Skyshield
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.35|A pair of Indonesian Air Force BAE Hawk 209 flying over a Skyshield revolver gun Mark 2, with a Fire Control Unit in the background, at Supadio AFB thumb|upright=1.35|Ammunition used by the Skyshield: AHEAD, Training, and Dummy roundsSkyshield is a modular, light weight, short range air defense (SHORAD) system developed by the Swiss corporation Oerlikon Contraves, now a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany. The successor to the Skyguard official system, Skyshield is intended to rapidly acquire and destroy threatening aircraft and missiles, and to fulfill a C-RAM role.
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thumb|upright=1.35|A pair of Indonesian Air Force BAE Hawk 209 flying over a Skyshield revolver gun Mark 2, with a Fire Control Unit in the background, at Supadio AFB thumb|upright=1.35|Ammunition used by the Skyshield: AHEAD, Training, and Dummy roundsSkyshield is a modular, light weight, short range air defense (SHORAD) system developed by the Swiss corporation Oerlikon Contraves, now a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany. The successor to the Skyguard official system, Skyshield is intended to rapidly acquire and destroy threatening aircraft and missiles, and to fulfill a C-RAM role.
== Design ==