SkyRanger Self Propelled Air defense
System
Oerlikon Contraves
(Switzerland)
Orlikon Contraves is developing an mobile air defense vehicle that
utilizes its 35mm AHEAD system. The integrated system will be
installed in a turret, which will include the gun system, and an
electro-optical search and track system, providing passive,
autonomous target acquisition capability. The system will also be
integrated into a battlefield forward area air defense network,
and receive targeting information via datalink, from remote radars
and other sensors. The company unveiled the first prototype of
the SkyRanger in Eurosatory 2004. Testing of the system are expected
to continue for two years, and a final version will be ready field
trials by mid 2006. The system is proposed as follow on for both
eastern and western SPAA systems such as the Shilka ZSU-23/4.
Orlikon Contraves is developing an mobile air defense vehicle that
utilizes its 35mm AHEAD system. The integrated system will be
installed in a turret, which will include the gun system, and an
electro-optical search and track system, providing passive,
autonomous target acquisition capability. The system will also be
integrated into a battlefield forward area air defense network,
and receive targeting information via datalink, from remote radars
and other sensors. The company unveiled the first prototype of
the SkyRanger in Eurosatory 2004. Testing of the system are expected
to continue for two years, and a final version will be ready field
trials by mid 2006. The system is proposed as follow on for both
eastern and western SPAA systems such as the Shilka ZSU-23/4.