Shorad on the go: self-propelled systems intended to provide short-range air defence on the battlefield are evolving to meet the challenges of high intensity and asymmetric operations.
Armada International › Vol. 30 Nbr. 6, December 2006
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Air Defence
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Shorad on the go: self-propelled systems intended to provide short-range air defence on the battlefield are evolving to meet the challenges of high intensity and asymmetric operations.
For much of the past 50 years low-level air defence on the battlefield has concentrated against the threat from fighter ground attack aircraft and battlefield helicopters. Over recent years air defence systems have evolved to better counter these threats both by day and by night and also have expanded their target envelope to engage the growing threat of unmanned air vehicles and cruise missiles. Such systems must be highly mobile to support the strategic and tactical deployments of modern expeditionary forces. Increasingly, short-range air defence (also known as shorad) systems are being integrated with longer range systems capable of engaging ballistic missiles and--in the future--rocket, artillery and mortar threats.
At the lowest level mobile air defence is provided by missile systems many of which were developed i...See the full content of this document
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