The Düsseldorf-based tech enterprise Rheinmetall has scored a big success in advertising and marketing its new Skyranger 30 air defence system as a part of the European Sky Defend Initiative: Hungary, a NATO and EU member nation, has awarded Rheinmetall a contract for the conceptual improvement of the Skyranger 30 turret for the longer term Lynx KF41 Cellular Air Defence Automobile. The contract has been signed on fifteenth December 2023 in Budapest.
For Rheinmetall, the event contract is value near €30 million. The customisation improvement of the Skyranger 30 turret for the Lynx tracked armoured automobile and the combination of extra effectors responds to Hungary’s want to deal with the present menace scenario, including a brand new member to the Lynx household within the course of.
The order highlights the Group’s function as the worldwide chief in short-range air defence – an modern pressure driving the continuing improvement of cutting-edge air defence methods. Rheinmetall’s Skyranger 30 is the best answer for modern situations that contain countering drone assaults and different aerial threats.
The Lynx Skyranger 30 shall be a pathbreaking air defence system based mostly on the tried- and-tested Lynx infantry combating automobile. Integrating the state-of-the-art Skyranger air defence system ends in an much more efficient and versatile air defence functionality. The system gives an optimum mixture of mobility, survivability, flexibility and precision, able to thwarting extremely difficult new threats within the short- and very-short area. A hybrid answer, its turret combines a high- efficiency 30mm computerized cannon, surface-to-air missiles and the accompanying sensor suite, all on a single platform. Furthermore, the system is suitable with quite a lot of fashionable guided missiles, such because the Mistral, Stinger and Chiron.
Armin Papperger, chairman of the Group’s govt board, factors out that “with the Skyranger 30, Rheinmetall is making an vital contribution to the safety of our clients and their capability to defend themselves. We’re dedicated to providing options that may stay greater than a match for steadily evolving threats. On this improvement contract, we’ll be setting the usual but once more on the planet of air defence know-how. The Lynx Skyranger 30 is a high performer, able to countering an enormous number of threats together with ballistic missiles and unmanned plane. We’re proud to have the ability to provide our clients worldwide a sophisticated answer that meets their safety wants so beautifully.”
A extremely certified workforce of Rheinmetall engineers and skilled technicians from totally different Rheinmetall entities will perform the event of the Lynx Skyranger 30. The Group has longstanding expertise in creating and integrating air defence methods and is decided to widen nonetheless additional its lead on this space. The event contract additionally means a rise in capabilities for Rheinmetall’s subsidiaries in Hungary.
This improvement venture types a part of the European Sky Defend Initiative, or ESSI, which seeks to considerably Europe’s air defence capabilities within the subsequent few years. The ESSI goals to guard Europe’s NATO member states extra successfully in opposition to aerial assault. To realize this rapidly, ESSI member nations plan to collectively procure, deploy and preserve the related {hardware}, together with radar methods, computerized cannon and surface-to-air guided missiles.
The Bundeswehr is keen to revive the German Military’s natural air defence functionality. Procurement of round twenty Skyranger 30 methods is at present into consideration, to be mounted on this case on the Boxer 8×8 wheeled armoured automobile.
Earlier, Denmark had already introduced its intention of shopping for round fifteen Skyranger 30 methods, to be built-in into a unique 8×8 wheeled armoured automobile.
