Sunday, November 23, 2008

Mistral

IOC: 1988
Total Production: 15,000

Also Known As
Mistral Atlas (Vehicle-mounted launcher fitted with two ready-to-fire Mistral missiles)
Mistral-2
Sadral (6-cell launcher)

Origin
France

Contractor/s
MBDA

Applications
ATAM
Aviso Type A69
AW129 International
Chakri Nareubet
Charles de Gaulle
Diponegoro
Endurance
F70 AA
F70 ASM
Fearless
Foudre
FPB 44
FPB 45
Gazelle
Helsinki
LeFlaSys
Rauma
Rooivalk
Skjold
Tiger HAD
Tiger HAP
Tiger UHT
VBL

Description: The Mistral is a fire and forget, short range surface-to-air missile designed to engage air threats. The Mistral has been designed to be launched from a wide range of systems such as MCP, ALBI, MANPADS, SIMBAD, ATLAS, SIGMA, SADRAL, TETRAL and ATAM. The Mistral missile is able to engage a supersonic target flying at 3,000 meters of altitude.

Mistral is being used for point defense, ship self-defense, defense of mobile units and air-to-air engagements (ATAM). It is provided with an imaging Infrared seeker and a blast fragmentation warhead detonated by a proximity laser fuze.

The Mistral 1 is the baseline missile and the Mistral 2 is the improved, most recent, currently in production model. MBDA has produced more than 15,000 Mistral missiles for 25 countries.

The MCP (Mistral Coordination Post) is a vehicle used to coordinate up to11 MANPADS, ALBI and ATLAS firing units. The MANPADS consists of a tripod-mounted firing unit, the ALBI is a ground vehicle with a twin-launcher turret, and the ATLAS is tripod-mounted twin-launcher. The following systems are shipboard air defense systems, SIGMA is a combination of 25/30mm gun and 3 Mistral launchers. SADRAL, TETRAL and SIMBAD are 6-, 4- and 2- Mistral launcher systems respectively.

Specifications
Dimensions: Diameter 90 mm, Length 1,860 mm, Width 180 mm

Weights: Max Weight 18.7 kg (41.2 lb), Warhead 3 kg (6.6 lb)

Performance: Ceiling 3,000 m (9,843 ft), Max Range 6,000 m (19,685 ft), Min Range 500 m (1,640 ft), Top Speed 863 mps (Mach 2.60)

Mistral - Contracts, Orders & Sales

see transactions report

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Very Short-Range Air Defense Missile system (VSHORADMS) solution for the Estonian Ministry of Defense. VSHORADMS includes Mistral missile, Giraffe AMB radar and command, control and communications (C3) centers. The procurement contract worth 60 million Euro with MBDA and Saab was signed on February 28, 2007.

Mistral (ATLAS); items: 3; transferred from Belgium to France in 2007
Items: 3 Options: 0 Purchase Rights: 0

Mistral missiles (180) plus 45 launchers; items: 180; transferred from France to Hungary in 1998 and 1999
Items: 180

Delivery	Items
1999	70 + 18 launchers
1998	110 + 27 launchers

Mistral; items: 12; transferred from France to Chile in 1997
Items: 12

News
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Operators

see operators map

Belgium

As of	Holdings
2007	112 (95 Mistral launching systems and 17 Atlas launching systems)
2006	120 (100 Mistral launching systems and 20 Atlas launching systems)

Chile

Croatia

Cyprus

Estonia

Provided as part of MBDA and Saab very short-range air defense missile system (VSHORADMS) including Mistral missile, Giraffe AMB radar and command, control and communications (C3) centers

Finland

France

Hungary

Hungary 2006 holdings included 45 Mistral-2 missile launchers

As of	Holdings
2007	45 ((45) Mistral-2 MANPADS launchers)

Indonesia

New Zealand

New Zealand's 2006 Mistral weapon system holdings included 12 launchers

Oman

Singapore

United Arab Emirates

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Notes
(*) lead contractor
IOC: Initial Operating Capability
FOC: Full Operating Capability
CEP: Circular Error Probable
Comm: Commissioning Date
Meters (m) Kilometers (km) Nautic Miles (nm) Inch (in) Yard (yd) Foot (ft) Millimeter (mm)
Pound (lb) Kilogram (kg) kN (KiloNewton) Ton (t)
Meters per Second (mps) Kilometers per Hour (kph) Knot (kt) Miles per Hour (mph)
Liter (l) Galon (gl)
Year (yr) Minutes (min) Second (sec)
Shaft-Horse-Power (shp)

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