Concern Kalashnikov introduces the newest anti-aircraft missile system Krona-E to the international market

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Concern Kalashnikov introduces the newest anti-aircraft missile system Krona-E to the international market

The Kalashnikov concern has developed the latest anti-aircraft missile The Krona-E short-range missile system will be shown for the first time at the IDEX 2025 international arms and defense technology exhibition, which will be held this month in Abu Dhabi.

The concern provides little information about the SAM system itself, without providing technical data, but judging by the picture, it is something between the Strela-10 and the Pantsir, since it has launch containers for the 9M340 and 9M333 anti-aircraft guided missiles. The launcher itself is mounted on an armored personnel carrier.



As Kalashnikov emphasized, the main goals of the new Krona-E air defense system are: Drones middle class.

The Krona-E air defense missile system is designed to provide cover from air strikes to important government facilities, as well as city infrastructure facilities and those of special importance; special cargo in storage areas, and structures on strategic communications. The main targets of the system are enemy medium-class unmanned aerial vehicles.

- the concern says in a statement.

It is also explained that the Krona-E is not only the anti-aircraft installation itself, but a whole complex of detection and control systems, including several modules combined into a single system.
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  1. +38
    3 February 2025 12: 33
    Of course, I understand everything, business is important. But I would like to see these complexes not at the exhibition, but near the cities where the drones fly.
    Otherwise it looks strange. Well done, they created it. But for some reason they took it to the Arabs to show it, and not to Ryazan or Engels, for example.
    1. +4
      3 February 2025 12: 39
      The more you make a series, the cheaper it is per piece.
      If you make it for the army and for sale, then at least in theory it will be even cheaper for the army. But that's if production expands.
      1. +16
        3 February 2025 12: 41
        I understand this perfectly. But it is possible to put it on display, and somewhere to cover the cities. Then there is additional PR. Look, they shot down so many here.
        1. +1
          3 February 2025 12: 46
          As I understand it, this may not even be a prototype, but a mock-up.
          Or a prototype of 1-2 pieces.
          If something from the missile/software/control system is new, testing it in combat conditions can be fatal (what if it hits the wrong target? Or misses the target?).

          Besides, it may be designed for aviation and not drones. Then there is also little sense.
          Plus, judging by the photo, this is just a missile system without a gun.
          Not the best for SVO.
          This is to cover the column from the plane so that it doesn’t fly directly overhead, or to maliciously hunt for aircraft while driving around the area.
          1. +5
            3 February 2025 12: 48
            Well, it can be designed for aviation and not drones.

            They write about drones in plain text
            1. 0
              3 February 2025 12: 52
              Quote: ddmitrij
              They write about drones in plain text

              wassat I confess. Chukchi is not a reader, Chukchi is a writer.
              (I was just looking for the characteristics in the text and overlooked them)
              Again, 6+4 missiles is somehow not enough.
              I think they need a wheeled Shila in the kit.
        2. +3
          3 February 2025 14: 26
          Quote: ddmitrij
          Then there's additional PR. Look, they shot down so many here.

          Exactly! Look how the Turkish gravitsapa took off! Advertising is the engine of trade. And the best advertising is successful use in real battles.
        3. -5
          4 February 2025 12: 16
          ddmitrij(Dmitry), why doesn't such a simple thought occur to you that by selling one such installation abroad, we can (conditionally) make 3 installations for ourselves with the proceeds? This is an elementary principle of any international trade and there is always and everywhere a struggle for sales markets... Where did you skip political economy classes at the university?
          And why are you sure that, apart from the exhibition with the Arabs, all the other experimental installations will not go to the SVO?
      2. +5
        3 February 2025 12: 43
        Quote: Hitriy Zhuk
        If you make it for the army and for sale,

        Usually, however, they go up for sale with slightly different characteristics, so as not to reveal the technologies and tactics of fighting us.

        But of course, nothing contributes to sales as much as successful use on the fronts of the SVO. And the opposite is true, without real use, sales will be meager. sad
      3. +6
        3 February 2025 14: 17
        the more you make a series, the cheaper it is per piece.

        and now we have peacetime????
        to sell products "to the side"...
        1. +2
          3 February 2025 14: 35
          Quote: Dedok
          and now we have peacetime????

