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Mistral is a short-range air defence (SHORAD) missile system that can be used from vehicles, surface ships, and helicopters, as well as in a portable configuration. The "Mistral" missile is transported in a transport and launch container (MPC) together with "friend or foe" interrogator, power source and tripod with its sighting devices.
Maximum speed. 55 miles per hour (89 km/h) (launcher) Mach 2.2 (effector) 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 ...
In August 2023, MBDA presented a four-missile launcher mockup for Mistral missiles for the Skyranger 30, double the capacity compared to the original concept. [11] At ILA Berlin Air Show 2024, a variant equipped with 9 Small Anti Drone Missiles was presented by Rheinmetall Air Defence and MBDA Deutschland; the SADM is based on the MBDA Enforcer.
Janes [ 3 ] The FIM-92 Stinger is an American man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles, and from helicopters and drones as the Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS). It entered service in 1981 and is used by the militaries of ...
Akeron MP system on display (Dubai Airshow, 2021) The MMP programme originated in 2009 [7] to develop a successor to MBDA's forty-year old MILAN. This was particularly in response to a French urgent operational requirement which had also led to the purchase of the US-made Javelin in 2010, rather than additional MILAN missiles; [8] 260 Javelins were ordered because of the missile's fire-and ...
Description. Mk 1. Twin Arm Terrier Launcher on USS Mississippi for initial Terrier testing. Mk 4. Early Twin-arm launcher for the RIM-2 Terrier. Fit only to the Boston -class guided missile cruisers. Vertically loading design distinguished this launcher from the horizontally loading Mk 9 and Mk 10. Mk 5. Twin-arm launcher for the Terrier ...
M142 HIMARS. The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS, / ˈhaɪmɑːrz /) is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army and mounted on a standard U.S. Army Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) M1140 truck frame. The HIMARS carries one pod with either six Guided Multiple Launch ...
The RT-2PM ICBM was designed to be road mobile and is mounted on a heavy truck (MAZ-7310 or MAZ-7917). The RT-2PM is a road mobile 3-stage, single warhead ICBM. Its 23,500 mm length and 2,170 mm diameter are approximately the same size and shape as the U.S. Minuteman ICBM. It has a throw-weight of 1,400 kg and carries a single warhead with a ...