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The first AA missiles were introduced in Finland in the late 1970s with the acquisition of ItO 79 Pechora area defence AA missiles for protecting the Helsinki area. This left a gap in the regional AA capacity, although a sufficient number of automatic AA guns capable of covering the remaining ranges were retained.
The state-of-the-art Crotale NG equipment acquired in the 1990s fills this gap admirably. It is capable of intercepting not only aircraft and helicopters but cruise missiles too.
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The state-of-the-art ItO 90 Crotale NG AA missile system is mounted on a Finnish Sisu armoured vehicle chassis.
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Point defence AA missile
Use
- protection of targets of national importance and of troops
- reinforcing AA systems of major operative formations
Properties (ItO 90, Crotale NG)
- mobile independent AA missile system
- range over 11 km
- altitude range over 6 km
- 8 missiles ready to fire
- speed 1,250 m/s (3.5 Mach)
- command steering
- radar-triggered fuse
- length 2.4 m
- weight 75 kg
- combat charge weight 13 kg
- firing control system
- surveillance radar, range about 20 km
- TV camera
- heat-sensitive camera
- infrared sensor
- vehicle location device
- Sisu armoured vehicle chassis
- total system weight 23 t
- crew: 4
- manufactured in France (missile system), USA (missile), Finland (vehicle chassis)
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