Eryx (original) (raw)
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Eryx is a Short Range Anti-Armour Weapon (Heavy) or SRAAW(H). It is a portable system including the firing post, the tripod, the Mirabel thermal imager and the missile tube. It provides the infantry section and the armoured reconnaissance assault troop with an improved capability in accuracy and penetration. Fired from the shoulder or using the tripod, Eryx can defeat all modern static or moving tanks. With its tandem high explosive warhead, it is effective against bunkers, earth works, and armour targets even when equipped with explosive reactive armour (ERA). Eryx can operate in all weather conditions, in normal battlefield smoke and at night. Its high flexibility allows it to operate in open ground, wooded zones or an enclosed space in built-up areas. It can be transported in most Canadian combat vehicles. A practice inert missile is also available for training.
Basic training is conducted by using the Eryx video interactive gunnery simulator (EVIGS). The Eryx precision gunnery simulator (EPGS) is another simulator used for advanced training.
Crew
1 gunner and 1 loader
Characteristics
| Calibre missile: main warhead: | 137.4 mm 136 mm |
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| Warhead: | Tandem shaped charges high explosive (HE) |
| Weight firing post: tripod: thermal imager: missile tube: in tactical container: | 5 kg 5 kg 3.5 kg 12.5 kg |
| Range: | 50 m to 600 m |
| Time of flight to maximum range: | 4.3 seconds |
| Guidance: | optically tracked, single wire semi-automatic command to line of sight |
| Control: | thrust vector controlled |
| Missile velocity at launch: at 600 m: | 18 m/s 245 m/s |
| Rate of fire: | 5 missiles in two minutes |
| Operating conditions: | -31�C to +51�C |
| Sights: | optical and thermal imagery |
Manufacturers
| Eryx: Mirabel thermal imager: EVIGS: EPGS: | Aerospatiale, France TCO/Asaca, Montreal, Canada Simtran, Montreal, Canada Lockheed Martin Solartron Systems, United Kingdom |
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