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South African Gripen flying service support grows
The South African Air Force has awarded Gripen International a further R123,818 [$17,469 - Ed.] contract for interim product support for the flying service's advanced light fighter aircraft. This is in addition to support-related expenditure on the fourth-generation fighter of R97.5 million between November 2009 and November last year.
SAAB, to whom business unit Gripen International reports, last month announced a 45 million Swedish crowns (roughly R45.1 million) contract to provide “on demand” services for the 17 months from November 1, 2010 to the end of March 2012. “On demand” services are typically maintenance repair and overhaul, engineering support services in Sweden or on-base, at Air Force Base Makhado in South Africa, SAAB said in a statement. It is not clear if the R123 818 contract forms part of the SAAB deal or not.
South Africa ordered 28 Saab Gripen C & D advanced light fighter aircraft in 1999 as part of a “strategic defence package”. The order was later trimmed to 26. The Gripen were acquired as a package with 24 BAE Systems Hawk Mk120 lead-in fighter trainers. In 2007 Treasury put the cost of the Gripen acquisition, Project Ukhozi, at R19.908 billion.
Although still not an operational system,the SAAF's growing fleet of SAAB Gripen fighters conducted about half the 51 aircraft intercepts conducted during the June/July soccer world cup. The SAAF deployed 11 of the available 15 Gripen during the month-long tournament as well as 12 of 24 BAE Systems Hawk lead-in fighter trainers.
Air Force director combat systems Brigadier General John Bayne, praised the availability of the SAAF's new fighter fleet during the soccer tournament at a Gripen briefing at the SAAB chalet at Africa Aerospace & Defence 2010 exhibition. The Gripen were allocated 276 flying hours and the Hawks 279. Bayne says the five two-seat Gripen D were 98% reliable and the six single-seat Gripen C 89%. The Hawk was 98% reliable. At any given time 8.95 of the 11 Gripen were available and 11.6 of the Hawk. Maintainability was 89% for Gripen and 92% for Hawk. Bayne observed that the figures for Gripen would have been higher had it been an operation system.
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Ven 11 Fév 2011 - 13:23
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SAAF Awards Gripen Technical Support Contract to CSIR
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa, has received a contract from the South African Air Force (SAAF) to assist the Gripen team with on-demand technical support. The deal for a consultation service for the identification and correction of problems with data communication between Gripen aircraft closes on 16 February 2011. As part of a "strategic defence package", South Africa ordered 28 Saab Gripen C and D advanced light fighter aircraft, later trimmed to 26. The Gripen were acquired as a package with 24 BAE Systems Hawk mk120 lead-in fighter trainers, reports defenceweb.co.za.
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Sam 12 Fév 2011 - 13:37
Written by Dean Wingrin Thursday, 10 February 2011 13:21
The South African Air Force is investigating the future use of the Agusta A109 light utility helicopter (LUH) it purchased as part of the 1999 Strategic Defence Package (SDP).
The A109 LUH was purchased to replace the elderly Eurocopter SA-316/SA-319 Alouette III helicopter which had been in service since 1962 in the light utility role. Delivery of the 30 A109 helicopters purchased from the Anglo-Italian AgustaWestland helicopter company under Project Flange commenced in 2005 and has been beset with difficulties and delays. An option for a further ten was not exercised.
The SAAF required the type to take pressure off its Denel Oryx medium utility fleet. The Air Force has long had the need for a platform more capable than the Alouette III but less expensive and more efficient than the Oryx for the bulk of taskings. The A109 was expected to fill that niche. The A109 was also expected to allow the SAAF to pass-on its Eurocopter BK-117 helicopter flet to the South African Police Service Air Wing.
At a press briefing at the Air Force Day Parade held at Swartkop airfield near Centurion on January 28, Lieutenant General Carlo Gagiano, Chief of the Air Force, said the SAAF is still holding on to their BK-117s and that they were looking to define a new role for the A109. “We have quite a large number of these helicopters (the A109) and indeed, we have to define a new role for them because they cannot really do the work of a BK 117,” Gagiono confirmed. “The BK 117s are doing a great job in the Eastern Cape,” he added.
According to the SAAF, typical missions for the A109 includes training, search and rescue, rope extraction & rappelling, trooping, medical evacuation (casevac), cargo transport, border patrol, peacekeeping, communications and urban operations.
