It is the
eighth time the Rosoboronexport State Corporation
has taken part in the FIDAE International
Air & Space Fair. The Russian government
has ordered Rosoboronexport to sponsor a
common national exposition. Rosoboronexport
represents the intellectual potential and
production capabilities of the Russian defence
industry, comprising in excess of 700 enterprises.
The Rosoboronexport State Corporation exported
US $6.2 billion’s worth of Russian
arms in 2007.
Air
Defence Systems
Russian air
defence systems, displayed at FIDAE 2008,
comprise the cutting-edge Tor-M2E surface-to-air
missile (SAM) system, designed to counter
massive air strikes and destroy cruise missiles,
air-based missiles and guided bombs, precision-guided
munitions (PGM), and unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAV) at medium, low, and extremely low altitudes
in adverse air and jamming environment. The
Tor-M2E is a follow-on of the Tor-M1 SAM system.
It features new technical solutions, which
enable the system to simultaneously engage
more targets and expand its coverage. All
Tor-M2E components are mounted on the same
wheeled or tracked high-mobility vehicle.
The Tor-M2E is up to two- to three-fold superior
to the Tor-M1 SAM system, as far as its overall
efficiency is concerned.
The Russian Buk-M2E SAM system is a contemporary
medium-range air defence system, designed
to destroy any type of aerodynamic targets
throughout their operating ranges in an adverse
ECM environment and heavy enemy fire, as well
as to kill theatre ballistic missiles, air-based
missiles, and surface- and ground-based targets
with good radar signatures.
The Buk-M2E SAM system is the latest modification
of the Buk-family air defence systems. As
compared with the Buk-M1-2, the new version
features four-fold as many target channels,
an improved performance, and cutting-edge
workstations with LCD displays. At the request
of the customer, units, equipped with such
systems, and separate self-propelled launchers
may operate autonomously. Such a pattern allows
the number of simultaneously defended sites
to be increased regardless of the range between
them. The Buk-M2E is the world’s top
medium-range SAM system.
