The Crotale (English: "Rattlesnake") is a French, all-weather, short-range surface-to-air missile system developed to intercept airborne ranged weapons...
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Crotales (/ˈkroʊtɑːlz/, /ˈkroʊtəlz/), sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each...
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(24 in) long and 56 cm (22 in) wide, and each cell has its own exhaust vent. Crotale NG (VT1) missiles can be quad-packed in one cell. The primary application...
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trained conscripts for ground based air defence systems and guns such as Crotale NG and 23 ITK 61. 2nd Air Defence Battery trained most of the NCOs of the...
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mm/87 23 ItK 95 20mm Tarasque VAB VDAA Panhard ERC 20 Kriss Aster / SAMP/T Crotale Mistral Roland Man-portable air-defense systems: Mistral MANPADS Air-to-air...
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copy of the Chinese HQ-7 missile, itself an unlicensed copy of the French Crotale missile short-range air defense system. The system entered production in...
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Changfeng Electromechanical Technology Design Institute from the French R-440 Crotale SAM. It entered service in the early 1980s. A ground battery consists of...
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French Navy in the 2021–2023 period. The system replaced the previous Crotale system in order to provide a modernized defence against sea-skimming targets...
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warships armed with surface-to-air missiles in the form of the short-range Crotale (called HQ-7 in Chinese service.) The Type 052 used subsystems imported...
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helicopters. They were the first ships fitted with the marine version of the Crotale surface-to-air missile system. A Malafon anti-submarine missile system...
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