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African countries including Cameroon interested for Russian Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft weapons system.
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| Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:25 AM | |||
| African countries including Cameroon interested for Russian Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft weapons system. | |||
The
Russian Defense Company KBP Instrument Design Bureau has completed the
delivery of anti-aircraft weapons system Pantsir-S1
to the United Arab Emirates. And now, during the defense exhibition in
India, Defexpo 2014, KBP and Rosoboronexport signed another contract to
negotiate the delivery of Pantsir-S1 to Brazil. |
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After the contract with United Arab Emirates and Algeria, Russia announced the signature for a new contract for the delivery of Pantsir-S for a total amount of $2.5 million. The company did not specify the name of the buyer country. Brazil is planning to purchase three batteries of Pantsir-S1, a total of 18 vehicles. The Russian anti-aircraft system Pantsir-S1 becomes now a leader in the short-range air defense systems. According to Company officials, several African countries would be interested to acquire such of air defense weapon systems, including Cameroon. The Pantsir-S1 is designed to provide air defense of small military and administrative-industrial areas against attacks of aircrafts, helicopters, cruise missiles and high-precision weapons, guided air bombs and unmanned aerial vehicles. The Pantsir-S1 is armed with two 2A38M 30mm automatic anti-aircraft guns developed from the two-barreled 30mm GSh-30 gun, coupled with twelve 57E6 surface-to-air missiles on launchers. The missile has a maximum range of 12 km, while guns have a maximum range of 4 km for aerial target and 3 km for ground targets. |
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