Although the first five A109 aircraft were manufactured in Italy, the balance of the 25 helicopters was assembled by Denel Saab Aerostructures. By 2008 deliveries were four years late, leading to the imposition of a R90 million penalty, the only one imposed under the “arms deal”. It has been reported that offsets were tardy and the platform has failed to live up to expectation.
Although one of the stated uses of the new helicopter was for pilot training, the SAAF was experiencing a critical lack of qualified flying instructors soon after the initial aircraft were delivered. As a consequence, in mid-2006 the SAAF outsourced basic helicopter flying training to Starlight Aviation in Durban. At the time, it was rumoured that the A109, with its advanced avionics and equipment, was too complex to convert newly qualified pilots onto helicopters.
The Air Force announced in March 2007 that the A109 had been cleared for command-and-control, casevac, trooping and cargo-slinging duties. The helicopter is capable of being equipped with a search light, FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red), external hoist and a cargo-sling. However, operational reports suggest the type is, depending on one’s point of view, underpowered or alternatively too heavy with too low a payload to fully fulfil these tasks. The helicopter can neither carry operational loads in high heat conditions nor fly in strong wind. Other reports suggest that a fully-charged battery is required as the helicopter cannot be started manually, but the battery has a habit of going flat. Despite this, the crew love flying the A109.
It had always been the intention of the Air Force to replace the BK-117 helicopter, operated by 15 Squadron at the coast in Durban and Port Elizabeth, with the A109. In January 2008, it was decided to keep the BK-117 in service for a further year, as it had lower operating costs compared with the more advanced A109 LUH.
The UK journal AirForces Monthly noted in September 2008 that the A109 LUH should have been fully operational in both the landward and seaward roles by that January, allowing for the transfer of the BK 117 to the SA Police Service Air Wing. However, airframes fitted in a seaward configuration (with emergency water flotation gear) were then not available. The first aircraft in a seaward configuration (serial 4001) became available in May 2008 and underwent an Operational Test & Evaluation (OT&E) phase at 15 Squadron. Clearly, the OT&E did not find the A109 suitable for the seaward role either.
Gagino said that the matter of the retirement of the BK 117 had to be addressed soon. “If we phase the BK 117 out, as the plan is for this year, then we have to put more Oryx in the Eastern Cape because the A109 will not be able to do the work that the BK 117 is currently doing,” the Air Force chief continued.
Gagiono stressed it was not a mistake to purchase the helicopters – for R2.451 billion, but the Air Force just needed to find the right role for the A109. This could include command and control. A further observation role may be allocated to the A109 since the SANDF has once again taken over responsibility for border protection.
Three of the helicopters have been involved in serious accidents. In the first accident, three crew members were killed in May 2009 when their helicopter crashed into Woodstock Dam, near Bergville in KZN. A further two helicopters were damaged in November and December 2010, fortunately with no loss of live. These two airframes may be rebuilt in due course. The results of the investigation into the cause of the fatal crash has not been made public, while the investigation into the other two crashes is not yet complete. However, it is believed that there was no common cause between the three crashes.
As the cause of the most recent accident in December may have been as a result of mechanical failure, all the A109s were grounded, pending inspection. Gagiano has confirmed that while some of the aircraft are flying again, not all had been checked. In a reply to a Parliamentary question in January this year, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu said that 4% of the final associated logistic support for the A109 purchased as part of the SDP was still outstanding. This included the implementation of a few minor engineering changes.
Other South African companies involved in the project include Saab SA, Denel Optronics (now Carl Zeiss Optronics), Tellumat and Waymark.
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Lun 14 Fév 2011 - 15:43
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Saab Grintek Wins SAAF Maintenance and Support Services Contract
The South African Air Force (SAAF) has awarded Saab Grintek Defence a maintenance and support services contract for self protection systems (SPS) to be fitted to the SAAF fleet of Denel Oryx medium utility helicopter and Lockheed Martin C130B medium transport aircraft. The SPS, which is expected to be a more basic version of the integrated defensive aids suite (IDAS) based on the missile approach warning-300 (MAW-300) system, can improve the defensive and operational capabilities of aircraft and helicopters. The MAW-300 later developed into the multisensor warning system (MSWS), which evolved into the SAAB EDS IDAS and the compact-IDAS (CIDAS) systems. A full IDAS can detect multispectral threats and comprises radar warning receivers, laser illumination warning systems, ultra-violet-frequency missile approach warning (MAW) systems and pyrotechnical dispensers, reports defenceweb.co.za.
