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Russia Upgrading Bal Mobile Coastal Defense System with X-35U Missiles and UAV for Targeting

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Naval Forces News - Russia
 
 
 
Russia Upgrading Bal Mobile Coastal Defense System with X-35U Missiles and UAV for Targeting
 
The work to integrate modernized anti-ship X-35U (Kh-35U) missile into the mobile coastal defense complex 3K60 Bal is ongoing, Director General and Designer General of Morinformsistema-Agat Company Georgy Antsev told TASS. He also said that a drone designed by Radar-mms research and production enterprise is planned to be used for targeting of the mobile coastal defense complex 3K60 Bal.
     
The work to integrate modernized anti-ship X-35U (Kh-35U) missile into the mobile coastal defense complex 3K60 Bal is ongoing, Director General and Designer General of Morinformsistema-Agat Company Georgy Antsev told TASS. He also said that a drone designed by Radar-mms research and production enterprise is planned to be used for targeting of the mobile coastal defense complex 3K60 Bal.
Kh-35UE (also known as AS-X-20 Harpoonsky) Anti-ship missile in its surface launched export variant (launched from BAL-E mobile coastal missile system export variant).
     
"The work continues. It depends not only on us but also on the missile designer - Tactical Missile Armament Corporation. The use of the missile in the coastal complex has been announced. The question is when exactly it will be armed with it," he said.

Talks are underway to supply the 3K60 Bal complexes with integrated X-35UE missiles to foreign customers. Antsev said the Russian armed forces can receive the new X-35U missile in 2016-2017.

The anti-ship X-35U missile was initially created for aircraft to fight amphibious assault ships and transport vessels in convoys and solo navigation. The firing range varies from seven to 260 kilometers and the flight speed is 0.8-0.85M. Maximum target detection and lock-on distance by active-passive self-homer of the missile is 50 kilometers. The missile is armed with high-explosive fragmenting warhead with a weight of 150 kilograms. The launch weight of X-35U missile from a mobile coastal defense complex is 650 kilograms.
     
The work to integrate modernized anti-ship X-35U (Kh-35U) missile into the mobile coastal defense complex 3K60 Bal is ongoing, Director General and Designer General of Morinformsistema-Agat Company Georgy Antsev told TASS. He also said that a drone designed by Radar-mms research and production enterprise is planned to be used for targeting of the mobile coastal defense complex 3K60 Bal.
Radar-mms GSV-500 VTOL UAV at IMDS 2013
     
"The drone has successfully passed a series of test trials so far. It can fly up to three hours and engage in optical range reconnaissance check and targeting. As far as I know, Radar-mms is also working to equip the drone with small-size radar that will considerably increase its searching capabilities," he said.

Antsev specified test trials of the drone with onboard radar will begin in 2017. If successful, the craft will be used as a targeting device for the Bal complex. Besides, Radar-mms is designing a 500-kg drone which can be used for targeting missile complexes at a distance of up to 300 kilometers, Antsev said.

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