The Bamse air defense missile system was developed by Saab Bofors Dynamics to protect both fixed and mobile assets from a variety of aerial threats. It uses the Giraffe AMB radar system and solid-fuel rocket propulsion to engage targets from over 15km away and up to an altitude of 15,000m. A typical firing battery consists of a surveillance coordination center and up to four missile control centers, which can deploy in under ten minutes.

1. Bamse Air Defence Missile
System, Sweden

2. CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
DEVELOPMENT
FIRING BATTERY
CONTROL
SYSTEM

3. INTRODUCTION
 Saab Bofors Dynamics' Bamse all-weather, all-target, air defence
missile system is deployed to protect fixed and mobile assets.
 It can be used against a range of threats including fixed and
rotary-wing aircraft, unmanned aircraft, stand-off missiles, cruise
and anti-radiation missiles and guided bombs.
 Bamse is effective against very small and very fast targets such
as air-to-surface attack missiles.
 The system has all-weather capability and a target range that
exceeds the stand-off distance of electro-optically controlled
weapons. T
 he system provides a target range of more than 15km and
coverage to an altitude up to 15,000m.

5. DEVELOPMENT
 Bofors (later to become Saab Bofors) and Ericsson (now Saab)
Microwave Systems completed the project definition phase in
1991 and the engineering development programme began in
1992.
 In 1993 the Swedish Government placed a contract on the then
Bofors Missiles and Ericsson to carry out the full-scale
development of the Bamse system.
 In May 2008, the first production system was delivered and the
Swedish Armed Forces trained their first unit and brought the
system into operation in late 2008.

7. FIRING BATTERY
 The Bamse firing battery includes a surveillance coordination
centre and three missile control centres.
 The missile control centres are towed to position by a cross-
country vehicle, which also carries a store of missiles for
reloading.
 The system can be deployed and prepared for firing in less
than ten minutes.

9. CONTROL
 The Giraffe AMB uses a 'stacked beam' antenna arrangement, with one
wide beam for transmission and multiple narrow beams for simultaneous
reception.
 This provides a target update rate of one a second, with elevation
coverage of more than 70°.
 The IFF transmit and receive units are mounted on the radar antenna.
 One surveillance coordination centre can coordinate up to four missile
control centres.
 The distance between the surveillance control centre and the missile
control centres is typically 10km, and between missiles control centres,
20km.

11. SYSTEM
 The radar command-to-line-of-sight (CLOS) missile uses solid propellant
booster and sustainer rocket motors, which give the missile high
acceleration and high maintained velocity.
 Nammo supplies the sustainer rocket motor and components for the
booster motor.
 The missile has a range of more than 15km and covers altitudes to 15,000m.
 The missile has high manoeuvrability, even at the outer range limit.
 The fragmentation and shaped charge warhead is equipped with a
proximity fuse and an impact fuse.

13. REFERNCE
http://www.army-
technology.com/pr
ojects/bamse/

14. THANK YOU