Sky Sabre (Tracked):This model represents the fourth and final installment of my proposal which sought to provide an AH remedy to the real-life tragedy that is the history of modern British land-based air defence. The previous models - Bloodhound Mk 4 (TEL and ECV), Guardian (TEL and ECV) and Excalibur - are described in full earlier in this thread and so I won't rehash them here.
The AH Sky Sabre (Tracked) is a fully tracked version of the truck-mounted Sky Sabre system currently operated by the British Army and is envisaged to fulfil the SHORAD role for the British Army's forward deployed armoured formations in Poland - a distinctly possible scenario given the current political and military instability on NATO's eastern flank.
Sky Sabre is built around MBDA's Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM) which is derived from and shares some common components with the Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) but with updated electronics, a vertical cold-launch system and an active radar homing seeker. (1) The launcher carries 12 ready use missiles all of which are capable of being independently targeted via a data link to multiple land and air-based cuing sensors. As a reversionary back up the launcher also has its own passive thermo-optical tracker.
Both the actual truck-mounted system and my proposed tracked version share a palletised missile rack system based on the tried and tested Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System (DROPS) which allows the launcher to self-load and unload its missile pallet using an integral hook and its primary hydraulic system.
The model is built on the hull of Dragon's M270 with a whole lot of home-grown scratch build and 3D print on the back. The whole thing has been a marathon task of design research and mechanical/build challenges which have stretched the little grey cells - great fun!
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1: CAMM (missile family) - Wikipedia
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