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Lun 14 Fév 2011 - 17:09
Ce qui est dommage c'est qu'on a pas de photos de l'armée de terre enfin presque a part les 4 ou 5 photos postés par Fremo a la page 2 ! On a que des photos de la navy et de l'air force !
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Ce qui est dommage c'est qu'on a pas de photos de l'armée de terre enfin presque a part les 4 ou 5 photos postés par Fremo a la page 2 ! On a que des photos de la navy et de l'air force !
très bien, comme tu y as pensé ... collectes quelques photos du matos de l'armée de terre, et postes les
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Ven 25 Mar 2011 - 13:45
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BAE Systems Enhances Capability of South Africa Hawk
Warton, United Kingdom – BAE Systems has completed work to upgrade the navigation and weapons system for the South African Air Force’s fleet of Hawk jet trainers, with work to fit the new system now underway. The software and hardware upgrade, jointly developed with long term South African partner Advanced Technologies and Engineering, enables the Hawk Mk120 to share simulated radar data across multiple platforms. For example the South African Hawk Mk120 can see the same data as the South African Air Force Gripen and South African Navy Corvette frigate whilst on a training sortie. The upgrade, known as Operational Capability 4, includes the introduction of software to simulate the use of infra-red and radar guided missiles. The upgrade also involves the replacement of the existing analogue video recording with a digital recording capability. This means greater flexibility in analysing the data post sortie, vastly improving the quality of the debrief process for both the aircrew and ground crew. Mike Swales, International Training Director for BAE Systems said: “Integrating these upgrades onto the South African Air Force’s Hawks will significantly enhance the training capability of the aircraft, ensuring the student pilots learn in a more realistic environment, significantly reducing the cost of training on expensive platforms. Additionally they are also better prepared for the challenge of flying front-line aircraft” The capability upgrade has commenced on eight aircraft based at Makhado Air Force Base, Limpopo Province, South Africa with the remainder of the Hawk Mk120 fleet due to be upgraded before the end of the year. BAE Systems delivered 24 Hawk Mk120 Lead In Fighter Trainers to South Africa where they are operated by the South African Air Force’s 85 Combat Flying School at Air Force Base Makhado. South Africa’s Hawks are used for training Gripen pilots and weapons officers. The Hawk aircraft have been configured so that their cockpits and systems closely resemble those on the Gripen advanced fighter. Hawk aircraft is in operation with 18 countries world wide and is recognised as the best trainer aircraft in its class. Source: BAE Systems Photo: SAAF
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Ven 1 Avr 2011 - 3:11
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est se que le SAAB gripen a la capacité BVR ??
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Ven 1 Avr 2011 - 3:16
oui il peut mettre en oeuvre des AIM-120 et bientôt le meteor
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Ven 1 Avr 2011 - 17:10
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Sam 2 Avr 2011 - 15:23
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SAAF finally takes delivery of fully operational Rooivalk helicopters
The first five fully operational Rooivalk helicopters were handed over to the South African Air Force (SAAF) by Denel Aviation on Friday morning. These fully operational aircraft are designated as the Rooivalk Mk 1. Previously, although the Rooivalks could fly, they were not truly operational and could not be deployed, for example, to support United Nations peacekeeping operations. “This is a historic moment for Denel and indeed the entire South African defence and advanced manufacturing industries,” affirmed Denel group CE Talib Sadik. “The Rooivalk is unique and a singular triumph for South African engineering and advanced manufacturing.” “Denel is exceptionally proud to have been involved in the development of this helicopter,” he asserted. “The Rooivalk programme has been a catalyst for the development of South Africa’s aerospace and advanced manufacturing industries. The spin-offs from the Rooivalk programme will continue far into the future.” He highlighted that the Rooivalk (Kestrel in English) had been an incubator for research and innovation, including pioneering use of composites, the development of avionics, weapons control systems and electro-optical sights. Development of the Rooivalk started with the start of