Germany will switch Skyranger 35 to the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a Leopard 1 tank chassis, which successfully counters drones and low-flying targets. The system creates a 4-kilometer "kill-box" and integrates into the general air protection community.
Germany plans to switch the Skyranger 35 anti-aircraft system, mounted on a Leopard 1 tank chassis, to Ukraine. The system is constructed round a 35-mm Oerlikon cannon with programmable rounds that don’t "hit the drone" however somewhat unleash a cloud of a whole bunch of tungsten sub-elements in entrance of it. The car is able to "partaking" drones even whereas maneuvering or working in robust winds. Anatoliy Khrapchynskyi, deputy basic director of the corporate producing digital warfare tools and an aviation knowledgeable, spoke concerning the options of Skyranger 35, as reported by UNN.
"As a part of Rheinmetall's presentation at CMD 2025, Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger introduced that the primary Skyranger 35 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun on a Leopard 1 tank chassis will likely be delivered to Ukraine subsequent week," Rheinmetall reported on November 18.
Leopard 1 tank with put in dynamic safety in service with the fifth Heavy Mechanized Brigade
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In September, it was reported that the German concern Rheinmetall would increase army support to Ukraine by supplying Skyranger anti-drone methods to the Armed Forces of Ukraine this 12 months.
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Earlier, UNN reported intimately on the air protection methods in service with Ukraine. Particularly, Ukraine efficiently combines Western air protection methods, akin to NASAMS, MIM-104 Patriot, IRIS-T SLM/IRIS-T SLS, Crotale NG, and Soviet fashions – S-300, S-200, "Strela-10", ZSU-23-4 "Shilka", 2S6 "Tunguska", "Osa", "Tor".
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As already famous, the Skyranger system has two modifications – Skyranger 30 and Skyranger 35.
The Skyranger 30 system is predicated on the GTK Boxer armored personnel service, whereas the Skyranger 35 system will be primarily based on each the GTK Boxer and the Leopard 1 tank.
The GTK "Boxer" is a German-Dutch multi-purpose armored personnel service. The fight car was created by the ARTEC GmbH consortium, headquartered in Munich.
The car has a modular design and consists of a driver's compartment and a payload compartment. The modular design is among the important options of this car, because it permits the payload module to get replaced in half-hour even in a area workshop.
The armored personnel service was offered on the Eurosatory exhibition in 2010. The car is supplied with a Lance mannequin turret. The turret is supplied with an MK30-2/ABM cannon and a machine gun.
The crew consists of a driver and two troopers within the turret, and the touchdown power will be as much as six individuals.
Curiously, within the model for the German army, the Boxer APC is supplied with an electrical kettle and a area rest room.
Boxer APC with MK30-2/ABM cannon
Fight operation of Boxer APC and Puma IFV
As Anatoliy Khrapchynskyi instructed UNN, the Skyranger 35 system is probably the most trendy European response to the warfare of small targets.
Skyranger 35 system primarily based on Leopard 1 tank
The system is constructed round a 35-mm Oerlikon cannon with programmable rounds that don’t "hit the drone" however somewhat unleash a cloud of a whole bunch of tungsten sub-elements in entrance of it. For FPVs, "Lancets", "Shahed-107s" and low-flying guided missiles, which means that there is no such thing as a probability even when maneuvering or working in robust winds. Radars and a separate monitoring channel see small targets at distances the place the "Shilka" merely doesn’t detect them in opposition to the bottom. The optoelectronic module routinely tracks the goal, and the Leopard 1 supplies cross-country functionality and survivability
– says Khrapchynskyi.
ZSU-23-4M "Shilka"
Khrapchynskyi provides that the tactical position of Skyranger 35 is to "create a 4-kilometer 'kill-box' round a brigade, convoy, or infrastructure object."
This can be a separate echelon of short-range air protection that takes on what’s impractical to intercept with missiles, FPV swarms, low-flying "Shaheds", reconnaissance drones, gliding bombs within the closing part, and even MLRS/mines in C-RAM (Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar) mode. The system rapidly switches between modes, operates with out GPS, integrates into the final air protection community, and closes gaps that the Russians are attempting to use by altering ways with "drip" assaults, daytime approaches, and bypassing radar fields.
– notes the knowledgeable.
Based on him, the Skyranger 35 system "differs in philosophy" from the Skyranger 30 model.
The "Thirty" is a lightweight module for the Boxer with ABM ammunition and the power to combine short-range missiles. The Skyranger 35 is a heavy, full-fledged anti-aircraft missile and gun system (ZRGK – ed.) with higher projectile power and higher C-RAM potential. And a comparability with the "Tunguska" or "Shilka" is even incorrect, as Soviet autos are primarily based on mass fireplace and analog radars of the 70s-80s. The Skyranger 35 works in another way, not with a stream of metallic, however with managed detonation geometry, digital classification, and steady operation in opposition to targets that Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons (ZSU – ed.) merely don’t "see". That is already a distinct technology created for the drone warfare we’re at present residing in.
– summarized the knowledgeable.
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