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ASRAD-R (Advanced Short Range Air Defence System - RBS) is a vehicle-mountedshort-range air defense system, designed by a joint German-Swedish effort betweenRheinmetall andSaab Bofors Dynamics. The system is modular and can be mounted on almost any wheeled or tracked vehicle. It has, for instance, been demonstrated mounted on anM113armoured personnel carrier.
Normally the same vehicle carries both the main sensor and the main effector of the system. However, thanks to the systems modularity, it can also be delivered in a split configuration with one vehicle carrying the main sensor and several other vehicles carrying the missiles.
The main sensor is Saab's (formerly Ericsson Microwave System) HARDAESA air search3D radar with an instrumented range of 20 km or anInfra-red search and track, depending upon the customer's specifications. The effector is the latest version of the Saab Bofors DynamicsRBS 70surface-to-air missile, called Bolide. The missile is alaser guidancebeam riding short range missile equipped with a highly effective proximity fuze. It is supposed to be effective againstcruise missiles.
Each unit is equipped with four ready-to-fire missiles and an optical day and night sight to continually point the laser beam at the target. This means the system makes use ofACLOS type of guidance. Since the laser receiver is located at the back of the missile the system is practically immune to jamming but the method can be hampered by very low-visibility atmospheric conditions.
Finland placed the first order in August 2002. The Finnish systems are mounted onSisu Nasus (four units) and Mercedes-BenzUnimog 5000 L/38 4x4s (12 units). Each battery also has four RBS 70 MANPADS launchers with Bolide missiles.
Finland - designatedItO 2005. 16 vehicle mounted units, some MANPADS units,[citation needed] which equals four batteries (one each for the three rapid reaction forces, and one for the capital area, as a complement for other SAM systems).