Pantsir-SA Arctic Air Defense.

Technical Data

• Armament

  The Pantsir-SA is fitted with a similar weapon station as the Pantsir-S1 but without 30mm cannon. The main armament consists of 18 launchers for 57E6 surface-to-air guided missiles, nine in three rows on each side of the turret. The missiles can hit a target with a range from 1,200 to 20,000 m at an altitude from 5 to 15,000 m.
  
  The Pantsir-SA is fitted with a Pantsir-S1 turret with 18 surface-to-air missile launchers mounted on the second vehicle of the DT-30PM-T1

• Design and protection

  The Pantsir-SA is based on the chassis of the DT-30PM-T1 tracked articulated tractor (DT stands for ‘articulated tractor’ in Russian), an all-terrain vehicle which consists of two tracked vehicle units linked by a steering mechanism. The DT-30PM is specially designed to be used in the harsh climatic conditions of the Arctic region. The first vehicle of the DT-30PM is a tracked platform with water-displacing sealed all-welded body housing a crew cabin for 4 - 7 people equipped with autonomous heating and air ventilation systems, power plant, transmission and a cargo compartment located at the rear of the crew cab. The Pantsir-S1 weapon station is mounted on the tracked chassis of the second vehicle. The DT-30PM has a curb weight of 31,500 kg, a payload of 30,000 kg and a length of 16.08 m, a width of 3.10 m and a height of 3.33 m.
  
  Close view of the first vehicle of Pantsir-SA

• Mobility

  The Pantsir-SA uses the same chassis and powerpack as the standard DT-30PM. The vehicle is motorized with a V-shaped, 12-cylinder multi-fuel diesel engine YaMZ-847.10 developing 800 hp. The DT-30PM can run at a maximum road speed of 45 km/h with a maximum cruising range of 700 km. The DT-30PM can negotiate gradients up to 30° and slope of 15°. It can cross a trench of 4.5 m in width and a vertical obstacle of 1.2 m.

• Combat Use

  The Pantsir weapon station can conduct fire at two targets at the same time and attack up to 12 targets within a minute. The system's effective range for missiles is 20 kilometers and the maximum altitude is eight kilometers, and for artillery shells up to three and four kilometers respectively. It can also operate in a passive mode using an infrared channel in the long-wave band with logical processing of the signal and automatic tracking. The Pantsir weapon station is able to defeat almost the entire spectrum of air threats, all types of precision-guided weapons in particular, flying at a speed of up to 1,000 m/s and approaching from different bearings at an angle of 0- 10 ° to 60 - 70°, aircraft flying at a speed of up to 500 m/s, helicopters, remotely piloted vehicles, as well as light armoured ground targets and enemy manpower. The combination of missile and gun armament enabling the operator to create a continuous target engagement zone and fire at targets uninterruptedly beginning from their maximum range of 18 to 20 km up to a range of minimum 200 m. Target flying at an altitude of 5 to 15 km can be shot down. The Pantsir weapon station is equipped with multiple-mode adaptive radar/optical weapons control system operating in the UHF, EHF and IR regions of the spectrum. The system features high immunity to jamming, survivability in the presence of electronic countermeasures and under enemy fire.
  The Pantsir weapon station fire control system includes a target acquisition radar and dual waveband tracking radar (designation 1RS2-1E for export models), which operates in the UHF and EHF waveband. Detection range is 32–36 km and tracking range is 24–28 km for a target with 2 m2 RCS. This radar tracks both targets and the surface-to-air missile while in flight. As well as radar, the fire control system also has an electro-optic channel with long-wave thermal imager and infrared direction finder, including digital signal processing and automatic target tracking.