IDAS (missile)

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IDAS
ROKETSAN
Specifications
Length2,936 mm (115.6 in)
Diameter127 mm (5.0 in)
WarheadHE/Fragmentation
Enginesolid-fuel rocket
Operational
range
~ 40 km (25 mi)
Maximum speed 240 m/s (540 mph) "Lenkflugkörpersystem IDAS - Selbstverteidigung für U-Boote". www.bundeswehr.de. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
Guidance
system
fibre-optic guided
IDAS on the TechDemo'08 Exhibition, 2008

IDAS (Interactive Defence and Attack System for Submarines) is a medium-range

Type 212A submarine class of the German Navy.[2][3]

IDAS technology is based on the

HDW, which is a part of Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), to be fired from Type 212's torpedo tubes. IDAS will be fibre-optic guided and officially has a range of approx. 40 km.[4] Four missiles will fit in one torpedo tube, stored in a magazine. First deliveries of IDAS for the German Navy and operational service were planned from 2014 on.[5]

Except for a few years of testing by the Royal Navy and Israeli Navy of the short range TV guided Blowpipe (missile) in the 1970s[6] the IDAS system is the world's first missile which gives submarines the capability to engage air threats whilst submerged, and the first tube-launched missile that does not emerge in a capsule, but is fired directly from the torpedo tubes.

Alternatively, IDAS could be in theory fired from the Gabler Maschinenbau TRIPLE-M mast system, but, at least in the new Type 216 submarine currently under development, IDAS will be fired as normal from the torpedo tubes, while the Muraena will be the primary weapons option for its TRIPLE-M system.

In May 2013, the Turkish company

ROKETSAN and the German IDAS Consortium formed by Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and Diehl BGT Defence signed a cooperation agreement to develop and supply the submarine-launched IDAS (= Interactive Defence and Attack System for Submarines) missile[7]

References

  1. ^ "Roketsan, ThyssenKrupp and Diehl team up for IDAS missile programme". naval-technology.com. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  2. ^ "HNoMS Uredd first Norwegian submarine to fire IDAS missile". Naval Today. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  3. ^ "IDAS Missile System". naval-technology.com. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  4. ^ IDAS. The revolutionary multi-role weapon for submerged submarines (PDF) Archived 2013-12-06 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ "Diehl BGT Defence official website". Archived from the original on 2018-06-17. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
  6. ^ "WaffenHQ: Blowpipe". www.whq-forum.de. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Turkish company Roketsan joins IDAS common submarine missile project". Navyrecognition.com. Retrieved 2019-02-03.

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