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IAI/MBT Missiles Division and Rheinmetall Defence have joined forces to offer an upgrade kit for Leopard 1/2 main battle tanks featuring a gun-launched laser homing weapon system (Lahat).
Lahat is a laser homing tank-launched missile packaged in a standard tank round cartridge. It can thus be launched from a 105 mm gun or from a 120 mm gun using a sabot. As a tank-launched weapon, Lahat gives MBTs an important new capability, enabling first-shot kills of armoured targets at ranges over 6 km using internal or external designation.
It also provides new capabilities in challenging scenarios such as combat in open areas as well as in as urban warfare, using indirect firing with external designation.
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Lahat is a laser homing tank-launched missile packaged in a standard tank round cartridge. View Full Resolution Picture
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The missile system passed a successful live-fire demonstration in Meppen, Germany, last year. During the demonstration the Lahat missiles were launched from the gun of a Leopard 2-A4 tank. One missile was fired against a stationary tank; the second missile was fired against a moving tank driven by remote control. Both targets were located about 4 km from the launching tank, and both missiles scored direct hits, within 30 cm from the centre of the laser designation spot.
Rheinmetall Defence is at the Defendory 2006 in Athens (Piraeus Exhibition Center, Hall 1, Stand No. 259-271) Rheinmetall will be presenting a wide array of products and services as well as capability-oriented system solutions, with a special focus on the following disciplines: Networking Sensors and Effectors for Naval Applications, Future Soldier System, Air Defence and Combat Improvement.
