Roland, Franco-German SAM

This guided missile capability has indeed been proven, until the United States armed forces felt necessary to put in they inventori, the guided missile that entered in the category surface to air missile had shown his intensity at the time of the first gulf war, at the time Roland property of the Iraq armed forces in trusted by the observers of the military was successful hit the the land attack aircraft belonging to United States A-10 Thunderbolt. This guided missile was produced by French and Germany, that were in partnership of forming the Euromissile company, Roland the first time began in used during 1977, and since then this guided missile emerged in various versions until the latest version was Roland VT1.

The Roland's guided missile have many version, in adapted with the development of technology that in developed for this guided missile, for Roland's version 1, that began in in 1977 used tracking technology and manual optics guided, for Roland 2 that in used during 1981 the tracking has used full automatic technology and his radar guided, whereas Roland 3 distances covered the guided missile in more and the enlarged the warhead, this version guided missile began to operate during 1988, and that was most latest was Roland VT1 the change that was striking from this newest version was the speed of the guided missile that has entered the category hypervelocity, until could slide in the speed of the maximum 1,6 mach.

Roland could be launched from various platforms began that was dynamic to static, to that was dynamic Roland could use the good platform the tank, panser as well as the other wheeled tactical vehicle, whereas that at this time was in developed was Roland that was used statically that had the platform a kind shelter and was used to be on duty at the military base or the strategic location, Roland's model this kind in gave the name of Roland CAROL. As the Surface to Air guided missile, Roland could destroy the target to the height 5.500 metre with the range reached out 8.000 metre, for the warhead Roland used the kind prefragmented high-explosive weighing 6.5 kg, the total weight from this guided missile reached 67 kg, for the fuel, Roland used the solid fuel.

This guided missile has been spread in many country, such as: France, Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria, Qatar, Slovenia (Roland's 9 units version II), Spain, and Venezuela, and still had several of Roland that was recorded had entered in they inventory but has been again inactive including being: Germany, the USA and Iraq.

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