Pantsyr-S1 Anti-Aircraft Gun-Missile System - Design
The integrated missile and gun armament creates an uninterrupted engagement zone of 18 to 20 km in range and of up to 10 km in altitude. Immunity to jamming is attained via a common multimode and multispectral radar and optical control system operating in the decimetric, centimetric, millimetric and IR wave bands.
It can fire on the move, while the Tunguska system can deliver only gun fire on the move. The universal nature of target engagement includes a wide range of air targets: aircraft and helicopters before they fire their weapons, small-size guided missiles, as well as lightly armoured ground targets and manpower.
The automatic mode of battle performance of a separate combat vehicle or several combat vehicles acting as part of an air defence unit, improves time characteristics and reduces psychological and physiological loads on crew members. The great number of targets can be engaged in a short space of time due to the short reaction time, the high speed of the SAM flight and the availability of two independent guidance channels operating in a wide sector (90 x 90¡ in azimuth and elevation).
Autonomous operation capability is due to the fact that each combat vehicle contains equipment for detection, tracking and engagement of targets. The command system of SAM guidance ensures high effectiveness of the small agile missile.
The gun armament comprises two 2A38 twin-barrel automatic guns of the Tunguska air defence system capable of engaging air and ground targets up to 4 km in range and up to 3 km in altitude.
Depending on local conditions in the area of combat operations and variants of combat employment, the Pantsyr-S1 system can operate in one of the following modes.
Autonomous operation - Each combat vehicle operates independently and ensures the implementation of the full operating cycle: search, detection, identification, dangerous target selection, target designation, supplemental search, lockon, tracking and target engagement by missiles and guns.
Combined operation - The battery operates as a unit of six combat vehicles interconnected by telecoded communication. Each combat vehicle accomplishes the full cycle of battle performance against selected targets and sends information on the selected targets to the other battery's vehicles that exclude them from the list of the targets to be handled.
Battery command post control - Each of the six combat vehicles accomplishes all the stages of battle performance beginning from acquiring target designation data from the command post.
Leader-follower - The battery operates as a unit of six combat vehicles, one of which is assigned as a leader and the others as followers. The leading combat vehicle operates as a command post and also performs the functions of a combat vehicle as in the case of autonomous operations.
Each follow-on combat vehicle receives target designation data from the leader and operates under the control of the battery command post in all other respects.
At the V International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2019" for the first time, specialists and guests were openly presented with the latest development of domestic defense industry - the Pantsir-SM anti - aircraft missile and gun system based on the KamAZ-53958 Tornado multi-purpose chassis. At previous exhibitions, this system was demonstrated only in closed mode.
ZRPK received new, more long-range, high-speed and accurate missiles that can destroy a wide range of targets. Such missiles can hit modern aircraft, made, including technology "stealth", and miniature drones of various types. On the demonstrated machine, 12 containers with such smart weapons are installed.