          Paradoxical.
          As if it were "not a war".
          But how would she.

          Trading with "dear partners".
          But there is a trade and economic war with them.
          (But in essence, they are the only ones who attack.)

          Some people warm their asses in Turkey (a NATO country and one of the largest armies of that gang, mind you), and some people volunteer for the front.

          So you can't understand it.
          But money is needed, and there are suspicions that Ukraine is just the tip of the iceberg.
          So if the sale allows the army to receive not 100 but 250 vehicles, it will be worth it.
          (and if the fantastic decision is to sell from reserves or to the detriment of the army - no)
          1. +3
            3 February 2025 23: 50
            Quote: Hitriy Zhuk
            So if the sale allows the army to receive not 100 but 250 vehicles, it will be worth it.

            And who, with what capacities, resources, what components, and with what hands will ultimately make these machines?
      4. +5
        3 February 2025 15: 59
        The more you make a series, the cheaper it is per piece.
        It seems to me that in our current situation, efficiency should be the determining factor, not price. Or at least the price/efficiency ratio, but that's if there's something to choose from. In general, this policy is not very clear: the country doesn't have enough air defense systems, and we're going to sell them.
      5. +3
        3 February 2025 17: 48
        Quote: Hitriy Zhuk
        The more you make a series, the cheaper it is per piece.
        If you make it for the army and for sale, then at least in theory it will be even cheaper for the army. But that's if production expands.

        The more the refinery burns, the higher the cost of fuel and lubricants. Taking into account the temporary cessation of the oil pumping station in Tverskoy for Ust-Luga (export terminal), even higher. By analogy with your example. Not to mention the reputational costs of the country and its air defense.
      6. +1
        3 February 2025 18: 44
        Do they also make machine guns there individually? And immediately offer them for export....
    2. +4
      3 February 2025 12: 52
      Well, the Kalashnikov concern cannot manufacture and deploy these systems all over the country. This is the job of the Ministry of Defense, it must order, pay for, decide where to deploy them, prepare calculations, and ensure combat duty. This is not a question for Kalashnikov at all.
    3. +8
      3 February 2025 13: 06
      Let's cover our cities, and Abu Dhabi can wait. This is the kind of news that irritates me the most, money is more important than the lives of citizens am
    4. -1
      3 February 2025 13: 17
      But I would like to see these complexes not at an exhibition, but near the cities.


      Before writing something like that, find out how the process is going, don't confuse people. First they look, evaluate the efficiency, negotiate, sign a purchase contract with delivery dates in, say, 2027.

      Now, if it had been written that Kalashnikov had started shipping, then yes, one could have been indignant.
    5. 0
      3 February 2025 13: 18
      Quote: ddmitrij
      For some reason they took it to the Arabs to show it, and not to Ryazan or Engels

      Why show a development that, apparently, has not yet been tested and is not being produced in Ryazan?
    6. AAK
      +14
      3 February 2025 13: 47
      What a shady project, they take the Sosna complex on the BTR-80 with 12 MD SAM launchers, remove 6 launchers and attach 4 launchers from the Strela-10 instead, plus 2 stationary mini-radars, and this is declared the latest "wonder weapon"?!!! The same Sosna is at least 15 years old, if not 20, and the Strela-10 is from the USSR, are they again taking us for characters from Mr. Lavrov's phrase? Well, it is also unclear on which chassis it is better to make the complex - on the BTR-80 or on the MTLB? In general, another shady crap from our military-industrial complex, and even for exhibitions instead of the fighting army...
      1. D16
        +3
        3 February 2025 14: 24
        In light of the Ukrainians' fascination with disposable UAVs with pulsejet engines that heat up to red-hot temperatures, the use of heat-seeking missiles seems rational. Especially if these missiles are in stock and are conditionally almost free.
      2. 0
        3 February 2025 18: 09
        This is an object air defense system, not an army one. The same as Pantsir. That's why it has wheels, not tracks. And it's greatly simplified and cheapened, specifically against UAVs. But it's based on an armored personnel carrier, not a Kamaz, apparently to cover a large number of warehouses with APFSDS, so that the crew can be protected from shrapnel.
        Everything is done right.
    7. +1
      3 February 2025 17: 14
      So the manufacturer doesn't mind.
      The customer decides.
    8. +2
      4 February 2025 03: 26
      War is a mother to some... Conditional Engels or Ryazan will not fill the family purse with money, but here the export is currency. Again, the price is different from what the state pays. In short, business and nothing personal
    9. +1
      4 February 2025 13: 28
      Well, this is an exhibition sample, if they are interested, then approvals, then signing a contract... and only then manufacturing. These complexes will not be in Ryazan or Engels, because they do not exist at all, they will appear in a couple of years.
    10. -1
      4 February 2025 14: 13
      Slightly different products are exported and are manufactured at different sites, there will be no problems and both domestic and foreign demand will be satisfied, and it is not really needed, with a short range of action
    11. 0
      4 February 2025 22: 21
      Who is the question for? The creators?
  2. 0
    3 February 2025 12: 37
    something between the Strela-10 and the Pantsir

