PAF Crotale Surface-to-air Missile system and Radar

[Beskar]

I don't think we ever had a picture of our Crotale system on our website before! So here you go!

Crotale surface-to-air missile system on display at Chaklala Air Base during Defence Day display - 6 Sep 2008.

 

[Destructlord]

Iran "Reverse Engineering" Crotale, They have changed the name to "Shahab Saqeb", Is the Crotale capable againt modern aircrafts threat?

 

[Beskar]

Iran "Reverse Engineering" Crotale, They have changed the name to "Shahab Saqeb", Is the Crotale capable againt modern aircrafts threat?

That's awesome! I didn't know they were reverse engineering the Crotale. Do you have any article on the capabilities of the self-produced Shahab Saqeb?

 

[Jihad]

Bezerk you freaking rock man, thanks alot for posting this!

 

[Destructlord]

That's awesome! I didn't know they were reverse engineering the Crotale. Do you have any article on the capabilities of the self-produced Shahab Saqeb?

Of course there is brother! Chinese HQ-7 is an example! Shahab Saqeb is almost like the Chinese version, I have no information about specification of Iranian version!

* Missile dimensions: (length) 3.00 m; (diameter) 0.156 m; (wingspan) 0.55 m
* Launch weight: 84.5 kg
* Operating altitude: 30~5,000 m
* Minimum operating range: 500 m
* Max operating range: 8,600 m (400 m/s target); 10,000 m (300 m/s target); 12,000m (slow flying targets)
* Speed: Mach 2.3 (750 m/s)
* Guidance: Command + electro-optical tracking
* Warhead: HE-FRAG with proximity fuse
* Single shot hit probability: 70~80%
* Radar detecting range: 18.4 km
* Radar homing range: 17 km

 

[Destructlord]

BTW we're using them as naval air defence system!