![]() As the missile slowly rotates the launch units send signals commanding the correction by one of the two vanes to move against the missile motors thrust. The missile is guided in flight by two vanes located at mid body which act against the main rocket motors thrust. Unlike most wire guided antitank missiles the Eryx is propelled at a relative low speed of approximately 240 meters per second at its maximum range. similar to the US BGM-71 TOW antitank missile). The main rocket motor is located at mid-body with two exhausts in the side (e.g. After the missile coasts a safe distance the main sustainer motor ignites and burns until impacting the target or it reaches its maximum range of 600 meters. The missile is ejected from its launch tube using a very low powered short burn rocket motor located in the tail.The launching motor completes its burn before leaving the container, protecting the gunner from being burned. The system was demonstrated for a potential Middle Eastern customer in October 2009. The enhanced Eryx also includes a new training simulator. MBDA asserts that the new sight is quieter, reduces weight, increases battery life, and provides a detection range greater than the missile's own maximum range. The new system features a new, non-cooled thermal sight which uses a bolometric sensor. In 2007 MBDA provided funding for the development of an enhanced Eryx system. The Canadian government opted not to participate in the improvement program because it did not meet the new requirements of the Canadian Forces, and conflicted with an ongoing replacement project. MBDA approached the Canadian government twice, once in 2005, and again in 2006, with a proposal to develop an improved version of the Eryx which would see an improved range, sight, and anti-armour capabilities as a way of extending the Eryx's service life. Canadian industries, including Simtran and Solartron Systems, also produced the Eryx Interactive Gunnery Simulator (EVIGS) and the Eryx Precision Gunnery Simulator (EPGS). AlliedSignal Aerospace Canada Inc has been developed the Mirabel thermal imager for the ERYX firing post. In 1989, France and Canada signed a joint venture to co-produce the ERYX missile. The concept firing post (See: ACCP image) used a scaled down version of the MILAN tracking and guidance system, but was found in field condition tests to be impractical both from a technical and cost standpoint. The first prototype was delivered to the French Ministry of Defense for testing in 1982. The weapon system that AĆ©rospatiale offered was basically a mini-short range wire guided antitank missile, the ACCP (Anti Char Courte Portee) which in French translates to Short Range Anti-tank Weapon System. AĆ©rospatiale, the French defense and aerospace firm, believed it was, from a practical standpoint, impossible to design an unguided antitank rocket that could meet the strict requirements. ![]() The requirement was for a cost effective antitank weapon that could defeat any known or future main battle tank at range maximum range of 600 meters with considerable accuracy, including on windy days. The Eryx began as a project in the late 1970s by the French Ministry of defense to replace the short range Luchaire's LRAC F1 STRIM 89mm rocket launcher in the French Army. ![]()
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