Hello,
I am desperately looking for pictures of the shore-based Sea Skua launcher, aka Sea Skua Coastal Defence battery.
British Aerospace Dynamics Division revealed in 1988 that it was studying the feasibility of developing a new land based Coastal Defense Battery variant of the Sea Skua missile. The Coastal Defense Battery is a further development of the ship-launched Sea Skua. The land-based battery used a four-ton truck carrying four canister launchers (probably similar to those to be used on the shipborne version). The vehicle also housed the target acquisition radar and launch control cabin, mounted on top of the system's generator. Radar options included the BAE Systems Seaspray Mk 3, which was already in service on British Royal Navy and Korean Navy Lynx helicopters, and the Thales (formerly MEL) Super Searcher, which had the advantages of a lower personnel requirement and greater mobility. The radar antenna was mounted on a folding mast. Eight or 10 of those single-fire units (having four ready to-fire missiles), under the direction of a single battery command post, could form a sector defense system. Alternatively, individual launch units or pairs could be deployed to control chokepoints.
It has been sold to Kuwait, supposedly.
Gambit