MBDA مزوّد تقليدي للمقاتلات الاوروبية ...
احد مقالات Air & Cosmos تحدثت عن دمج البرايمستون على الرافال وأنه تقنيا , هناك امكانية , وأن مسألة الدمج تحتاج لـ 12 شهر على الاقل ... واشارة ان الرافال يمكن ان تحمل عدد 12 برايمستون ..
Missiles: MBDA believes in Brimstone on Rafale
What if it was the precision armament that still lacks the Rafale? It must be said that between the 30-mm gun and the 250-kg bomb, the French combat aircraft does not have a reduced-collateral ammunition, as demonstrated by Operation Harmattan in Libya. As early as 2011, the British MBDA teams had approached Dassault, the DGA and the Air Force to propose their solution to the problem: the Dual Mode Brimstone (DMB) air-to-ground missile, a small guided 50-kg weapon Hybrid radar and semi-active laser that had brilliantly illustrated during the operation, where it was implemented by the Tornado GR4 of the Royal Air Force.
Technically, the feasibility of the operation seemed to be beyond doubt. "On Rafale, it is possible to achieve a first integration at minimum in about 12 months", confirmed Adrian Monks, at the head of the "Short Range Surface Attack" unit at MBDA, during a briefing given occasionally Of the "Delivering Precision Effects in a Complex Environment" conference organized by the 3AF and held in Paris from 27 to 29 November.
This "emergency" integration would involve the carrying of six missiles in point 2 of wing, on triple adapters similar to those used today by the Tornado. A solution that would no longer allow to carry away AASM during the same mission, these being also integrated in this location of the wing on Rafale.
On the other hand, further integration of the Brimstone on Rafale would envisage "a maximum of 12 missiles", according to Adrian Monks. What could be achieved by opening the sails 3 (near missile Mica at the end of wing), now unused, or the rear fuselage lateral points now reserved for the air-to-air missile Mica and,
Why did not the integration of Brimstone occur in 2011? No official answer emerges, but everyone goes there from his little explanation. For the detractors of the British solution, the bill presented itself as too salty: first for the integration itself, which some estimate to about 100 million euros for the carriage of six missiles; Then because of the unit cost of Brimstone, which would prove to be higher than that of the AASM in its most complex versions (laser and infrared). What's more, Sagem logically took a very bad look at the arrival on the Rafale of a competing missile, while the French industrialist has been trying for years to obtain the financing of a light "AASM" of 125 kg , With reduced collateral effect,
Another possible explanation is that the very average performances of the Damocles designation nacelle in the identification of small targets in urban environments would not have allowed to reproduce on Rafale the performances obtained by the trio Tornado GR4 / Litening / Brimstone nacelle during the operation Harmattan. Hence a reluctance of the French party to finance the integration of the missile, if the "eyes" of the plane did not follow. That is why, on the British side, it is said today to wait until the end of the decade and the
(with the
) to "re - attack" the Rafale file. Unless an export client imposes to put it on the carpet meanwhile ...
Other opportunities exist for Brimstone on the French market. At the 3AF conference, the missile presented an artist's view (above, MBDA credit) illustrating the carrying of six missiles on a Tiger helicopter. By 2020-2025, it will be necessary to find a replacement to the American AGM-114 Hellfire to equip the Tiger HAD of the army of Earth. But the Brimstone could face internal competition here, as French MBDA teams put forward a future MLP "long-range missile" directly derived from
which could include several subsystems.
In the short term, MBDA also intends to place its Brimstone on the MQ-9 Reaper drone; A first test run from this platform is due to take place very soon. The goal is not only to equip the Reaper of the Royal Air Force, but also those of the US Air Force. And why not, tomorrow, the Reaper of the Air Force ...
البرايمستون او الرمح ( التطوير ) وغيرها من ذخائر ( احدها كمثال الميتيور والصاروخ البحري المشترك بين فرنسا وبريطانيا الذي تم توقيع عقد تطويره ) ... كلها تتناسب ومعايير المقاتلات الاوروبية ..
فقط اجراءات الدمج وما يتطلبه ذلك من اختبارات ووقت ... ويصبح التسليح رسميا جزء من باكيج المقاتلة .
