MBDA SPADA 2000

Spada 2000 is an all-weather ground-based air defence system from MBDA for protecting sensitive sites such as air bases, ports, industrial plants and important buildings. It fires the Aspide 2000 semi-active missile, whose intercept coverage of 20 kilometres is meant to stop aircraft releasing airborne weapons from short range, and it has been proven in all weather conditions and in electronic countermeasure environments. A detection centre provides tactical operational control, and the system is transportable by truck, train or aircraft, being fully compatible with the C-130. It can integrate and coordinate up to ten additional very short range air defence systems and anti-air artillery within 10 kilometres of the detection centre and can be connected to a higher-level air defence architecture. It is an improved version of the earlier Italian Spada system.