Ground Launcher

The Roark Air Defence System (RADS) provides rapidly deployable, comprehensive inner-layer protection against a wide variety of asymmetric and conventional threats, including rockets, UAV’s, artillery shells, mortars (RAM), ballistic bombs and stand-off weapons. Able to track and neutralise up to 80 incoming targets at one time, the Roark Missile System provides protection for static assets, as well as conditional protection for mobile and mechanised forces.

PROVIDES DEFENCE FOR
Static assets: urban areas, buildings, airports, ports, critical infrastructure, forward operating bases.
Mobile assets: mobile convoy,mechanised convoy, front lines of own forces.

PROTECTS AGAINST
Rockets, artillery shells and mortars (RAM)Ballistic bombs.
Stand-off weapons, including UAVs, precision guided munitions (PGMs), cruise missiles and glide bombs.
Conventional threats, including fighter ground-attack (FGA) aircraft and helicopters.

SYSTEM COMPONENTS
Control Node.
Up to 4 x Active Electronically Scanned Array(AESA) Multi-Mission Radar (AMMR)surveillance and tracking radars.
Up to 4 x Missile Launcher Units (MLU)
60 x Missile Rounds (MR) per MLU
Up to 4 x Revolver Guns (RG) Mk3 with airburst ammunition

PERFORMANCE
Intercept ranges

MISSILES
RAM threats: 4,000m
PGM: 6,000m
Rotary wing,
UAV and CM: 10,000m

Fixed wing: 10,000m / 8,000m
(high g maneuvering)

GUNS
FW/RW: 4,000m
Mortars, small UAVs: 1,500m

RATE OF FIRE
Up to 4 x RG Mk3 guns: 1,000 rounds/minute per gun
Up to 20 x missiles simultaneously per MLU
Up to x 80 missiles in flight at the same time per battery

Specifications

Number of missiles 21
Rate of fire 2/sec
Traverse 320°
Elevation -15° to 75