Enhanced ERYX registers 100 % success rate
Eryx, the infantry short-range fire support weapon, now features new night targeting capabilities and a new training simulator. During its first international evaluation in October 2009, the new Eryx registered eight hits out of eight firings.
During its first export demonstration, carried out in the Gulf at the beginning of October, the enhanced Eryx anti-armour system registered a 100% hit rate during a test firing campaign which comprised a total of eight shots. Of these eight shots, four were carried out at night with the aid of the latest generation thermal sight designed for adaptation on the Eryx firing post.
As well as proving the new enhanced night capabilities, the firing campaign also enabled well known Eryx features to be confirmed: suitable for firing within confined spaces, exceptional penetration capability against reinforced concrete and ease of operation. With regard to the latter feature, the client’s own evaluators fired the majority of the missiles having previously undergone only two hours’ training on the simulator.
The new Eryx thermal sight replaces the classic, cooled infrared detectors with a new, non-cooled bolometric sensor which brings various advantages. Without a cooler, the new thermal sight is totally silent and therefore more discreet for night combat. Other advantages associated with the new sighting system include reduced weight, increased reliability and prolonged battery life. Rather than losing sensitivity, this non-cooled sight actually provides an augmented range for detection, reconnaissance and identification, a range which significantly exceeds the range of the Eryx missile.
The enhanced Eryx system also introduces NETS (New Eryx Training Simulator), a new generation technical training simulator. Based on a modified firing post and a PC serving to programme ground engagement scenarios, NETS introduces new improved features with encrusted 3D targets in the scenario seen by the firing operator through the aiming optics.
In service since 1993, over 57,000 Eryx missiles have been ordered. The system has been used operationally and, thanks to its eight customer countries, has become recognised as a global benchmark for short-range ground combat. Discreetness while firing, warhead lethality and its alignment guidance method all combine to enable Eryx to be used with equal effectiveness in asymmetric urban combat as well as in open terrain operations against armour or all other mobile targets. These features also serve to make Eryx a formidable weapon against fortifications.
The new, enhanced Eryx development, self-funded by MBDA since 2007, has already obtained its first customer, a customer in the Middle East where the different system elements (firing post, munitions and simulator) will enter service during 2010.
Le système à courte portée Eryx introduit de nouvelles capacités de visée nocturne et un nouveau simulateur d’entraînement. Il enregistre huit coups au but sur huit tirs lors de sa première évaluation internationale en octobre.
A l’occasion de sa première démonstration à l’export, le système antichar Eryx rénové a enregistré un bilan de 100 % de coups au but lors d’une campagne de huit tirs réalisés dans un pays du Golfe début octobre. Sur ces huit tirs, quatre ont été réalisés de nuit à l’aide de la nouvelle lunette thermique de dernière génération conçue pour s’adapter au poste de tir Eryx.
Outre les capacités de nuit améliorées, cette campagne de tir a permis de confirmer les qualités reconnues du système Eryx : tir en espace confiné, capacités de pénétration exceptionnelles sur cible en béton armé et facilité de mise en œuvre puisque les évaluateurs du client, qui ont tiré la majorité des missiles, ont été formés en deux heures sur simulateur.
La nouvelle lunette thermique Eryx remplace les classiques détecteurs infrarouges refroidis par de nouveaux capteurs bolométriques non refroidis et apporte de multiples avantages. Sans refroidisseur, la nouvelle lunette thermique Eryx devient parfaitement silencieuse, accroît sa discrétion pour le combat de nuit, et gagne en poids, en fiabilité et en durée de fonctionnement sur batterie. Loin de perdre en sensibilité, cette lunette non refroidie offre au contraire des portées de détection, de reconnaissance et d’identification en augmentation et qui, toutes, dépassent largement les 600 mètres de portée du missile Eryx.
Le système Eryx rénové introduit également un simulateur d’entraînement technique de nouvelle génération, le NETS (New Eryx Training Simulator). Basé sur un poste de tir modifié ainsi qu’un ordinateur PC servant à programmer des scénarios d’engagement terrestre, le NETS apporte de nouvelles capacités enrichies avec des cibles en 3D incrustées dans la scène vue par le tireur au travers de l’optique de visée.
En service depuis 1993, le missile Eryx a été commandé à plus de 57.000 exemplaires, a été utilisé en opération et est devenu une référence mondiale pour le combat terrestre à courte portée, grâce à ses huit pays clients. Discrétion au lancement, puissance de la charge et mode de guidage par alignement permettent à l’Eryx d’être employé efficacement aussi bien en combat urbain asymétrique qu’en espace dégagé dans la lutte antichar ou toute autre cible mobile, ainsi que comme une redoutable arme anti-fortification. Développé par MBDA sur fonds propres depuis 2007, le système Eryx rénové a déjà été vendu à un premier pays du Moyen-Orient où ses différentes composantes (poste de tir, munitions et simulateur) entreront en service courant 2010.
Eryx, the infantry short-range fire support weapon, now features new night targeting capabilities and a new training simulator. During its first international evaluation in October 2009, the new Eryx registered eight hits out of eight firings.
