China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) used the Eurosatory 2014 exhibition to publicise its new Red Arrow 12 shoulder-fired antitank missile system. This is China's first infantry-launched fire-and-forget antitank weapon.
Designed to be carried and fired by a single soldier, a complete Red Arrow 12 system weighs 22 kg, with the launch tube and missile accounting for 17 kg of this total weight. The launch tube is 1.25 m long, but no official figures have been released for the diameter of the tube, or the length and diameter of the missile.
To judge from a photograph showing a missile launch, the missile is about 98 cm long and 13.5 cm in diameter, while the launch tube is about 17 cm in diameter.
