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At the DSA 2022 (Defense Services Asia) exhibition in Malaysia, the Malaysian company Weststar showcased the RapidRanger Starstreak air defence system.
RapidRanger is mounted on a turret onboard the wheeled, light, tactical URO Vamtac 4×4 vehicle. It features electro-optics and four ready-to-launch missile containers with an equal number of ready-to-launch STARSstreak missiles. URO Vamtac 4×4 was showcased during DEFEA Defence exhibition in Athens as well as the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair last year.
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STARStreak is a Man-portable air-defence system (MANPADS), manufactured by Thales in the United Kingdom to provide air-defence against air threats, including fixed-wing fighter aircraft and attack helicopters.
This missile is equipped with three “Darts” submunitions, each carrying 450 gr of explosive charge, detonated by a delayed-action, impact-activated fuse.
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The main components of the RAPIDRanger Starstreak are a servo-driven turret and the weapon’s operator Human Machine Interface (HMI). The turret incorporates a Stabilized Sight Head (SSH) including a 360° sensor system with either a built-in passive infrared sensor (InfraRed Search and Track – IRST) or integrated Surveillance and Track Radar as well as an Automatic Target Tracker (ATT) system. In addition, it features a laser guidance unit and an optional laser rangefinder, thus providing the weapon station with a completely autonomous system operation.
The technical characteristics of RAPIDRanger STARSstreak include:
- Weight: > 500 kg
- Operational range: 15 km
- Maximum missile range: 7 km
- Maximum missile speed: Mach 3
- Missile weight: 14 kg
Finally, it should be noted that Great Britain announced the supply of Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine due to the Russian invasion.
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