MBDA LFK NG

LFK NG, short for New Generation Guided Missile, was a short-range surface-to-air missile system that MBDA Germany and Diehl Defence developed for the German Army to replace its Roland air defence systems and to supplement the Ozelot systems in the army's SysFla air defence programme. It was a variant of the IRIS-T missile. Its highly sensitive infrared seeker was meant to find targets with a very low infrared signature, such as other missiles and unmanned aircraft as well as aircraft and helicopters, and a penetrator warhead was to engage semi-armoured targets such as gunship helicopters. The missile was to launch vertically from stationary platforms, trucks or armoured vehicles such as the GTK Boxer and the Ozelot, or horizontally from helicopters such as the Tiger. It measured 1.8 metres long and 110 millimetres in calibre, with a range of 10 kilometres. The project was cancelled around 2011, though the seeker was largely adopted by IRIS-T.