the design phase in 1984 and the first prototype, known as the XDM, made its first flight on February 11, 1990. “The Rooivalk has been developed over the past quarter century,” said Denel Aviation CEO Mike Kgobe. “Denel Aviation is the design authority for the Rooivalk. We are exceptionally proud of our achievement.” “This is a great moment for the South African Air Force,” stated SAAF Chief Lieutenant-General Carlo Gagiano. He pointed out that, over the years, a number of modifications and upgrades had been made to the Rooivalk, partly to integrate new technologies and partly to adapt the aircraft to the changing requirements of the SAAF. “Our constructive relationship with Denel will not end at this point,” he assured. Denel Aviation, as the design authority, will remain responsible for the deeper maintenance of the aircraft and for repair and overhaul services. The company, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the State-owned Denel defence industrial group, will upgrade another six Rooivalks to Mk 1 standard. The Rooivalks, which are now formally designated as combat support helicopters by the SAAF, will be operated by 16 Squadron at Air Force Base Bloemspruit, near Bloemfontein in the Free State province. Currently, the Rooivalk Mk 1s are armed with a 20 mm cannon and unguided rockets. The helicopter can fire the Denel Dynamics Mokopa missile, but the SAAF has not yet acquired this weapon
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Dim 3 Avr 2011 - 19:49
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South African Hawk support work tops R279 million
20:17 GMT, April 1, 2011 The South African Air Force (SAAF) has placed orders worth over R279 million [$41.6 million; €29.3 million - Ed.] with BAE Systems, Advanced Technologies & Engineering (ATE), Denel Aviation and others since 2007 to support its fleet of 24 BAE Systems Hawk Mk120 lead-in fighter trainers delivered between 2006 and 2008.
The latest order, placed last week, was with Rolls Royce PLC for the “repair of a Hawk aircraft engine for the SAAF”. The value was R5 million, taking the known global spend on the Hawk to R279 053 752.21.
Part of the 1999 Strategic Defence Package, the first two aircraft were delivered to the SAAF on May 24, 2006 and the last by August 2008. National Treasury that year said the 24 aircraft acquired as Project Winchester had cost R7.2 billion.
With the exception of Hawk SA 250, the flight test and development aircraft, which was built in the United Kingdom, all of its other Hawks were assembled at Denel’s aircraft factory at Johannesburg International Airport in Kempton Park east of Johannesburg. Under a reciprocal industrial participation agreement, Denel for a while became the exclusive manufacturer of tailplanes, airbrakes and flaps for the Hawk programme, with these components already being incorporated onto aircraft operated by or being built for South Africa, India, Bahrain and the UK’s Royal Air Force.
The Hawk Mk120 was selected over the Czech Aero Vodochody L39/59/139, the German/US Dasa/Boeing Ranger 2000, the Italian Aermacchi MB339 and the Russian MAPO MiG-AT and Russo-Italian Aermacchi/Yakovlev YAK130. The basic design dates to 1968 when the then-Hawker-Siddeley aircraft company was asked to propose a successor to the Folland Gnat. The design, innovative for its time, was named the Hawk in 1973 and flew in 1974. It entered RAF service in 1976. The Hawk Mk120 LIFT and other “second generation” Hawks (Mks 127 and 128) only have 10% commonality with the original and feature new wings, forward and centre fuselage, fin and tailplane. The new variants are also said to have four times the fatigue life of the original.
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Sujet: Re: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Mer 20 Avr 2011 - 12:55
The South African Navy (SAN) has ordered what appears to be a R42 million resupply of Umkhonto surface-to-air missiles (SAM) for its Valour-class frigates. The order, for R41 986 000, was placed last week Thursday.
South Africa in November 2005 joined a handful of nations to have fielded a functional operational anti-missile air defence systems with the successful firing of the Umkhonto-IR from aboard the Valour-class frigate SAS Amatola. Since then the SA Navy has regularly fired the 125kg, 12km-range weapon that carries a 23kg warhead, most recently this year during Exercise Good Hope IV, a joint multinational undertaking with German, where the missile was also successfully fired against a surface target. “We heard it went very well,” Denel Dynamics CE Jan Wessels told defenceWeb in April last year. “The system has now been in service with the Navy for three years and all the feedback we get is very positive, it is really performing as advertised and more.”
