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Land-based platforms (SAMP/T) Loading onto HMS Diamond. The Aster 15 and Aster 30 are a Franco-Italian family of all-weather, vertical launch surface-to-air missiles. [ 5] The name " Aster " stands for "Aérospatiale Terminale", with French company Aérospatiale having been the project's lead contractor before its missile activities were merged ...
FIM-92 Stinger. The FIM-92 Stinger is an American man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles, and from helicopters and drones as the Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS). It entered service in 1981 and is used by the militaries ...
SAMP/T (MBDA Aster missile) (Franco-Italian) land-based SHORAD/MRAD system; RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (American-German) shipboard SHORAD system; TLVS (PAC-3 MSE, IRIS-T SL missiles) (German-American) land-based SHORAD/MRAD system; Barak 1 (Indian-Israeli) shipboard SHORAD system; Barak 8 (Indian-Israeli) land-based MRAD system
The S-400 Triumf (Russian: C-400 Триумф – Triumf; translation: Triumph; NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler ), previously known as the S-300 PMU-3, [ 4 ] is a mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system developed in the 1990s by Russia's NPO Almaz as an upgrade to the S-300 family of missiles. The S-400 was approved for service on 28 ...
160 km (max) The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system. The AN/MPQ-53 at the heart of the system is known as the ...
XM307 Advanced Crew Served Weapon. The XM307 Advanced Crew Served Weapon (ACSW) was a developmental 25 mm belt-fed automatic grenade launcher with programmable airburst capability. It is the result of the OCSW or Objective Crew Served Weapon project. It is lightweight and designed to be two-man portable, as well as vehicle mounted.
The Medium Extended Air Defense System ( MEADS) is a ground-mobile air and missile defense system intended to replace the Patriot missile system through a NATO-managed development. [1] The program is a development of the United States, Germany and Italy. MEADS is designed to address the shortcomings of fielded systems and to permit full ...
There were approximately 67,000 air defense troops in Ukraine in 1992. The new Air Defence Forces headquarters was formed on the basis of the HQ 8th Air Defence Army. There were three air defence corps: the 28th ( Lviv ), 49th (Odesa), and 60th ( Dnipropetrovsk ). All three air defence corps were taken over by Ukraine on 1 February 1992.