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A Starstreak, just after being launched from an AN/TWQ-1 Avenger mobile, short-range air-defence platform. When used in the light or MANPADS role, the Starstreak missile is transported in a sealed launch tube. This tube is attached to an aiming unit for firing. The operator tracks the target using the aiming unit's optically stabilized sight.
Starstreak LML United Kingdom: Surface-to-air missile system: 145 [122] The Starstreak Lightweight Multiple Launcher (LML) is a short-range, highly mobile air defence system that holds three missiles ready for firing and can be used as either a stationary launch unit or mounted on a light vehicle, such as a Land Rover.
The Avenger Air Defense System, designated AN/TWQ-1 under the Joint Electronics Type Designation System, is an American self-propelled surface-to-air missile system which provides mobile, short-range air defense protection for ground units against cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, low-flying fixed-wing aircraft, and helicopters.
ForceSHIELD (Starstreak missile) (Franco-British) land-based VSHORAD system; MEADS (PAC-3 MSE missile) (German-Italian-American) (cancelled) land-based MRAD system;
A 9K38 Igla (NATO reporting name: SA-18) dual missile launch platform mounted on a Mercedes-Benz Unimog of the Mexican Navy in a Mexican military parade. Man-portable air defense systems are a popular black market item for insurgent forces. [25]
A new, improved launch unit for the Javelin missile can do more than just launch the now-famous anti-tank missile: it can also launch anti-air Stinger missiles.The new Lightweight Command Launch ...
Launchers are being retrofitted to launch the RIM-162D Evolved Sea Sparrow. Mk 32 Single round launcher for the standard missile. Used only by Taiwan, currently fit to the Chi Yang-class frigates. [3] Mk 41: The vertical launch system first fitted to USS Bunker Hill. These launchers are highly versatile and can launch a wide range of USN ordnance.
The missile is powered by a short duration solid rocket for launch, then by a sustainer motor once it is well clear of the launch tube. [ 2 ] The Blowpipe's guidance is initially semi-automatic with the missile gathered to the centre of the sight's crosshairs by the infrared optic atop the aiming unit.