Thursday, January 30, 2014

Diehl continues IRIS-T surface-to-air testing at Overberg Test Range

IRIS-T SLMDiehl Defence has successfully tested its IRIS-T SLM Ground Based Air Defence System at the Overberg Test Range, in the presence of military representatives from 16 countries.

Diehl has tested the IRIS-T SL (Surface Launched) missile at Overberg before, but the tests conducted earlier this month used different hardware and a new command and control system.

The configuration tested on January 14 consisted of the IRIS-T SL launcher, new CEAFAR active phased array radar from CEA Technologies in Australia, the BMD-Flex command, control and communication system from Terma in Denmark and the Oerlikon Skymaster battle management system from Rheinmetall Air Defence in Switzerland.

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