Hellenic Crotale-NG at the NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) on the island of Crete. :ar15:





VT-1 missile

The Crotale NG VT-1 missile features a high level of manoeuvrability with load factors up to 35g up to 8km with the airframe capable of withstanding 50g. Speed is Mach 3.5, using a solid propellant rocket motor. The VT1 has an effective range of about 11km and ceiling of over 6,000m. In March 2001, Thales Air Defence (formerly Shorts Missile Systems) were awarded a contract for the manufacture of the VT1 missile.

The Command to Line Of Sight (CLOS) guidance uses radar and electro-optical sensors. The missile is armed with a focused blast and fragmentation warhead, initiated by an RF proximity fuse. The warhead provides a lethal blast radius of 8m. Typical interception time from firing to airborne target destruction at a distance of 8km is 10.3s.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/crotale/

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This is an old missle, at least 25 years old. Has it or the radar interception system been upgraded?

Interesting subject...

till now ...no updates Landos...as far as i know...(french systems are very expensive as you know)...
also the Crotale...haid been bought from the Navy to protect the harbors...
IMO...it was another so called political byus ...un nessesary...