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    The Mistral is a portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile manufactured by MBDA. It began development in 1974 and was initially deployed in 1988. The Mistral missile is used in man-portable launch units and vehicle/ship/helicopter mounted launch units. It has been deployed by 37 militaries around the world and has seen combat use, including shooting down a Zimbabwean fighter jet in 1999.

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    The Mistral is a portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile manufactured by MBDA. It began development in 1974 and was initially deployed in 1988. The Mistral missile is used in man-portable launch units and vehicle/ship/helicopter mounted launch units. It has been deployed by 37 militaries around the world and has seen combat use, including shooting down a Zimbabwean fighter jet in 1999.

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    The Mistral is a portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile manufactured by MBDA. It began development in 1974 and was initially deployed in 1988. The Mistral missile is used in man-portable launch units and vehicle/ship/helicopter mounted launch units. It has been deployed by 37 militaries around the world and has seen combat use, including shooting down a Zimbabwean fighter jet in 1999.

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    Mistral is an infrared homing MANPADS missile system manufactured by MBDA. It began development in 1974 and was initially deployed in 1988 and 1997 for updated versions. It has a range of up to 6km and can be launched from man-portable launchers or vehicles like trucks, ships, and helicopters.

    Mistral is an infrared homing surface-to-air missile. It is 1.86m long with a 90mm diameter. It has a 2.95kg warhead and travels at supersonic speeds of around Mach 2.6. It uses proportional navigation and has an infrared seeker with a narrow field of view to track targets.

    The basic Mistral missile can be launched from a man-portable launcher. There are also launchers that allow firing from armored vehicles, ships, and helicopters like the Aérospatiale Gazelle, Denel Rooivalk, and Eurocopter Tiger.

    Mistral

    Mistral mounted on a truck platform of the 54th Artillery Regiment


    Type Manportable surface-to-air missile
    Place of origin France
    Service history
    In service 1988–present
    Used by See Operators
    Wars Second Congo War
    Production history
    Designer MBDA
    Manufacturer MBDA
    Specifications
    Length 1.86 m
    Diameter 90 mm
    Crew 1

    Effective firing range up to 6 km


    Warhead High Explosive with high density tungsten
    balls
    Warhead weight 2.95 kg
    Detonation Laser proximity or impact triggered
    mechanism

    Engine Solid Rocket Motor


    Speed 800 m/s, approx. Mach 2.6 (high
    supersonic)
    Guidance Infrared homing
    system
    Mistral is an infrared homing MANPADS manufactured by the European multinational
    company MBDA missile systems (formerly by Matra BAe Dynamics). Based on the French
    SATCP (Sol-Air À Très Courte Portée), the portable missile later to become the Mistral began
    development in 1974. It was initially deployed in 1988 for the first version (S1) and 1997 for the
    second version (M2).

    Weapon platforms
    The basic Mistral missile is used with a man-portablelaunch unit. There are also launch units that
    allow the missile to be fired from armoured vehicles, ships or helicopters (such as
    the Aérospatiale Gazelle, Denel Rooivalk, or Eurocopter Tiger). To reject the flares ejected from
    the rear of the targeted aircraft, proportional navigation using a gyro as a reference is adopted for
    Mistral, instead of the pursuit method in earlier IR-guided MANPADS. To further enhance
    the ECCM capability, the seeker of Mistral has a very narrow field of view to reject decoys and
    interference, but the seeker can tilt in the range of +/− 38 degrees. On the launcher, the missile
    runs up the gyro in 2 seconds, and total reaction time is 5 seconds. The all-aspect two-color (2–4
    and 3–5 µm) cooled IR-seeker of Mistral is developed by SAT, and the missile adopts both laser
    proximity and impact fuzes.
    A close-in weapon system based on Mistral is a six-missile version called Sadral, with a
    stabilized rapid-reload launcher that is fully automated. A CSEE developed fire control director
    is integrated to the launcher, consisted of TV camera and FLIR. Image produced by both
    directors appear on the screen in the operator console below deck, and the missiles are locked
    onto the target before being launched. A fully loaded Sadral launcher weighs 1080 kg, and the
    operator console weighs 280 kg. A two-missile unit installed on ships is called Simbad, and a
    newly launched four-missile version is called Tetral. An evolution of the Simbad is now
    proposed: Simbad RC. Both Tetral and Simbad RC are remote controlled from the ship's deck
    while the original Simbad is manually operated with a simple optical sight.


    Mounted system on an ACMAT truck of the 54th Artillery regiment


    Simbad missile defense system


    Sadral missile defense system on the Dupleix
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    Inventory
    Mistral entered series production in 1989 and is now deployed by 37 armed forces of 25
    countries (eight countries in Europe, eight in the Asia-Pacific, five in South America, three in the
    Middle East), including Austria, Belgium, the Brazilian Marine Corps,
    Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Morocco, New
    Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, and Venezuela.

    Combat history
    Mistral missiles used by the Rwandan forces in the Second Congo War shot down a
    Zimbabwean Air Force BAE Hawk fighter on March 23, 1999. [1]

    Submarine Air Defence Weapon


    On 26 September 2012 DCNS at the company's Le Mourillon plant announced plans to design
    and build a submarine canister-based air defence weapon based on the Mistral. The concept is
    similar to the British Submarine Launched Airflight Missile developed by Vickers in the 1970s
    and tested on HMS Aeneas and three boats of the Gal-class. [2]

    SIMBAD-RC
    SIMBAD-RC is a naval remote controlled turret using Mistral missiles developed by MBDA. [3]

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