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SAMP/T: a new success for the Aster missile

Paris, France - The test launch for the ground version of the French-Italian guided rocket succeeded as it destroyed its aerial target

The French and Italian armed forces will start taking delivery of the first Aster 30 surface-to-air missiles related to the SAMP/T ground system by next year. A test has been recently successfully performed by the launch of a guided rocket against an aerial target which has been reached and destroyed some 26 km far from the launcher and at 7000 m altitude. The missile’s in flight position with reference t...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 124582
Rome, Italy, 07/28/2005 18:26
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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