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  AbsCnC model of the Pechora -deployed, Firing (booster jettisoned) & transit. |
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The IKA use
deployable missile batteries to defend bases and
strategic positions. A typical system is Pechora, which
has a rotary launcher and magazine mounted on the back of
a utility truck. The system is completely autominous
requiring simply a driver/engineer and commander. The missile has a good maximum range but suffers from a minimum range restriction due to it's booster launch. The booster is necessary because the missiles motor is too week to launch itself in high gravity and dense atmospheres -having originally been designed for launch from star-ships in space. The chassis (speeder lorry shown) can be varied but for balancing, it will have poor mobility. The missile can fire at ground targets although with limited range. Like the more advanced IKA SAM-Crawler, the system has a slow rate of fire. The unit is intended to develop booster-jettisoning ('spawning') and the booster will actually remain on the battlefield as wreckage. It will also be a deploying unit. The missiles will actually be separate weapons (duplicated) to give smoother barrel-offset maths. The two missiles will appear identical but actually have different guidance algorithms. One will vector in a straight line predicting the line of flight of the target whilst the other will vector on a constantly updated angle (in effect a curving approach). Both have their merits and it will lend variation to the unit.
An alturnitive model has the launcher mounted on a truck. |
