January 9, 2017 (armyrecognition.com) In 2016,
the Ukrainian government has approved a new program for the development of new
air defense system including a new medium-range missile under the name of "Dnipro".
This new air defense system will be able to detect aircraft up to a range of
150 km. This new Ukrainian air defense system will enhanced the capacity of
Ukrainian armed forces to protect its airspace. This new surface-to-air
missile will have the capacity to destroy aircraft but also all types of
helicopters, drones and cruise missiles at medium and short distances.
New mobile launcher station of Dnipro surface-to-air missile
The new air defense system DNIPRO has all-weather
capability during day and night. The
system provides a detection range of more than 150 km and coverage to an
altitude up to 7,000m. It can destroy aerial targets from a distance of 15 m to
25 km. The system can be deployed and prepared for firing
in less than four minutes. The surveillance control centre includes a
surveillance radar used phased-array antenna technology which creates a beam of
radio waves which can be electronically steered to point in different
directions, without moving the antennas. The radar is mounted on a 6x6 military
truck chassis. According a drawing released on an Ukrainian internet website,
the mobile launch unit will be fitted with four missile silos ready to fire
mounted to the back of a trailer. The missile control center is linked by cable
or by radio data communications to the surveillance control centre to
coordinate all information about the target. The
DNIPRO air defense missile system can simultaneously engage up to 6 air targets
with 12 missiles.
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