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Vietnam has selected Israeli Rafael Spyder as new short-range air defense missile system 12510152.
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Defence & Security News - Vietnam
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Vietnam has selected Israeli Rafael Spyder as new short-range air defense missile system. | |||
According Russian blog military-informant.com, Vietnam has selected the Israeli-made Spyder as new short-range air defense missile system. The Israeli system was in competition with the Russian-made Pantsir-S1.
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Rafael Spyder-SR short-range air defense missile system at Paris le Bourget Air Show.
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The Vietnamese commander of Air Defense Forces, Lieutenant-General Le Duy Vinh, has announced that the Israeli Spyder combined to the Russian-made S-300PMU1 and the radar 36D6 will be the backbone of air defense for the Vietnamese armed forces.
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The Spyder is an air defense missile system designed and manufactured by the Israeli Company Rafael. The system is available in two variants, the Spyder-SR short-range air defense missile system and Spyder-MR medium-range air defense missile system. The SPYDER-SR is a combat-proven, quick reaction, low level surface-to-air missile system designed to effectively counter attacks by aircraft, helicopters UAVs stand-off weapons and precision guided munitions. SPYDER-SR provides excellent protection of valuable assets, as well as first-class defense for forces located in the combat area. The Spyder-SR has the capacity to intercept aerial threats from a range of 1 to 20km and an altitude between 20 m to 9,000 m. The SPYDER system incorporates RAFAEL's most advanced, proven performance air-to-air missiles – the Derby active radar (RF) missile and Python-5, a dual waveband Imaging Infra Red (IIR) missile.The whole system includes the SPYDER's truck-mounted Missile Firing Units (MFU) are equipped with both IIR and RF missiles. The truck-mounted Command and Control Unit (CCU) comprises the Elta EL/M 2106 ATAR 3D surveillance radar. |
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