This article is about the Swiss SHORAD system. For the North American air defence exercises, see Operation Skyshield. For the Israeli jammer, see Skyshield (jammer).
A pair of BAE Hawk 209 flying over Skyshield revolver gun Mark 2 with Fire Control Unit in the background at Supadio AFBThe complete Skyshield air-defence array with a SAM module in the back right
Skyshield air-defence system is a modular, light weight, short range air defense (SHORAD) system developed by the Swiss corporation Oerlikon Contraves (now a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany). The successor to the Skyguard defense system, Skyshield is intended to rapidly acquire and destroy threatening aircraft and missiles, as well as to fulfill a C-RAM role.[1]
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Skyshield air-defence system is a modular, light weight, short range air defense (SHORAD) system developed by the Swiss corporation Oerlikon Contraves...
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG (formerly Oerlikon). A mobile version of the Skyshield air defense system, it is based on a turret equipped with a 35 mm revolver...
Operation Sky Shield, properly Exercise Sky Shield, was a series of three large-scale military exercises conducted in the United States and Canada in 1960...
Saragih, Rojes (14 July 2017). "Paskhas Uji Rudal Chiron dan Oerlikon Skyshield". JakartaGreater (in Indonesian). Retrieved 25 July 2019. Pusat Kelaikan...
within very close range. The system itself is based on Oerlikon Contraves' Skyshield air defence gun system. A MANTIS system consists of six 35 mm automatic...
Oerlikon Weapon Control Module Ground Based Air Defence Unit: Oerlikon Skyshield Mobile Air Defence: Oerlikon Skyranger 30 and Skyranger 35 Oerlikon GDF...
Sky Shield is an advanced airborne electronic warfare system for fighter jets developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems of Israel. The electronic warfare...
as a counter-measure. In November 2014, under the Israeli government's SkyShield programme, Elbit's Commercial Multi-Spectral Infrared Countermeasures...
were sold for $500 000) + 48 modified GDF-005 units. Upgrading to the Skyshield system, GDF-006 AHEAD and GDF-007 AHEAD standard by 2017. Some 169 Oerlikon...
GDF-002 GDF-005 150 Upgraded by Rheinmetall AG in 2017 to use Oerlikon Skyshield fire control systems and Ahead airburst ammunition. Zumlac Twin 23mm anti...
United Kingdom. Exercise Red Epoch (1959) Exercise Fallex (1960) Operation Skyshield (1960–1962) - Held in US and Canada by NORAD and CONAD to test defenses...
State owned Denel, a 49% shareholder. The contract will see Oerlikon Skyshield fire control systems being supplied. A number of these guns will be retrofitted...
unplanned closure in the U.S.; military exercises known as Operation Skyshield had temporarily closed the airspace in the early 1960s. Domestic planes...
and the former McCoy AFB, Florida. Vulcans also took part Operation Skyshield exercises in 1960, 1961, and 1962, in which NORAD defences were tested...
truck-mounted anti-air defense medium/long range surface-to-air missile launchers Skyshield fixed or truck-mounted mobile short range anti-aircraft guns for defense...
Shengong Air Defense System Type 90 twin 35mm anti-aircraft gun Oerlikon Skyshield 35mm air defense system M1939 61-K 37mm automatic anti-aircraft gun Bofors...
become RSRE Malvern) was demonstrated by the V-force during the Operation Skyshield exercises and readiness through the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early...
field gun SLAM Pampero MRL Argentina 105 mm 16 tube SP rocket launcher Skyshield Switzerland 35 mm twin anti-aircraft gun Skysweeper United States 75 mm...
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