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Azerbaijan is interested to purchase Russian-made Luchnik-E short-range air defense missile system 1.
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| Friday, August 15, 2014 02:26 PM | |||
| Azerbaijan is interested to purchase Russian-made Luchnik-E short-range air defense missile system. | |||
According
a statement published on APA Azerbaijan Press Agency website, Azerbaijani
is interested in Luchnik-E anti-aircraft missile complexes of Russia,
representative of Russia’s Machine-Building Design Bureau Georgy
Kuzyk told Arms-TASS in Oboronexpo-2014 exhibition. |
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 Luchnik-E short-range air defense missile system uses 8 Igla-S missiles ready to fire. |
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Kazakhstan
is significantly modernizing its Armed Forces at present and Russia is
ready to offer its’ most up-to-date military equipment to Kazakhstan. Luchnik-E system is equipped with 16 missiles from Igla-S Portable Air Defense System and modern 24-hour optoelectronic target acquisition system that is able to follow four air targets at the same time. The Luchnik-E short-range self-propelled air-defence missile system (SPSRAD MS) developed by KBM RPC, JSC together with SAZ JSC and GRPZ JSC is intended for protection of small-size assets and military units (including those on the march) from low-flying air threats by engaging them with 9M342 fire-and-forget missiles from the 9K338 Igla-S MANPADS in optical countermeasure and natural clutter environment, round-the-clock in an automatic mode of target detection and tracking. The SA-24 Grinch (Russian name Igla-S 9K338) is the latest generation of Russian portable air defense missile system. The Igla-S tactical and technical characteristics enable it to destroy targets at altitudes up to 5-7 km. The limiting altitude of effective target destruction is 3.5 km. The Luchnik-E can be used autonomously and as part of an air-defence unit (battery) under automated combat management from battery command posts such as 9S737MK Ranzhir-MK, PPRU-M1, PU-12 etc. The system is capable of defeating advanced fixed - and rotary-wing tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles in the day- and night-time. The system can engage air threats while moving at up to 20km/h. The Luchnik-E turret is mounted on an MT-LB tracked multirole armoured vehicle which provides high mobility in all-terrain conditions and amphibious capability. Along with Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan also expressed interest to Luchnik-E ZRK. |
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