Lightweight missile launcher aims to boost small craft firepower

摘要

Thales UK has teamed with Turkish systems house Aselsan and fast boat builder Yonca-Onuk to develop a compact shipbome launcher system for its Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) low-collateral-damage precision weapon. Designed to give fast interceptor craft increased punch, the LMM Missile Launcher System (MLS) combines a two-axis gyro-stabilised turret accommodating four ready-to-launch LMM missiles, an off-mount stabilised electro-optical director (incorpo- rating a laser transmitter unit to support LMM laser beam-riding guidance) and a bridge-mounted control and display unit.