PARIS — The primary stage of integrating the MMP medium-range missile onto France’s new Jaguar armored reconnaissance and fight car was efficiently carried out final month when the weapon was fired from the retractable pod on the car’s turret and hit a set goal.
The firing happened April 14 however was solely simply introduced Might 11 by the missile’s producer MBDA and the car’s maker Nexter, one of many three members of the consortium with Arquus and Thales.
The mixing of the 33-pound, 140mm MMP onto the Jaguar was described by David Marquette, Nexter’s Jaguar undertaking supervisor, as “a serious milestone” for the hassle that’s being carried out in levels.
The MMP is being built-in into the Jaguar’s turret by Nexter, alongside the distant managed weapon station developed by Arquus, the Scorpion widespread car/electronics know-how developed by Thales, and the 40mm canon developed by CTAI, a 50-50 three way partnership between Nexter and BAE Techniques.
Throughout the demonstration, the Optrolead Paseo battlefield surveillance sight interfaced with the missile system providing real-time optronic acquisition by day and night time. Paseo, provided by Safran Electronics and Protection, is a stabilized panoramic sight that gives fire-on-the-move functionality. It will possibly detect a goal greater than 9 miles away, acknowledge it at 4.72 miles and determine it at 2.49 miles, which occurs to be the vary of the MMP.
Frédéric Michaud, head of the battlefield sector for gross sales and enterprise improvement at MBDA, mentioned “this firing marks an vital first step of the work carried out with Nexter to develop the Jaguar turret and combine the MMP right into a weapon system constructed on the most recent technological options. This two-missile turret configuration significantly expands the car’s firepower.”
The Jaguar, along with the Griffon multirole armored car and the Serval, will equip France’s cavalry regiments to switch the present AMX10 RC, ERC 90 and VAB HOT armored autos. Belgium has additionally purchased the Griffon and Jaguar.