Saab completes smoke testing of LEDS: Saab has completed smoke testing of its third generation High Speed Direct...

Saab completes smoke testing of LEDS

Saab completes smoke testing of LEDS: Saab has completed smoke testing of its third generation High Speed Direct...

Saab has completed smoke testing of its third generation High Speed Directed Launcher (HSDL-306) system, part of its Land Electronic Defence System (LEDS), in a bid to improve its offerings for ground vehicles and anti-tank weapon defence systems. The testing was conducted in the middle of March 2012 in Centurion, South Africa, and involved the deployment of a GALIX 13 multispectral smoke grenade launcher in a combination of coverage angles and different dispensing sequences. The HSDL was mounted aboard a Mowag Piranha Protected Mobility Vehicle (PMV) variant during testing to assess integration design and monitoring aspects such as recoil and power consumption reduction. Developed as a joint effort between Curtiss-Wright and Saab Avitronics, the next-generation launcher offers reduction in power consumption, size and weight and future design flexibility in terms of differ...

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