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9P51 (BCU)

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Russian Federation
USSR

The 9P51 (9П51) is a Soviet-era-developed, Russian Federation, battery cooling unit (BCU), which is used with the 9P59 (9П59) transport and launching tube of the 9M36 (9М36) surface-to-air missile (SAM). The 9P51 provides electrical power via a thermal battery and seeker sensor cooling via expansion of high-pressure nitrogen gas stored in a spheroidal pressure vessel. The 9P51 is known in Russian as an NIP (НИП), which in full is 'Nazemnyy...

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