Dnipro (surface-to-air missile)

Dnipro
Type	Surface-to-air missile
Place of origin	Ukraine
Service history
In service	In testing
Used by	Ukrainian Navy
Production history
Designer	Ukroboronservice
Designed	2014
Manufacturer	Luch Design Bureau
Produced	2016-present
Variants	Ship-platform variant Land-platform variant

Dnipro is Ukrainian prospective surface-to-air missile of middle range. It was supposed to be mounted on Volodymyr Velykyi-class corvettes. First test examples should be ready in 2014.

The designer, Ukroboronservice, also developed the land-platform variant for this missiles.

December 1, 2016 was posted a message about successful launches of cruise missiles Neptune and anti-aircraft missiles Dnipro at a training range in the southern of Ukraine.

Tactical and technical characteristics

• The maximum detection range of a target type of a tactical fighter:
  • at an altitude of 7 km - not less than 150 km;
  • at an altitude of 0,15 km - not less than 50 km;
  • at an altitude of 0.02 km - not less than 28 km;
• Range of steady escort of tactical fighter - 120 km;
• Minimum height of target damage is 0.015 km;
• Maximum defeat height of the target is 25 km;
• Time of preparation (inclusion) of the complex for combat work - no more than 4 minutes.

Producers

Medium range SAM "Dnipro" is a product of joint venture of Ukrainian defense enterprises:

• Iskra SPC (multipurpose radar missile launching station) — Zaporizhia;
• SPP Aerotehnics-MLT (the station of combat control) — Kyiv;
• Luch Design Bureau (rockets) — Kyiv;
• DP LINDRTI (GSN developer) — Lviv;
• KrAZ (chassis) — Kremenchuk.
• Ukroboronservice (General project management)

See also

• Volodymyr Velykyi-class corvette
• Neptune (cruise missile)
• Hrim (missile system)
• Dnepr (rocket)

Links

• "ЗРК "Дніпро" - новий комплекс для ППО". Defense Express. 2017-01-30. https://defence-ua.com/index.php/home-page/2306-zrk-dnipro-novyy-kompleks-dlya-ppo. 
• "Future Arsenal: SAM Dnipro". National Industrial Portal. 2018-01-23. http://uprom.info/en/blogs/nauka-ta-tehnika/maybutniy-arsenal-zrk-dnipro/. 
• "Ukraine will develop new surface-to-air missile system". 2017-01-09. https://quwa.org/2017/01/09/ukraine-will-develop-new-surface-to-air-missile-system/. 
• "Ukraine To Develop New Air Defense Missile System". 2017-01-09. http://www.defenseworld.net/news/18159/Ukraine_To_Develop_New_Air_Defense_Missile_System#.WnrriOaYNrk. 
• "Ukraine completing development of its mobile Dnipro SAM launcher system". Defense Express. 2016-03-28. https://defence-ua.com/index.php/en/news/1051-ukraine-completing-development-of-its-mobile-dnipro-sam-launcher-system.