Tartar SM1
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| Tartar SM1 | |
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| Function | medium range surface-air anti-aircraft and anti-missile missile |
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| Engine | double thrust powder |
| Launch mass | 520 kg |
| Length | 4.75 m |
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| Range | 50 km |
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The Tartar SM1 is a US-built medium-range anti-aircraft missile system. It is composed by a vertical rotating magazine holding 40 missiles, a Mk1 launcher, 2 SPG 51C firing radars and one DRBJ11 tridimentional radar.
It was mounted on the Fleet escorters of the French Navy Kersaint, Bouvet, Du Chayla and Dupetit-Thouars fleet escorts, and is now in use on the Cassard and Jean Bart.
The US-built Tartar missile is an important element of zone defence (here, launched from a US destroyer of the Perry class)
