Roland (air defence)

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The Roland is a Franco-German mobile short-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. The Roland is one of a very few foreign SAM system to be purchased for the US Army and Marine Corps by the US Army Missile Command.

Contents

1 Versions
2 Carriers
3 Users
4 External links

Versions

Four different versions of Roland have been produced so far:

Roland 1 - manual optical tracking and guidance, entered service 1977
Roland 2 - full automatic tracking and guidance with radar, 1981
Roland 3 - extended range, enlarged warhead, 1988
Roland VT1 - hypervelocity missile

Current systems are capable of launching Roland 2, 3 or VT1 missiles.

Carriers

The Roland system has been installed on a variety of platforms, amongst them:

tracked

wheeled

ACMAT 6x6

MAN 6x6, 8x8

An airliftable shelter named Roland CAROL has also been devoloped, which is a 7.8t container that can be deployed on the ground to protect fixed assets like airfields or depots or fitted on a truck.

Users

Roland is currently in service with the defence forces of France, Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria, Qatar, Slovenia (9x Roland II), Spain, USA and Venezuela. It is no longer in service in Germany.

External links

[Army Technology]

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