Kentron. (News).
Kentron's Umkhonto-IR air defence missile has marked its first
penetration in the European Union with a contract from the Finnish Navy.
Value and number of systems involved were not disclosed, but the South
African anti-ship missile killers are intended to be installed onboard
the service's Squadron 2000 ships. The lock-on-after-launch
Umkhonto is a vertically launched version of the Sahv-3
command-to-line-of-sight air defence missile, but fitted with a variant
of the air-to-air U-Darter's infrared seeker.
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