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Loading onto HMS Diamond. The Aster 15 and Aster 30 are a Franco-Italian family of all-weather, vertical launch surface-to-air missiles. [5] The name "Aster" stands for "Aérospatiale Terminale", with French company Aérospatiale having been the project's lead contractor before its missile activities were merged into MBDA.
36 SAM systems with 275 missiles. [23] [24] QW-18A: Man-portable air-defense system China: FN-16: Man-portable air-defense system: 250 China [23] [24] QW-2 MANPADS: Man-portable air-defense system: 250 China: Bangladesh procured 250 QW-2 missiles between 2004 and 2007, "presumably with an undisclosed number of gripstocks as well". [23] [24] [47 ...
NASAMS 3 (AMRAAM missile) (Norwegian-American) land-based SHORAD system; PAAMS / Sea Viper (MBDA Aster missile) (Franco-British-Italian) shipboard SHORAD/MRAD system; SAMP/T (MBDA Aster missile) (Franco-Italian) land-based SHORAD/MRAD system; RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (American-German) shipboard SHORAD system; TLVS (PAC-3 MSE, IRIS-T SL ...
Global Rocket 1 fractional orbital bombardment system missile (Russia; Cold War) (NATO reporting name SS-X-10 Scrag) Gorodomlya G-1 - Developed by a German team at Gorodomlya island (57°12'0.06"N, 33° 4'0.02"E) in 1948, based on the V-2 with detachable warhead and integral propellant tanks.
In August 1999 FSAF was extended to include PAAMS, the Principal Anti Air Missile System. PAAMS uses both Aster 15 and Aster 30 missiles for self-defence, local area defence and long range area defence. PAAMS is managed by EUROPAAMS, a joint venture between Eurosam (66%) and MBDA subsidiary UKAMS (33%). MBDA also owns 66% of Eurosam, in effect ...
Its name is an abbreviation of Missile d'Interception, de Combat et d'Auto-défense (lit. ' Interception, Combat and Self-protection Missile '). [3] It is intended for use both by air platforms as individual missiles as well as ground units and ships, which can be equipped with the rapid fire MICA Vertical Launch System.
This list of missiles by country displays the names of missiles in order of the country where they originate (were developed), with the countries listed alphabetically and annotated with their continent (and defence alliance, if applicable). In cases where multiple nations have developed or produced a missile, it is listed under each ...
4 × 8 cell A-43 Sylver launchers carrying the MBDA Aster 15 surface-to-air missile. 2 × 6 cell Sadral launchers carrying Mistral short-range missiles; 20mm autocannons; 8 × Giat 20F2 20 mm cannons (original) 3 × Nexter Narwhal (since 2019) Aircraft carried: 30–40 aircraft, [7] [8] including; 30 Rafale M (standard) [9] 2 E-2C Hawkeye; 2 ...