MBDA offers PARS 3 as HOT successor

摘要

A range of evolutionary developments of the 7 km-range PARS 3 LR (LRTRIGAT) air-ground missile system, now in production for the Bundeswehr's Tiger attack helicopter fleet, has been proposed to the German Ministry of Defence by MBDA Germany as a potential successor to the Bundeswehr's current HOT missile inventory. The latter is due to be withdrawn from service in2017-18. Dubbed 'Future HOT', MBDA is suggesting development on a national basis of a family of missiles broadly analogous to the longer-range MHT version of the multinational Multi-Role Combat Missile project. MHT, which MBDA Germany has been studying in conjunction with its French and British counterparts for the past several years and is unfunded, would remain the group's preferred offering in international markets.