Poland Awards Anti-Aircraft Defense Contract

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http://www.defensenews.com/articles/poland-awards-anti-aircraft-defense-contract

 

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Pilica Anti-Aircraft System
A single Pilica platoon is going to be armed with six ZUR-23-2SP Jodek combined missile-artillery anti-aircraft systems, using 23 mm cannons and Grom anti-aircraft missiles. The latter armament is soon going to be replaced by the modernized Piorun MANPADS system. Optronics: the provided module features daytime and thermal vision camera, complemented with a laser range-finder. Pilica is also capable of cooperating with the “Deployable Soła Radar”

Pilica systems are configured as an autonomous platoon, they use a computerized fire control system, complemented with additional optronic devices. In the standard mode of operation, Pilica system is controlled via a wire-communications suite (based on optical fibres, at ranges of up to 5 kilometres) as well as via radio, with the use of a computerized command station, constituting a component of the battery. The station uses the data coming from radars, also from the Soła early warning 3D radar.

Grom missile is capable of neutralizing targets at distances of ca. 5 kilometres, while the 23 mm cannon has an effective range of 2 kilometres. In the optimum setting, a single battery is capable of defending an area of 350 square kilometres.

Sola radar

 

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