PALMA System is intended to protect against all types of aerial threats including anti-ship missiles flying at low and ultra-low altitudes at close-in defensive line.
PALMA System is intended to protect against all types of aerial threats including anti-ship missiles flying at low and ultra-low altitudes at close-in defensive line.
• combined armament consisting of specially developed high-speed precision-guided laser beam riding missiles SOSNA-R and two rapid fire guns AO-18КD. This combination provides for a layered air defense against the adversary’s air attack weapons in the area of responsibility of the system
• SAM’s payload is of optimal configuration. The weapon’s effectiveness has been raised by increasing the weight of its separated warheads and by using a contact sensing-proximity fuse producing a continuous circular beam and featuring the adaptive initiation time
• specially designed rounds with hard-core tracer bullets made from TNI alloy providing for the assured initiation of the antiship missile warhead
• original multichannel automatic all-weather day / night optronic control system of high precision
• combined missile control system:
- radio command system comes into operation at a boost stage
- beam riding mode is activated when the rocket motor is separated and the missile is gathered into the sight-line
• high jamming immunity achieved due to the use of protected narrow-beam optronic channels to acquire and track the target, measure its range and guide the missile onto it
• autonomous target tracking by use of automatic optronic control system with sector coverage and automatic target designation mode
• automatic and semiautomatic target designation modes
Main qualities
• high firing capacity together with short flight time and high shooting velocity of gun system
• high effectiveness of combat application including high-speed and low-flying targets
• complete automation of combat processes
• quick response capability (from target detection to fire opening)
• capability of combat processes in all-weather day/night conditions
• concealed preparation of fire and high survivability
• radar and optical countermeasure equipment immunity
| Аrmament: | |
| missile | eight SAM Sosna-R |
| missile weight at launch / in container, kg | 30 / 42 |
| maximum velocity, m/s | 900 |
| gun | two AO-18КD guns |
| caliber, mm | 30 |
| firing rate, shorts per minute | 10 000 |
| ammunition | HVAP-T; HEF-I, F-T |
| engagement zones, km | |
| in range / in altitude | |
| missile | up to 10.0 / up to 5.0 |
| gun | up to 4.0 / up to 3.0 |
| ammunition load, pcs | |
| SAM | 8 |
| projectiles | 1 000 |
| weight with ammunition load, kg | 7 200 |
