Purpose:

The Luchnik-E Very Short Range Air Defence Missile System (VSHORAD MS) developed by KBM RPC, JSC together with SAZ JSC and GRPZ JSC is intended for protection of small-size assets and military units (including those on the march) from low-flying air threats by engaging them with 9M342 fire-and-forget missiles from the 9К338 Igla-S MANPADS in optical countermeasure and natural clutter environment, round-the-clock in an automatic mode of target detection and tracking.

 

Luchnik-E VSHORAD MS

The system is capable of defeating advanced fixed - and rotary-wing tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles in the day- and night-time. The system can engage air threats while moving at up to 20km/h.

 

Luchnik-E VSHORAD MS features:

● high mobility, autonomous operation,  cross-country and amphibious capability, transportable by a helicopter as a sling lift, by air, railway, water, and semitrailers;

● highly concealed combat use due to employment of passive day and night surveillance and tracking means;

● possibility of both autonomous operation and as part of an air-defence unit (battery) under automated combat management from battery command posts such as 9S737MK Ranzhir-MK, PPRU-M1,  PU-12 etc.;

● either automatic cued or autonomous target search by scanning in the ordered sector of responsibility, manual/automatic target acquisition and tracking of up to 4 targets by the on-board electro-optical day-and-night station (EODNS);

● selection of missile firing mode based on air situation, target type, and required destruction level;

● optional capability of shoulder-firing by two operators with launching mechanisms from the combat vehicle's organic equipment; 

● increased carried missile load.

Major specifications:

Number of missiles on launcher/in stowage, pcs	8/8
Firing mode	Single, successive, salvo launch; head-on, tail-chase
Launcher laying angles, deg: - azimuth - elevation	360 – 15 to +70
Number of independent firing channels (including shoulder-firing by crew members)	Three (3): 1 channel: CV launcher, 2 channels: two 9P522 launching mechanisms
Target detection range, km: - CM, UAV - rotary-wing aircraft - fixed-wing aircraft	not less than 4.5; not less than 6; not less than 10
System reaction time,   not greater than,  s:	8.5
Time for changing CV from travelling to combat position and vice versa, max., minutes	3
Time for reloading complete missile load (eight missiles) by two crew members, max., minutes	15
Time for combat readiness of deployed combat equipment from power-off condition, minutes	3
Maximum speed on road/afloat, km/h	61.5/5-6
Crew	3

 

Components:

Combat equipment:

- I34 combat vehicle (CV organic equipment includes two 9P522 launching mechanisms of Igla-S MANPADS);

- 9M342 missiles of Igla-S MANPADS.

Maintenance facilities:

- 9V866-2 mobile test station (MTS) for scheduled checks of 9M342 missiles and 9P522 LMs;

- 9F719-2 test equipment set for scheduled checks of 9M342 missiles and 9P522 LMs (for arsenals and depots);

- 288.30.00.000 maintenance kit for CV servicing.

Training aids:

-AKYAT.00002  training set for training operators in target search, detection and lock-on, and in launching missiles;

-9M342-MAKET.000 size-and-weight dummy of the missile in launch tube for training operators in missile reloading on the CV;

-288.50.00. 000 set of size-and-weight dummies of the universal launch module for training operators in missile reloading on the CV.