "Sendu Melagu".
To promote the album, Barasuara embarked the Taifun Tour in May 2016. The group will hold several shows in six Indonesian cities, began in Yogyakarta, Malang, Surabaya, Solo, Bandung and the last in Jakarta. The album was nominated for The Best Album at the 2015 Hai Reader’s Poll Music Awards. At the 3rd Indonesian Choice Awards, Taifun was nominated for Album of the Year, but lost to Isyana Sarasvati's Explore!.
Taifun was a Soviet missile.
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