USA set up a mobile anti-missile complex

Raytheon Company has established a prototype tactical Phalanx antimissile systems based chetyrehosnogo truck off-road HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck). As reported by Defense News, the project was implemented in conjunction with Oshkosh.

According to the developers, mobile version complex will significantly improve the protection of military bases and important objects from the firing of rockets, mortar shells and ammunition.

At the moment, The U.S. Army has deployed at the bases in Iraq 22 mounted on trailer Falanksa. " Ground-based version of the complex, which originally was created to protect ships, has received designation Centurion.

Phalanx is a computerized system, comprising shestistvolnaya air defense artillery installation of fire 20 millimeters, radar detection and tracking purposes, as well as the fire control system, which calculates the flight trajectory and has a goal according to priorities. Artillery installations reaches a rate of 6000 rounds per minute. Range is 1.5 kilometers.

Truck HEMTT equipped with a diesel-electric power plant, which produces a current capacity of 120 kilowatts and requires no additional generators for electricity "Falanksa." Waiver of auxiliary equipment for the mobile version will enable the transport plane C-17 three antimissile systems instead of one.