Each of the four German-built stealth warships is fitted with a Denel Dynamics-designed 16-cell vertical launch system (VLS) for the Umkhonto (Zulu: Spear) that can be increased to 32. The first naval firing of the weapon took place on November 23, 2005 when the SAS Amatola fired an Umkhonto at a high-speed Skua target drone off Cape Agulhas. It fired a second a week later. Both were fired with telemetry warheads to tell developers at Denel's nearby Overberg Test Range how the missiles were performing. Had real warheads been fitted, both targets would have been destroyed according to the data read-outs. "Both hits were within the specifications. The ranges achieved were even better than those specified," then-Sitron project director Rear Admiral (JG) Johnny Kamerman said in a media conference in 2006. The admiral added the development of the system had begun in 1993. South Africa decided to develop its own system even after sa
nctions was lifted because high-end systems such as the US Aegis were unaffordable -- "we can't afford the launchers, let alone the missiles," Kamerman explained -- and low-end systems like shoulder-launched missiles were "a waste of time".
Land-based testing of the original Mark I ended in July 2005 when the system was adjudged shore-qualified. The testing involved telemetry intercepts of a Skua target drone in various profiles, including low-level, head on and in evasive manoeuvres. The tests culminated in a Skua being destroyed with a “standard warhead”, Kamerman said.
Machiel Oberholzer, Executive Manager Air Defence at Denel Dynamics, says the 125kg, 12km range missile is now proven as a surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile in high clutter naval environments including littoral water and land warfare scenarios. “Umkhonto can now comfortably be applied to Ground Based Air Defence Systems (GBADS),” he said just before last September's African Aerospace & Defence (AAD) exhibition in Cape Town, a reference to the SA Army's Project Protector, a land-based version of the missile.
Wessels said the land variant will twin the Mk II with a containerised launcher is developed in close consultation with with the SA Army Air Defence Artillery. This will integrate with a command centre and a new three dimensional Reutech Radar Systems RSR 320 also currently under development. Wessels noted that several potential “export customers are already looking impatiently at the system.” He says the naval system “is getting a very good name” in the mlitary community, further exciting interest in the system’s landwards application.
If last week's order is for missiles, it is likely to be the Mark II version of the weapon featuring much enhanced “clutter” performance proven last year during live firing trials with the Finnish Navy that operates the short-range air defence system (SHORADS) aboard four Hamina class missile boats and two Hämeenmaa class minelayers.
The Finnish Navy launched the Mark II missiles during two successful test firings at the Lohtaja test range in May last year. Finnish Navy minelayer Uusimaa and other participating vessels made their way to the test range through the winter ice and after taking up their respective positions, and after system and safety checks were completed, a Banshee target drone was deployed from land. “For the first firing this extremely small target was tracked by the ship sensor systems,” Denel said in a statement at the time. “After a white run confirmed all systems were working, Umkhonto promptly destroyed the target with a direct hit during the red run. The second firing utilised a different ship sensor to track the target. Again Umkhonto achieved a direct hit confirming the unique capability of this missile.”
The Dynamics CE added the Mark II has now met all specifications and is in production for Finland. They will also be supplied to the SA Navy once the latter has placed an order for replacement missiles. “They're using their stocks for trials and need to replenish... It will be the Mk II, we'll stop doing the Mk I, there's no point going back to it,”he said in August last year. “This is will be invisible to the SA Navy client from an integration viewpoint and is an example where the SA Department of Defence (DoD) gets the benefit without having to invest directly, it is a benefit gained through export. Denel Dynamics’ investment to secure the export opportunity ultimately funded this Mk II, after the SA Navy initial investment funded the Umkhonto MkI development.”
In May 2008 Oberholzer told defenceWeb the Umkhonto development path included an extended range (ER) IR variant as well as an all-weather radar-guided version and an ER version of that. Oberholzer said an extended-range infrared version is planned and will range up to 22km. The radar version, dubbed the AWSAM – all weather surface to air missile – would have a 20km range, while an extended range version fitted with a booster rocket (AWSAM-E) – would hit out up to 30km – which placed it in the medium-range capability. He added the advantage of such a family of missiles was that "you can have a cocktail of missiles in your launchers so you can engage with the most appropriate one to the threat. Infrared missiles are cheaper than radar and you don't want to use an expensive missile to shoot down an easy target."
