I just read that Brazil wants to cooperate with MBDA to make an anti-aircraft defense by using ASTROS II system. If Egypt has the production licence then we can do the same thing by using another/same missile or even our indigenous missile (akid i hope we are developing a missile).
I think
@The SC @Gomig-21 @Philip the Arab @Hydration you will like this idea
Nelson During Editor-chefe DefesaNet O consórcio europeu MBDA e a brasileira AVIBRAS Aeroespacial anunciam desenvolvimento conjunto na área de defesa antiaérea de média altura. As duas empresas, com vários desenvolvimentos em conjunto, anunciam pela primeira vez a solução desenvolvida em...
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MBDA and AVIBRAS announce medium-height Anti-Aircraft Defense project
The European consortium
MBDA and the Brazilian
AVIBRAS Aeroespacial announce joint development in the area of medium-rise anti-aircraft defense. The two companies, with several developments together, announce for the first time the solution developed jointly for the medium-height anti-aircraft defense project: the adaptation of the
CAMM (Common Anti-Air Modular Missile) system, MBDA's state-of-the-art product, for use by the Brazilian Armed Forces.
The concept presented involves the development of a Brazilian missile from the CAMM system - initially called AV-MMA, and the use of all the technologies and vehicles already developed for the ASTROS 2020 System, one of AVIBRAS' most successful products. The project has about 70% national content.
CAMM represents MBDA's new generation of missile systems for anti-aircraft defense, offering complete protection against all known or predicted air targets. It is called modular because of the possibility of using the same system by the three Forces, which reduces development, maintenance, support and logistics costs.
"This is another action to strengthen the Brazilian Defense industry that MBDA promotes in partnership with AVIBRAS, through which we provide the development of national technologies from high-tech systems," says Ricardo Mantovani, MBDA's regional Sales executive.
The CAMM system has already been contracted by the Royal British Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy, and is currently under review by other countries also for naval use. Its Earth and Air versions will be available from 2016.
CAMM's performance
CAMM is a multiplatform mid-height anti-aircraft defense project. Both for Naval and Terrestrial use. It will replace the Rapier (terrestrial) missile and Sea Wolf (Naval).
The launch mode is vertical, which makes it enabled for use on naval platforms.
Maximum Range + 25 km
Minimum Range < 1km
Speed > Mach 2.5
Ground - Vehicle 4 t capacity
Naval - Single or quadruple modules
The AV-MMA Project
The decision of the two companies to present what would be the
AV-MMA (Medium Height Missile) lies in the feeling that the
PANTSIR-S1 project does not leave the project status.
The always denied, but with growing rumors, of the association or purchase of AVIBRAS by
Odebrecht Defense and Technology leads to the current
CAMM / AV-MMA project being adopted by the Brazilian Armed Forces. (
See article Link)
In a discreet corner of its chalet, at LAAD 2013, AVIBRAS already had the conceptual study of AV-MMA. Out of the eyes of the press and only for guests, the company's Board of Directors, led by Sami Hassuani, presented the project to the military commanders and the Minister of Defense.
This article publishes exclusive photos taken during the Minister of Defense's visit to the AVIBRAS chalet. Note that the missile profile is very reminiscent of that of MBDA MICA VL. Then there was a possibility for the MBDA BVR MICA missile to be chosen as a BVR missile if in the F-X2 Program Brazil opted for the Rafale fighter.
The AVIBRAS concept is still under development including the cannon part of Rheinmetall (successor of the Swiss cannon group Oerlikon)
All systems will be mounted on ASTROS 2020 platforms. The chassis of the Czech company TATRA is currently in use. There are options to exchange for another platform, but the negative experience with the boycott of Mercedes-Benz in the sale to Malaysia has prevented the option for the also German
MAN and its association with
Rhinemetall, creating the
RMMV.
Informally, MBDA and AVIBRAS Aeroespacial announced the project during an event in Brasilia on the security of major events last October.
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