Ukraine’s Luch state design bureau has successfully tested an extended-range S-125M Pechora (NATO designation SA-3 Goa) surface-to-air system, which utilises a modernised missile.
According to information released by the Kiev-based company, the upgraded 5V27D-M2 missile uses an active radar seeker as well as new rocket fuel.
The development was undertaken in cooperation with another Ukrainian company, Radionics, which supplies the new radar seeker.
During the initial phase of flight the upgraded missile follows a ballistic trajectory, without receiving guidance cues, in order to extend range.
The new combined guidance method - using the ballistic trajectory aimed at the calculated
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The new Bushmasters will be used by the Australian Army’s second long-range fires regiment, to be based at the Edinburgh Defence Precinct in South Australia as part of the 10th Fires Brigade.
The British Army’s Land Mobility Programme (LMP) has struggled to make it to competition but there are hopes progress will be made this year.
The aid stations are designed to be mounted onto trucks, such as the Rheinnetall HX family of vehicles, and will be in ballistic protected and unprotected versions.
The contract is for transmissions for the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (JSMC) in Lima, Ohio for new tanks and overhaul and repair activities at Anniston Army Depot.
Jerusalem’s air defence capabilities procurement efforts will receive up to $190 million.
In the medium-term Lithuania has committed US$1.3 billion which includes Javelin ant-tank missiles, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), Black Hawk helicopters, missile systems and missiles.
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