During its first export demonstration, carried out in the Gulf at the beginning of October, the enhanced Eryx anti-armour system registered a 100% hit rate during a test firing campaign which comprised a total of eight shots. Of these eight shots, four were carried out at night with the aid of the latest generation thermal sight designed for adaptation on the Eryx firing post.
As well as proving the new enhanced night capabilities, the firing campaign also enabled well known Eryx features to be confirmed: suitable for firing within confined spaces, exceptional penetration capability against reinforced concrete and ease of operation. With regard to the latter feature, the client’s own evaluators fired the majority of the missiles having previously undergone only two hours’ training on the simulator.
The new Eryx thermal sight replaces the classic, cooled infrared detectors with a new, non-cooled bolometric sensor which brings various advantages. Without a cooler, the new thermal sight is totally silent and therefore more discreet for night combat. Other advantages associated with the new sighting system include reduced weight, increased reliability and prolonged battery life. Rather than losing sensitivity, this non-cooled sight actually provides an augmented range for detection, reconnaissance and identification, a range which significantly exceeds the range of the Eryx missile.
The enhanced Eryx system also introduces NETS (New Eryx Training Simulator), a new generation technical training simulator. Based on a modified firing post and a PC serving to programme ground engagement scenarios, NETS introduces new improved features with encrusted 3D targets in the scenario seen by the firing operator through the aiming optics.
In service since 1993, over 57,000 Eryx missiles have been ordered. The system has been used operationally and, thanks to its eight customer countries, has become recognised as a global benchmark for short-range ground combat. Discreetness while firing, warhead lethality and its alignment guidance method all combine to enable Eryx to be used with equal effectiveness in asymmetric urban combat as well as in open terrain operations against armour or all other mobile targets. These features also serve to make Eryx a formidable weapon against fortifications.
The new, enhanced Eryx development, self-funded by MBDA since 2007, has already obtained its first customer, a customer in the Middle East where the different system elements (firing post, munitions and simulator) will enter service during 2010.
L’Eryx, il missile di corto raggio utilizzato dalle truppe di fanteria, è stato recentemente migliorato con nuove capacità di visione notturna e nuovi sistemi di simulazione per l’addestramento. Durante la prima fase di valutazione a livello internazionale, che si è svolta lo scorso ottobre, il nuovo Eryx ha fatto registrare otto centri su un totale di otto tiri effettuati.
La versione rinnovata del sistema anticarro Eryx ha registrato un successo al 100% in una campagna di otto lanci, nella sua prima dimostrazione estera, effettuata agli inizi di ottobre nel Golfo Persico. Di questi otto lanci, quattro sono stati realizzati di notte con l’ausilio del nuovo visore termico di ultima generazione progettato per adattarsi al posto di lancio dell’Eryx.
Oltre a provare le nuove avanzate capacità notturne, questa campagna di lancio ha permesso di confermare le qualità già riconosciute al sistema Eryx: lancio da spazi delimitati, eccezionali capacità di penetrazione di bersagli induriti e semplicità di installazione. Riguardo a quest’ultima caratteristica, i valutatori del cliente, che hanno lanciato la maggior parte dei missili, erano stati sottoposti solo a due ore di formazione nel simulatore.
Il nuovo visore termico Eryx sostituisce i classici sensori a infrarossi raffreddati con nuovi sensori bolometrici non raffreddati, apportando molteplici vantaggi. Senza raffreddatore, il nuovo visore termico Eryx diventa perfettamente silenzioso, aumentando così la discrezione durante il combattimento notturno. Tra gli altri vantaggi, associati al nuovo sistema, figurano un peso ridotto, una maggiore affidabilità e una durata prolungata della batteria. Senza perdere sensibilità, questo visore non raffreddato attualmente consente un maggiore campo di rilevamento, di individuazione e di identificazione, portata che supera di gran lunga la gittata del missile Eryx.
Il sistema Eryx rinnovato introduce inoltre il NETS (New Eryx Training Simulator), un simulatore di addestramento tecnico di nuova generazione. Basato su un posto di lancio modificato e su un PC che programma scenari di ingaggio a terra, il NETS introduce nuove caratteristiche con bersagli 3D nello scenario visto dall’addetto al fuoco con l’aiuto di puntatori ottici.
In servizio dal 1993, sono stati ordinati più di 57.000 missili Eryx. Il sistema è stato utilizzato operativamente e, grazie ai suoi otto paesi clienti, è stato riconosciuto come un benchmark mondiale per il combattimento terreste a corto raggio. grazie ai suoi otto paesi clienti. Discrezionalità nel lancio, letalità della testa di guerra e la sua modalità di guida tramite allineamento rendono l’Eryx capace di essere impiegato, con eguale efficacia, sia nel combattimento urbano asimmetrico che in operazioni in campo aperto contro mezzi corazzati e contro tutti gli altri bersagli mobili. Queste caratteristiche, inoltre, rendono l’Eryx un’arma formidabile, anche contro le fortificazioni.
Il nuovo Eryx, il cui sviluppo è stato auto-finanziato da MBDA a partire dal 2007, ha già avuto il suo primo cliente, un paese del Medio Oriente dove i differenti elementi di sistema (posto di lancio, munizioni e simulatore) entreranno in servizio nel corso del 2010.