Pantsyr-S1 Anti-Aircraft Gun-Missile System - Sales
As of mid-2007 Russia had signed Pantsyr S1 sales contracts with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Jordan, and Syria, and was in talks with Algeria on the deliveries of this highly sought-after weapons system. "We have concluded $2.6 billion worth of contracts for the delivery of this system," Russia's KBP Instrument Design Bureau, which manufactures the system, said in 2006. The United Arab Emirates ordered 50 Pantsyr-S1 systems in May 2000, half to be mounted on tracked GM-352M1E vehicles from Minskiy Traktorniy Zavod of Belarus and half on wheeled chassis. The first batch of was delivered in November 2004.
On 23 May 2007 a first deputy prime minister denied that Russia had approved the sale of its Pantsyr-S1 mobile air defense system from Syria to Iran. "We have received no requests from Syria for supplies to Iran, not a single bullet," Sergei Ivanov said at a news conference in Moscow. "Russia engages in military-technical cooperation with all states that strictly abide by international law... For any arms that Russia sells to its foreign partners, contracts are signed only after the receipt of a certificate from the end user. These weapons cannot then be re-exported and supplied to third countries without the permission of the seller, in this case the Russian Federation." Media earlier reported that Damascus had agreed to sell some of the Pantsyr short-range air defense missile-gun systems it is buying from Russia to Tehran.
An upgraded version of the Pantsir-S short-range air defense system will enter service with the Russian armed forces by the end of 2014, a senior air force official said on 23 April 2014. "A program to modernize serial Pantsir-S systems, including by adopting new missiles, is currently under way. We expect them to enter service by the end of this year,' deputy commander of the Russian Air Force's Anti-Aircraft Missile Troops, Col. Yuri Muravkin, said at the Ashuluk training grounds in southern Russia. The new system will feature better electronics and tracking systems and will be equipped with upgraded missiles, increasing its maximum range by 50 percent, from 20 kilometers (over 12 miles) to 30 kilometers (almost 19 miles) The ground version of the Pantsir is a combined gun-missile air defense system featuring a wheeled vehicle mounting a fire-control radar and electro-optical sensor, two 30-mm cannons and up to a dozen 57E6 radio-command-guided short-range missiles. The system is designed to take on a variety of low-flying targets, including cruise missiles and aircraft.
Brazil is apt to purchase Russian Pantsir air defense systems as early as in the first half of 2016, Brazilian Ambassador to Russia Jose Vallim Guerreiro said 29 June 2015. "A general decision on the purchase has been made…As far as I know, the deal is expected in the first half of 2016,” Guerreiro told RIA Novosti. In a January interview with RIA Novosti the ambassador had suggested that the contract on the delivery of Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems to the Latin American country could be signed in the beginning of 2015.
Guerreiro explained that this delay was mainly because “the 2015 budget did not provide enough financial resources to pay for armaments.” He added that the work is currently underway to include a corresponding provision in the 2016 budget. The two countries launched negotiations on Pantsir deliveries in 2012.
Users or those placing orders include Algeria, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, UAE, Oman, Jordan and Syria. Russia has been selling its air defense to more countries in recent years, including Turkey which purchased the S-400. The experience in Syria and Libya, ironically against Turkey which is also a Russian customer, has harmed the reputation of Russia's Pantsir and been a setback for the system.
Pantsir-ME
The countries of the Middle East are interested in the naval version of the Pantsir-ME anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex. This was announced 25 February 2019 by TASS director for international cooperation and regional policy Rostec Victor Kladov. "We see a huge interest in this product from the Middle Eastern countries and not only. We are sure that Pantsir-ME as the adapted version for the sea of ??the famous Pantsir-C1 will have very big market prospects, but today some agreements to speak prematurely, the demonstration of the complex took place only a few days ago, "said Kladov.
"Pantsir-ME" was first introduced abroad in the framework of the international military-technical exhibition IDEX-2019, which was held in Abu Dhabi. Earlier, in the holding company “High-precision complexes” (part of Rostec), TASS clarified that the complex can be installed on all types of warships - from a missile boat with a displacement of about 500 tons to an aircraft carrier.
The complex is capable of hitting air targets flying at speeds of up to 1000 m / s, the range of destruction of targets of most modern combat aircraft with a slant range is up to 20 km with rocket weapons and up to 4 km with artillery weapons.
