Posted on 07/01/2010 2:27:45 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
As RIA Novosti reports, the Russian Defense Ministry will hold talks during an international engineering forum near Moscow with France's Sagem Defense Securite on the possible purchase of a Sigma 30 inertial navigation system.
The Engineering Technologies International Forum 2010 will be held from June 30 through July 4 in the town of Zhukovsky, 40 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
Earlier this month, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin invited the French-based Sagem company (SAFRAN group), a European leader in defense and consumer electronics, for talks in Moscow.
Popovkin said Russia is interested in purchasing the Sigma 30 artillery navigation and pointing system as part of efforts to modernize its Smerch and Grad multiple rocket launchers.
"We are ready to offer Russia the Sigma 30 system for the modernization of the Russian artillery and multiple rocket launchers," a Sagem spokesman told RIA Novosti.
He said Sagem delivers Sigma systems to a wide range of Russian military manufacturers, including Sukhoi.
"There is a demand for the latest navigation and pointing systems because the firing range of the modernized multiple rocket launchers like the Grad has risen from 40 to 50-60 kilometers and fire control systems therefore also need to be modernized," the spokesman said.
The Sigma 30 artillery navigation and pointing system is designed for high-precision firing at short notice
The frogs are military whores.
The frogs are military whores.
Two countries that deserve to be thrown out of NATO: France and Turkey
Agreed!
Germany ain’t no slouch either.
Anything for a buck/euro.
Wonder how they compare to Kearflott and Honeywell in performance?
Good Question.I know is the Indian Army is currently using the Sigma navigation system and it has been proven in combat on a Caesar 155 mm gun. NATO uses the navigation system on the Mars multiple rocket system.
Wonder how they compare to Kearflott and Honeywell in performance?
If the Sigma system is used on NATO MRLS this would something the Russians might want to use on their MRLS.
I’m thinking in terms of mils and meters and MTBF, A-sub-oh and those things.
With longer range comes a desire for improved pointing accuracy, measured in mils. (A mil is the angle subtended by one meter at on kilometer, about a milliradian.)
Russian short range artillery rockets are notoriously inaccurate, so worry about were you aimed the damned thing in the first place would imply improved accuracy.
You may want to check on the SAGEM site, but I doubt that they would publish the technical data on the SIGMA. Even Wikipedia which is notorious of giving out technical data does not mention it.
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