RSE Kriens guided missile
The RSE Kriens guided missile was an anti-aircraft missile developed in Switzerland that was never mass-produced . Kriens stands for the town of Kriens in the canton of Lucerne .
history
From 1959 to 1966 Contraves developed the RSE Kriens guided weapon together with many other Swiss companies. Oerlikon was able to fall back on experience with the RSC / D guided missile system. The RSE Kriens guided missile was financed by Swiss industry and the federal government and developed until it was ready for series production. The first flight was on March 23, 1964. The modular system used state-of-the-art technology for the ground systems and guided missiles. The whole system could be connected to a multi-part cluster that contained several radars and rocket launchers. After the introduction of the BL-64 Bloodhound , the project was canceled by the EMD . For export, the system was named Micon instead of Kriens . It was never mass-produced, neither for Switzerland nor for any other country. A launcher with two guided weapons is now in the Flieger-Flab-Museum in Dübendorf. Contraves used the experience gained for the Zenit sounding rocket .
The fire unit consists of: measuring radar, 1–3 direction finders, 4 launchers, command vehicles, equipment vehicles and several units (generators). Equipment vehicles, command vehicles, direction finders and units were housed individually on single-axle trailers, the measuring radar and rocket launchers each on two-axle trailers.
Guided missile
- Solid-state missile, canard construction, command and target coverage steering method.
- Length = 5.4 m
- Body diameter = 42 cm
- Wingspan = 2.0 m
- Rudder span = 1.5 m
- Takeoff weight = 800Kg
- Empty weight = 360Kg
- Thrust / burning time = 6.5 t for 9 seconds then 1.8 t for 16 seconds
- Burning speed = 900 m / s
- Warhead = 70 kg
- On-board supply = generator for hydraulics and electronics 20 kW
- Maximum altitude = 27 km
- Speed = Mach 2.9
- Maximum range = 35 km
Launch car
Two-axis lower mount of Flab Kanone 63 with two hydraulically elevatable yokes with launch vehicle, with which the launch vehicle could be equipped with rockets independently and no additional crane / loading device or loading vehicle was necessary.
- Length = 5.3 m
- Width = 2.25 m
- Height ready to drive = 2.95 m
- Weight without missile = 6.4 t.
literature
- Hugo Schneider: Armament and equipment of the Swiss Army since 1817: Air defense light and medium anti-aircraft missiles Anti-aircraft guided missiles, Volume 12 of Armament and Equipment of the Swiss Army since 1817. Stocker-Schmidt publishing house, 1982.