Spada 2000 plus complex inauguration in Karachi

[z9-ec]

 

[shehbazi2001]

Is it going ot be a repair/maintenance facility or its going to be the manufacturing/assembling facility of SPADA?, provided ToT has been concluded.

 

[fatman17]

Hell Yeah!

 

[metalfalcon]

Good News Indeed For Pakistan and PAF, SPADA will Replace PAF's Aging Crotale Missile System.

 

[blain2]

Is it going ot be a repair/maintenance facility or its going to be the manufacturing/assembling facility of SPADA?, provided ToT has been concluded.

Depot level maintenance (updates, re-lifing type capability). Not manufacturing.

 

[blain2]

Not a shabby record at all for Spada 2000:

Spada 2000 Ground based air defence missile system. (Photo: MBDA)

10:17 GMT, February 19, 2009 The Aspide 2000 missile has set yet another exceptional record in its long career. During an air defence exercise that took place at the end of January 2009, the Amoun battery of Kuwait’s Air Defence Brigade carried out five Aspide 2000 missile launches against a series of air targets simulating different types of attack scenarios. All of the launches were successful and all five targets were destroyed, either by direct impact or as a result of the warhead exploding within a miss distance of well below one meter. The launches were performed in different weather conditions (day and night) and showed once again the absolute reliability of MBDA’s Aspide 2000 missile.

As a result of this exercise, the Aspide 2000 was able to establish an absolute record in terms of percentage launch success, establishing a success rate exceeding 97% from over 600 missiles launched around the world. With over 5,000 missiles having already been produced, Aspide is now experiencing a new dawn in its latest “2000” version.

Ing. Fabrizio Giulianini, MBDA’s Executive Group Sales and Business Development Director and MBDA Italy Managing Director, said “This latest achievement of the Aspide 2000 missile has confirmed its operating effectiveness and its design strength which has allowed us to renovate the system without any issues of note. Furthermore, this success also confirms that good system and technological choices were made from the very beginning. This exceptional result will give further impetus to the export activities involving this missile, which, as well as being deployed on the Skyguard/Amoun system, is also used on many other systems such as Skyguard El, the naval Albatros variant and the Spada AMI. Aspide 2000, the latest version of the Aspide missile, as well as being deployed in the Skyguard Amoun, is also used in the Spada 2000 Plus system”.

The Spada 2000 Plus system is a ground based air defence missile system designed to protect vital assets from different types of threat such as fighter and bomber aircraft, cruise missiles, helicopters and UAVs.

The Spada 2000 Plus is characterized by a high degree of modularity and flexibility, based on ISO standard modules.

Each system section comprises a Detection Center and up to four Firing Sections, each one comprising a Fire Control Center and two Missile Launchers each equipped with six missiles. The Spada 2000 Plus system is also capable of integrating V-SHORAD weapon systems and can operate autonomously or can be integrated within a higher level defence network or architecture.

http://www.defpro.com/news/details/5666/

 

[blain2]

Good News Indeed For Pakistan and PAF, SPADA will Replace PAF's Aging Crotale Missile System.

I do not think our Crotales are going anywhere. We just got the Crotales re-lifed last year (maybe 2007-2008 timeframe).

 

[shehbazi2001]

Not a shabby record at all for Spada 2000:

Spada 2000 Ground based air defence missile system. (Photo: MBDA)

10:17 GMT, February 19, 2009 The Aspide 2000 missile has set yet another exceptional record in its long career. During an air defence exercise that took place at the end of January 2009, the Amoun battery of Kuwait’s Air Defence Brigade carried out five Aspide 2000 missile launches against a series of air targets simulating different types of attack scenarios. All of the launches were successful and all five targets were destroyed, either by direct impact or as a result of the warhead exploding within a miss distance of well below one meter. The launches were performed in different weather conditions (day and night) and showed once again the absolute reliability of MBDA’s Aspide 2000 missile.

As a result of this exercise, the Aspide 2000 was able to establish an absolute record in terms of percentage launch success, establishing a success rate exceeding 97% from over 600 missiles launched around the world. With over 5,000 missiles having already been produced, Aspide is now experiencing a new dawn in its latest “2000” version.

Ing. Fabrizio Giulianini, MBDA’s Executive Group Sales and Business Development Director and MBDA Italy Managing Director, said “This latest achievement of the Aspide 2000 missile has confirmed its operating effectiveness and its design strength which has allowed us to renovate the system without any issues of note. Furthermore, this success also confirms that good system and technological choices were made from the very beginning. This exceptional result will give further impetus to the export activities involving this missile, which, as well as being deployed on the Skyguard/Amoun system, is also used on many other systems such as Skyguard El, the naval Albatros variant and the Spada AMI. Aspide 2000, the latest version of the Aspide missile, as well as being deployed in the Skyguard Amoun, is also used in the Spada 2000 Plus system”.

The Spada 2000 Plus system is a ground based air defence missile system designed to protect vital assets from different types of threat such as fighter and bomber aircraft, cruise missiles, helicopters and UAVs.

The Spada 2000 Plus is characterized by a high degree of modularity and flexibility, based on ISO standard modules.

Each system section comprises a Detection Center and up to four Firing Sections, each one comprising a Fire Control Center and two Missile Launchers each equipped with six missiles. The Spada 2000 Plus system is also capable of integrating V-SHORAD weapon systems and can operate autonomously or can be integrated within a higher level defence network or architecture.

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Blain can you please add whether targets were shot down in jamming conditions or whether the targets were maneuvering.............

A SAM battery's forte must be resistance to jamming and some countermeasures to anti-radiation weapons. From previous conflicts, we know that SAM batteries face SEAD/DEAD aircraft first or face Escort Jammers before the arrival of strike package.

Therefore if a SAM battery can function in jamming conditions AND can deal with Anti-radiation missiles, then it has some deterrence value. Now the difficulty lies in the fact that latest jamming technology is secret and we dont always know the latest jamming techniques but still its possible to test the SAM radars against known jamming techniques.

For the anti-radiation missiles that home on back-lobes and side-lobes of a radar, its not easy to escape the attack. If SPADA has some tricks to counter this threat, then it may become headache for an aggressor.

 

[Super Falcon]

very very good news

 

[metalfalcon]

I do not think our Crotales are going anywhere. We just got the Crotales re-lifed last year (maybe 2007-2008 timeframe).

Thanks for That Info as well. My Father used to Work In Air Defence in PAF (In his last days Before retirement), He has a Great affection for Crotales, He was Stationed at Kahuta by PAF.

Spada 2000 will Surly add More Punch in PAF's Lethal Arsenal.

 

[Munir]

The Crotales are indeed worthy to maintain. Their reaction time is just a few seconds. Since they are upgraded and part of the PAF for long time we can expect them to act together. And countering then would be a little more different if you have to jam two different systems.

 

[princefaisal]

What is the meaning of missile system complex? Do we have some sort of assembling or any manufacturing facility in this complex?

 

[ejaz007]

Indeed a very good news for PAF.

 

[MastanKhan]

Hi,

I believe that the crotales have been upgraded to 4000 standard.

 

[zavis2003]

really our systems should be needed toimprove