Trigat missile family

[uk 75]

Back in the Cold War the France, Germsny and the UK embarked on an ambitious programne to produce a family of third generation anti tank missiles. The only survivor is the long range helicopter launched version
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARS_3_LR.
Like the SP70 gun and RS80 (described in other threads) Trigat seemed a sensible idea. For the UK it would have replaced Milan, Swingfire and TOW.
Does anyone know a good account of what went wrong?

 

[timmymagic]

Sure it will only get you part of the way there but Think Defence had a piece on Javelin that had some excerpts on the NAO report on Trigat MR. Looks like delivery was still uncertain, costs rising and with a rapidly approaching OSD for Milan the MoD jumped ship and went to Javelin. Which you have to say sounds better with its Top Attack profile and fire and forget guidance system.

https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/uk-complex-weapons/javelin-anti-tank-guided-weapon-atgw/
IIRC PARS 3 LR is about the most expensive AT missile out by a country mile, the UK made a good move to go with Hellfire, particularly with the numbers fired in Afghanistan. It's also led to the eventual adoption of Brimstone, so for UK industry could turn out to be a very wise move.

 

[uk 75]

Thanks for this. Very clear.

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7ELXO7nA8

 

[Grey Havoc]

Giraffe tank version of Challenger I. Armed with the TRIGAT LR missile. The cannon in the weapons/sensor pod may be the British version of the Bushmaster II cannon, firing 30 x 170 mm RARDEN ammunition.
(h/t Jazz and Jemiba)

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAlmENh9VEs

 

[Voltzz]

Some images of Trigat MR (Pars 3 MR) mock ups including a quadruple launcher on Fuchs

 

[Voltzz]

Articles (in German) on both the TRIGAT MR and TRIGAT LR

 

[Voltzz]

In the early 2010s, the Bundeswehr was interested in longer range NLOS variants of the PARS LR. Two such variants were proposed by MBDA: PARS SAL and PARS BACK IMAGE.
Ground launched versions of PARS SAL were investigated for the JFS-M program. (Post about it in the JFS-M thread)
I have also found a picture of a vertical launch system for PARS SAL presented by MBDA at a trade show, but i cant find any more information on it.

 

[Voltzz]

I have also found a picture of a vertical launch system for PARS SAL presented by MBDA at a trade show, but i cant find any more information on it.

Found a render of the vertical launch system on the site of a company that builds expo models/stands for MBDA Germany

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a9qCBmCHkqk