Wessels has said the company is looking for funding partners for the advanced Umkhonto future configurations. “It will ideally be a programme like A-Darter”, the R1 billion joint venture 5th generation IR short-range air-to-air missile being developed with Brazil. But he also questions the notion that Umkhonto IR is just a good-weather system. “If you can just highlight that's not the case. The fact that the SA and Finnish navies have selected Umkhonto after in-depth studies – despite typical naval weather conditions – says it all. How this missile works is you have an advanced 3D radar on the ship or launch point and that keeps tracking the target after the missile is fired and via datalink guides the missile to within the last kilometre or so.
“Only then does the IR seeker become active. The more accurate the 3D radar is, the more you can do and the better the performance as an all-weather system. The IR seeker is just used for the last pinpoint accuracy. The better the radar, the better the missile.” It is therefore no longer clear that the all-weather variant will be radar guided as was provided for in earlier thinking.
Umkhonto surface-to-air missiles systems for the SA Navy ETMG/2010/378 13 Apr 2011 R41 986 000,00 Denel (Pty) Ltd t/a Denel Aerospace
Maintenance and support services of the Umkhonto Surface-to-Air missile system for the SA Navy ETMG/2009/516 30 Sep 2010 R6 885 092,00 Denel (Pty) Ltd t/a Denel Dynamics
Umkhonto-IR missile electromagnetic compatibility test with SAN-PC ETMG/2006/164 29 Mar 2007 R344 722,50 Denel (Pty) Ltd t/a Denel Aerospace
Pic: An Umkhonto MkI firing from the SAS Amatola
nctions was lifted because high-end systems such as the US Aegis were unaffordable -- "we can't afford the launchers, let alone the missiles," Kamerman explained -- and low-end systems like shoulder-launched missiles were "a waste of time".
Land-based testing of the original Mark I ended in July 2005 when the system was adjudged shore-qualified. The testing involved telemetry intercepts of a Skua target drone in various profiles, including low-level, head on and in evasive manoeuvres. The tests culminated in a Skua being destroyed with a “standard warhead”, Kamerman said.
Machiel Oberholzer, Executive Manager Air Defence at Denel Dynamics, says the 125kg, 12km range missile is now proven as a surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile in high clutter naval environments including littoral water and land warfare scenarios. “Umkhonto can now comfortably be applied to Ground Based Air Defence Systems (GBADS),” he said just before last September's African Aerospace & Defence (AAD) exhibition in Cape Town, a reference to the SA Army's Project Protector, a land-based version of the missile.
Wessels said the land variant will twin the Mk II with a containerised launcher is developed in close consultation with with the SA Army Air Defence Artillery. This will integrate with a command centre and a new three dimensional Reutech Radar Systems RSR 320 also currently under development. Wessels noted that several potential “export customers are already looking impatiently at the system.” He says the naval system “is getting a very good name” in the mlitary community, further exciting interest in the system’s landwards application.
If last week's order is for missiles, it is likely to be the Mark II version of the weapon featuring much enhanced “clutter” performance proven last year during live firing trials with the Finnish Navy that operates the short-range air defence system (SHORADS) aboard four Hamina class missile boats and two Hämeenmaa class minelayers.
The Finnish Navy launched the Mark II missiles during two successful test firings at the Lohtaja test range in May last year. Finnish Navy minelayer Uusimaa and other participating vessels made their way to the test range through the winter ice and after taking up their respective positions, and after system and safety checks were completed, a Banshee target drone was deployed from land. “For the first firing this extremely small target was tracked by the ship sensor systems,” Denel said in a statement at the time. “After a white run confirmed all systems were working, Umkhonto promptly destroyed the target with a direct hit during the red run. The second firing utilised a different ship sensor to track the target. Again Umkhonto achieved a direct hit confirming the unique capability of this missile.”
The Dynamics CE added the Mark II has now met all specifications and is in production for Finland. They will also be supplied to the SA Navy once the latter has placed an order for replacement missiles. “They're using their stocks for trials and need to replenish... It will be the Mk II, we'll stop doing the Mk I, there's no point going back to it,”he said in August last year. “This is will be invisible to the SA Navy client from an integration viewpoint and is an example where the SA Department of Defence (DoD) gets the benefit without having to invest directly, it is a benefit gained through export. Denel Dynamics’ investment to secure the export opportunity ultimately funded this Mk II, after the SA Navy initial investment funded the Umkhonto MkI development.”
