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| Wednesday,
March 6, 2013, 01:00 PM |
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| Brazil
to buy Russian-made air defence system Pantsir-S1 to ensure security during
sporting events. |
Brazil
intends to buy Russian air defense systems Pantsir-S1 to ensure security
during the football world championship in 2014 and Olympic Games of 2016,
announced Tuesday, March 5, 2013, to RIA Novosti a source close to the
Russian agency of export arms, Rosoboronexport.
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Pantsir-S1
is currently in service with the Russian armed forces.
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"Brazil has confirmed its interest to buy Russian-made
air defense systems Pantsir-S1
which it intends to use to ensure security during the World Championship
Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016," said interlocutor
of Rosoboronexport.
According to him, Rio directly links this project to acquire technologies
that enable Brazilian companies to participate in the production of
Pantsir-S1
system.
The short-range anti-aircraft missile/cannon system Pantsir-S1
is designed to protect military and civilian sites (nuclear power plants,
large factories, large sites) or to support the long range air defense
systems S-300
and S-400.
Each vehicle of Pantsir-S system is able to protecting land area in
a radius of 20 km and an altitude up to 15 km.
The Pantsir-S1
is armed with two 2A38M 30mm automatic anti-aircraft guns developed from
the two-barreled 30mm GSh-30 gun, coupled with twelve 57E6 surface-to-air
missiles on launchers. The
Pantsir-S1 is able to defeat almost the entire spectrum of air threats,
all types of precision guided weapons in particular, flying at a speed
of up to 1,000 m/s and approaching from different bearings at an angle
of 0- 10 ° to 60 - 70°, aircraft flying at a speed of up to 500
m/s, helicopters, remotely piloted vehicles, as well as light armoured
ground targets and enemy manpower. The
Pantsir-S is able to hit four targets simultaneously. |
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