Patriot TMD
Specifications |
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| PAC- 1 | PAC- 2 | PAC- 3 | |
| MIM-104A | MIM-104C | PAC- 3 | |
| Type | Land-mobile, surface-
to-air guided weapon system |
Single-stage,
low-to-high-altitude |
Single-stage, short-range, low-to high-altitude |
| Launcher | four-round
Mobile trainable semi-trailer |
eight-round
Mobile trainable semi-trailer |
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| Manufacturer | Raytheon | Raytheon (Prime contractor), Lockheed, Siemens, Mitsubishi. | Lockheed Martin Vought Systems |
| Status | Not in production | In production | In production |
| Length | 5.3m | 5.18m | 5.2m |
| Diameter | 41cm | 41cm | 25cm |
| Wingspan | 92cm | 50cm | |
| Fins | four delta shaped fins | ||
| Launch Weight | 914 kg | 900kg | 312kg |
| Propulsion | Single-stage solid
propellant rocket motor |
Single-stage solid
propellant rocket motor |
Single-stage solid
propellant rocket motor with special attitude-control mechanism for in-flight maneuvering |
| Guidance | Command guidance and semi-active homing, track-via-missile (TVM) | Command guidance with TVM and semi-active homing | Inertial/Active
millimeter-wave radar terminal homing |
| Warhead | HE
single 90 kg |
91kg HE blast/
fragmentation with proximity fuze |
hit-to-kill +
lethality enhancer 73 kg HE blast/fragmentation with proximity fuze] |
| Max speed | Supersonic
(in excess of Mach 3) |
Mach 5 | Mach 5 |
| Time of flight |
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| Min altitude | 60 meters | ||
| Max attitude | NA | 24 km | 10-15 km |
| Min range | NA | 3 km | -- |
| Max range - anti-air | 70 km | 160 km | 15 km |
| Max range - anti-missile | 15-45 km | ||
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