In 2022, work will be completed on a new version of the Pantsir-SM-SV air defense cannon-missile system for the Ground Forces and Airborne Forces. It will have a tracked chassis and an enlarged kill zone.
- The complex will use two types of anti-aircraft missiles, - the commander of the military air defense of the Russian armed forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov, told Krasnaya Zvezda.
The General spoke about two more new anti-aircraft systems for the Ground Forces, whose development will be completed in 2022. This is an anti-aircraft missile system "Birdman" with two types of missiles. One will be guided by a laser beam, the other by the thermal radiation of the target. And a combat vehicle for the Typhoon-Air Defense anti-aircraft gunners squad. It is supposed to be armed with both the existing Igla, Igla-S and Willow MANPADS, as well as a new one being created as part of the Metka development work.
- The rocket of the new complex is equipped with an optoelectronic homing head that has no analogues in the world. It ensures the defeat of the target, despite all the existing and only being developed optical interference," Leonov said.
Anton Valagin
