Luchnik-E very short range air defence missile system
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 |
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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 |
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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.