In May 2008 Oberholzer told defenceWeb the Umkhonto development path included an extended range (ER) IR variant as well as an all-weather radar-guided version and an ER version of that. Oberholzer said an extended-range infrared version is planned and will range up to 22km. The radar version, dubbed the AWSAM – all weather surface to air missile – would have a 20km range, while an extended range version fitted with a booster rocket (AWSAM-E) – would hit out up to 30km – which placed it in the medium-range capability. He added the advantage of such a family of missiles was that "you can have a cocktail of missiles in your launchers so you can engage with the most appropriate one to the threat. Infrared missiles are cheaper than radar and you don't want to use an expensive missile to shoot down an easy target."
Wessels has said the company is looking for funding partners for the advanced Umkhonto future configurations. “It will ideally be a programme like A-Darter”, the R1 billion joint venture 5th generation IR short-range air-to-air missile being developed with Brazil. But he also questions the notion that Umkhonto IR is just a good-weather system. “If you can just highlight that's not the case. The fact that the SA and Finnish navies have selected Umkhonto after in-depth studies – despite typical naval weather conditions – says it all. How this missile works is you have an advanced 3D radar on the ship or launch point and that keeps tracking the target after the missile is fired and via datalink guides the missile to within the last kilometre or so.
“Only then does the IR seeker become active. The more accurate the 3D radar is, the more you can do and the better the performance as an all-weather system. The IR seeker is just used for the last pinpoint accuracy. The better the radar, the better the missile.” It is therefore no longer clear that the all-weather variant will be radar guided as was provided for in earlier thinking.
Umkhonto surface-to-air missiles systems for the SA Navy ETMG/2010/378 13 Apr 2011 R41 986 000,00 Denel (Pty) Ltd t/a Denel Aerospace
Maintenance and support services of the Umkhonto Surface-to-Air missile system for the SA Navy ETMG/2009/516 30 Sep 2010 R6 885 092,00 Denel (Pty) Ltd t/a Denel Dynamics
Umkhonto-IR missile electromagnetic compatibility test with SAN-PC ETMG/2006/164 29 Mar 2007 R344 722,50 Denel (Pty) Ltd t/a Denel Aerospace
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selon un communiqué de Bae systems, les Hawk MK 120 de la SAAF bénéficient d'une amélioration logicielle(Operationel Capability 4) leur permettant de partager des données tactiques avec les chasseurs JAS 39 grippen C/D. pour l'heure, cette modernisation ne concerne que 8 appareils de la 85 combat flying school stationnés sur la base de Makhado. 16 autres devrainet en profiter s'ici la fin de 2011 source Air Fan
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BAE Systems Launches New Mine Protected Vehicle[b]
The BAE Systems business in South Africa has developed a purpose built RG35 RPU vehicle that delivers the crucial balance between firepower, proven survivability and tactical mobility troops currently need and will require in the future.
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The RG35 RPU is a modern, yet ruggedly dependable tactical 4X4 wheeled vehicle that is truly purpose built for multiple missions. Not only can the reconnaissance variant be equipped with light and medium turrets, as well as direct and indirect-fire weapons, it can power its way through the toughest terrain, taking troops to wherever the mission is. The vehicle can easily be modified a number of ways to transport cargo, conduct routine patrols, or be outfitted with cameras and other electronics for surveillance missions.
“No matter the mission, ensuring that troops make it to and from their home base safely is paramount,” said Chris Chambers, Vice President and General Manager of BAE Systems’ Tactical Wheeled Vehicles business. “With the RG35 RPU, we’ve developed a unique armour protected capsule, integrating decades of expertise and experience that we call the ‘crew citadel.’ It is designed to shield troops inside the vehicle from mine blasts, road side bombs and gunfire while ensuring they can fulfill their missions effectively.”
The RG35 is an open architecture fit for many applications and is currently being adapted to suit the Canadian Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicle (TAPV) program. As the business moves forward submitting its formal proposal with the proven hardware in response to the TAPV RFP, the team has coined the tagline “mission complete” to succinctly and simply describe the RG35 RPU’s value proposition.
“What’s mission complete? It’s delivering true value to the customer, throughout its life: providing troops with enhanced crew protection; delivering the tactical mobility required across extreme terrain and multiple missions and, specifically for the TAPV program, built and supported in Canada, for Canada. That’s mission complete, and that’s the RG35 RPU,” added Chambers.
