Dnipro (surface-to-air missile)

Dnipro is Ukrainian perspective surface-to-air missile of middle range. It was supposed to be mounted on Volodymyr Velykyi-class corvettes. First test examples should be ready in 2014.

SAM Dnipro
TypeSurface-to-air missile
Place of originUkraine
Production history
DesignerUkroboronservice
Designed2016

Later it was discovered that it would also be on a land platform.

December 1, 2016 was posted a message about successful launches of cruise missiles «Neptune» and anti-aircraft missiles «Dnipro» at a training range in the southern of Ukraine.[1]

Tactical and technical characteristics

  • The maximum detection range of a target type of a tactical fighter:
    • at an altitude of 7 km - not less than 150 km;
    • at an altitude of 0,15 km - not less than 50 km;
    • at an altitude of 0.02 km - not less than 28 km;
  • Range of steady escort of tactical fighter - 120 km;
  • Minimum height of target damage is 0.015 km;
  • Maximum defeat height of the target is 25 km;
  • Time of preparation (inclusion) of the complex for combat work - no more than 4 minutes.

Producers

Medium range SAM "Dnipro" is a product of joint activity of Ukrainian defense enterprises:

  • Iskra SPC (multipurpose radar missile launching station) — Zaporizhia;
  • SPP «Aerotehnics-MLT» (the station of combat control) — Kyiv;
  • Luch (Design Bureau) (rockets) — Kyiv;
  • DP LINDRTI (GSN developer) — Lviv;
  • KrAZ (chassis) — Kremenchuk.

General project management «Ukroboronservice».

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