CILAS to Qualify and Supply the Krasnopol Shells for the French DGA

CILAS to Qualify and Supply the Krasnopol Shells for the French DGA

(Source: CILAS; issued April 14, 2006)

ORLEANS — Expert in laser technologies for 40 years and specialist in designation systems, CILAS has been recently awarded by the French DGA (Délégation Générale pour l’Armement) a contract for the qualification of the KBP KRASNOPOL shells with its weapon system, and the supply of ammunition.

Operational for many years, the CILAS DHY 307 Ground Laser Designator has proven its efficiency during the field operations carried out by French and foreign forces. Thanks to the compatibility of the DHY 307 with the only laser guided shells available on the market, CILAS provides the artillery regiments with a surgical strike capability, at low cost, easy to deploy and to maintain.

Guided weapons indeed offer the advantage of ensuring damage at first shooting, with an important probability to destroy the target, and thus tremendously reducing the quantity of ammunition. The fire precision dramatically reduces the collateral damages, high priority criterion as the armed forces have more and more to deal with struggles in urban zone, for example during the events in Lebanon and more recently in Kosovo.

The DHY 307 is a general-purpose laser designator. Intended to be used by a small unit on the ground, it provides high accuracy guidance for all kinds of ammunition: missiles, bombs or artillery shells equipped with a laser homing head on a specific tactical target. The DHY307 is flexible, it is fully programmable and can address any type of illumination code.

The KBP Instrument Design Bureau State Unitary Enterprise is one of the leading design companies in the Russian defense industry. It has developed over 130 models of weapons and military equipment, which were put into series production and introduced in service with the Russian Army. KBP today represents one of the highest-capacity research and production center in the field of precision-guided weapons.

For 40 years CILAS (Compagnie Industrielle des LASers) is a leading company in the sector of high technologies owing to its unique expertise in Europe as regards lasers; CILAS develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of optronic equipments, for the defence sector and major scientific and industrial programs.