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🇩🇪 Rheinmetall Skyranger 30
Land · Rheinmetall (Rheinmetall Air Defence AG / eski Oerlikon, İsviçre) · 2024 (sipariş) · ilk teslim 2027-2028
The Rheinmetall Skyranger 30 is a counter-UAS and short-range air-defense turret — a 30 mm airburst autocannon plus short-range missiles and a radar on an armored chassis — built to cheaply shoot down drones, loitering munitions and helicopters.
Specifications
- Type: Mobile multi-role short/very short range air defense + Counter-UAS turret system
- Manufacturer / origin: Rheinmetall Air Defence AG (formerly Oerlikon), Switzerland / Germany
- Main armament: 30×173 mm Oerlikon KCE revolver gun (KCA derivative), muzzle velocity ~1,075 m/s
- Rate of fire / effective range: ~1,200 rds/min; effective range up to 3.0 km
- Ammunition: AHEAD programmable air-burst (tungsten sub-projectile cloud) + standard 30 mm; ~300 ready rounds
- Missiles: FIM-92 Stinger (~5 km, USA) or Mistral-3 (~8 km, France/MBDA); MBDA DefendAir integration planned
- Sensor: 360° AESA surveillance radar (Hensoldt Spexer 2000M 3D MkIII / Rheinmetall AMMR) + cooled MWIR/HD EO-IR + laser rangefinder
- Carrier platforms: Boxer 8×8 (Germany), Pandur EVO 6×6 (Austria), Lynx KF41 (Hungary), Piranha V (Denmark)
- Turret crew: 2 (operator + commander); largely automated
- Protection: STANAG 4569 Level 2 (upgradable to Level 4) + ROSY smoke screen launchers
- Status / year: Ordered 2024; validation model to Germany 2025; first serial delivery 2027-2028
Beats: Pantsir-S1 (Rusya) — daha modern AESA radar + AHEAD hava-patlamalı top mikro-dronlara karşı çok daha yüksek isabet; Pantsir Ukrayna'da dron/füzeye karşı zayıf kaldı, Gepard (Almanya, emekli) — onun bıraktığı boşluğu dolduruyor; modern radar, otomatik takip ve programlanabilir mühimmatla nesil atlatıyor, Avenger / M1097 (ABD) — sadece Stinger taşıyan Avenger'ın aksine top + füze + AESA radar ile sürü dronlara karşı çok daha derin ve ucuz atış hacmi
Loses to: NASAMS (Norveç/ABD) — orta menzilli AMRAAM ile çok daha uzun erişim; Skyranger yalnızca kısa/çok-kısa menzil katmanını kapatır, IRIS-T SLM (Almanya) — ~40 km menzilli füze katmanıyla seyir füzesi ve uçaklara karşı çok daha geniş zarf sunar, Pantsir-SM (Rusya) — daha uzun füze menzili (~40 km) iddiasıyla erişimde öne çıkar; Skyranger top-ağırlıklı yakın savunmada kalır
Skyranger answers the cheap-drone problem with a cheap-per-kill mix: a 30 mm gun firing programmable AHEAD airburst rounds for swarms, plus Stinger/Mistral missiles for harder targets, all cued by an onboard AESA radar. Mounted on Boxer 8x8 or tracked chassis, it is mobile and modular. Its limit is short range — it cannot reach high or fast threats like ballistic or cruise missiles.
Related systems
Related systems (Land): SİPER, HİSAR-O+, HİSAR-A+, SUNGUR, KORKUT, Tayfun, GÜRZ, S-400 Triumf, Patriot (PAC-3), Bora
