"Air Demon": Israeli IAI announced a new "Air-Earth" rocket

The new rocket is equipped with a warhead weighing 20 kg and is able to strike up to 200 km. But its main advantage is the cheapness and, therefore, availability and ability to use in large quantities. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has introduced a new winged rocket class "Air-Tove" called Wind Demon. According to the developers, it is a light and inexpensive means of lesion designed to meet the growing market demand for effective and accessible systems for massacre.

This was reported on July 23 by Breaking Defense. "Weapons are a new generation of winged Air-Earth rockets, which combines new opportunities based on many years of experience in developing rockets and ammunition to defeat targets," said Vice Vice President Guy Bar Lev. The Wind Demon rocket weighs 140 kilograms and has a flight range of more than 200 kilometers. It can start from various air platforms such as helicopters or military planes.

The system contains laser guidance systems and electronic optics for day and night work, as well as the function of automatic goal recognition. IAI also noted that the system has "extended connection capabilities that allow you to transmit the video in real time, control the goal in the circuit and keep it at low altitude throughout the flight. " In addition, the chosen speed profile - fast/slow/fast - allows a high -speed reaction and selective approximation at low speed to points of interest.

A rocket warhead weighing more than 20 kilograms adapted for explosive, fragmental and penetrating influence. At the same time, Wind Demon is smaller than other well-known Israeli weapons, such as Popeye and Gabriel system, as well as recently presented SEA Breaker. The developers claim that the main advantage of a new rocket is its availability and the ability to use in large quantities. It is a pragmatic response to the changing nature of war, where a mass of ammunition can be available.