The RG35 RPU is a 4X4 mine protected multi-mission tactical wheeled vehicle. It measures approximately 5.2 meters in length, 2.6 meters in width, and 2.5 meters in height, with a ground clearance of 414 millimeters. The RG35 RGU’s gross vehicle mass is 21,000kg and seats driver plus 9 crew members.
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South African Army stocks up on Milan 3 The South African Army has ordered an undisclosed further number of Milan antitank guided missile (ATGM) for use by the Special Forces as well as airborne and motorised infantry. The R57 990 630.80 [$8.22 million - Ed.] purchase order was awarded to Euromissile [sic] last week. It takes the known value of Project Kingfisher – according to the Armscor Bulletin System (ABS) – to R271 076 483.37.
The Kingfisher contract was placed on December 20, 2006, and initially escaped media notice. South Africa was the global launch customer of the new generation Milan ADT (Advanced Digital Technology) launcher and Milan ER (extended range) missile. The deal included Fulcrum Defence Systems (FDS), an EADS and MBDA local partner, upgrading about 30 existing Milan firing posts to ADT standard. They will also provide training, four simulators and logistic support. MBDA, the European missile-maker that now incorporates Euromissile, will provide the munitions. “We estimate our contribution will be worth about R30 million, which is a good investment in the local industry,” CE André Wolmarans told defenceWeb in 2007.
MBDA said at the time the digital technologies incorporated in the ADT firing post had notably enhanced the system’s ability to detect, reconnoitre and identify targets. The upgrade entailed replacing the control box as well as the electronics of the guidance unit and integrating new software and optics. The cards bearing the software were manufactured in South Africa and an initial batch of 33 sets was in manufacture at FDS by 2007.
In March 2009 the military ordered a further 13 Milan ADT firing posts and four simulators under a contract worth €10.7 million (about R129.3 million at then exchange rates, but R81.5 million on the ABS.
The 3000m range Milan ER comes with jam-proof wire guidance, night sight and a tandem charge. Optimised for pulverising tanks, the warhead is rated as “multi-target.” A MBDA official explained to the author in 2004 than an analysis of missiles expended in the Falklands in 1982 – and confirmed by the 2003 Iraq war – found more than 70 percent expended on targets other than tanks, mostly bunkers and buildings. “You may say a Milan is too expensive to use against a machine gun, and on a cost analysis it is. But what is he cost of a human life? How many must die in assaulting that machine gun position?”
The competition for Kingfisher pitted MBDA and Saab Bofors Dynamics, the latter offering SA the BILL 2 (Bofors Infantry Light & Lethal). Other competitors included Denel who at one stage appeared hopeful that a four-round pedestal-launched version of their Mokopa would do the job. Also interested in the project was Russia and India. Russia was offering the 4000-metre range Konkurs, the latest version of what NATO officially used to call the AT4 Spigot system. (Unoffi cially, they call it the “Milanski” believing it to be a reverse-engineered copy of the European original.) Combining the two was India, who customised the Konkurs’ launcher to fire both the Russian and the European missile. MBDA was selected as the preferred supplier in September 2006.
Wolmarans added in 2007 that his company has also been contracted by MBDA to form a service hub for Africa. “They are doing a total knowledge transfer to Fulcrum regarding the firing posts. There are currently 1600 posts in use on the continent we can look at maintaining and upgrading. The possibility of upgrading firing posts for customers in the rest of the world is not excluded,” he adds. “A number of countries using the Milan lack a service centre and we are looking at filling that gap.”
MBDA is jointly owned by BAE Systems (37.5%), EADS (37.5%) and Italy's Finmeccanica (25%).
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Airbus Military Likely to Bid for SAAF Project Saucepan
Airbus Military is likely to propose its aircraft range for the South African Air Force's (SAAF) Project Saucepan requirement for a new maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft. Airbus Military CE Domingo Ureña said: "I think we have the best product in the world and I believe we could win the programme if we are given the chance to compete." Project Saucepan is aimed to replace SAAF's 68-year-old Douglas C47 Dakota aircraft, which is currently used for maritime surveillance. The SAAF received its first C47s in 1943 and were deployed into service with 35 Squadron, based in Cape Town, to perform medium transport as well as maritime patrol duties, according to Defenceweb
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The South African Air Force is investigating the future use of the Agusta A109 light utility helicopter (LUH) it purchased as part of the 1999 Strategic Defence Package (SDP).
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