    Well, if there are IR and controlled ones on the same machine, then it’s funny.
    Another thing is that in theory it is more difficult to shoot down an OLS/RADAR than an IR on a missile.
    BUT it is more important that the range is the same.
    In my opinion, the Strela has a lower range than the Pantsir.
    1. D16
      +1
      3 February 2025 14: 44
      To combat low-flying, relatively fast UAVs with a ramjet, the channeling and reaction speed play a more important role than the firing range. The Strela-10 seeker, if I remember correctly, locks on to the target before launch and can operate on the "release and forget" principle. This fixes the problem of the Sosna-Ptitselov with their laser-guided missile and the resulting weak channeling.
      1. -1
        3 February 2025 14: 49
        Well look.
        If the UAV is of the Orlan or Orion type (I confuse them).
        Well, like the one that can launch ATGMs.
        Its launch range will be approximately 5 kilometers (here and below the numbers are for illustration purposes).
        But this is an ATGM launch.
        If the range of an air defense missile is 10 km, it will fall off when it does not yet pose a threat to the air defense (and how could the range be greater?
        (the only thing is that the rocket is more expensive)
        1. D16
          +2
          3 February 2025 14: 59
          For shooting at a high-flying slow single target like the Orion UAV, Sosna missiles can be used. For shooting at low-flying kamikaze jet UAVs like Trembita, Strela missiles are more effective.
          1. 0
            3 February 2025 15: 04
            Quote: D16
            For shooting at a high-flying, slow, single target such as the Orion UAV, Sosny missiles can be used.

            Well, something like that, yes.

            Quote: D16
            For shooting at low-flying kamikaze UAVs like Trembita, the Strela missile is more effective.

            Only they fly towards warmth.
            Well, how come the target is not very hot (or there is something hot in the background)?
            And they (the missiles) are big, but the target is not very big.

            In theory, even a Mavic can be shot down if the sensor reacts and the auto-detonation is triggered. And if, in addition, the radar/OLS captures the target.
            (it seems that the "military acceptance" showed that the chrysanthemum sees quadcopters on the radar, that is, in theory, it is quite possible)
            But I think 30mm guns would be better suited there.
            1. D16
              0
              3 February 2025 21: 58
              Well, how come the target is not very hot (or there is something hot in the background)?

              IMHO the Ukrainians will switch to UAVs with a pulsejet. It is cheaper than an internal combustion engine, the speed is higher. But it heats up very much.
              And they (the missiles) are big, but the target is not very big.

              A kamikaze UAV with a warhead of about 30 kg and a fuel reserve cannot be small.
            2. +2
              3 February 2025 23: 49
              But I think 30mm guns would be better suited there.

              The size and cost of the shot is very important. There are not enough shotguns. That's for sure.
              As for me, it's high time to install small stationary airships with a platform on which 30 mm cannons with shot are installed along the perimeter of any oil refinery, nuclear power plant, military airfields. The detection height and UAV sighting are provided. Cheap and cheerful, no need for remote masts for radar.
              1. 0
                4 February 2025 13: 15
                Quote: nikon7717
                As for me, it’s high time to install small stationary airships with a platform on which 30 mm cannons with shot are placed along the perimeter of any oil refinery, nuclear power plant, or military airfield.

                Yes Yes Yes.
                Or better yet, stick a piece of Shilka/Tunguska in without armor/platform (and control it from a bunker).
                The only thing I suspect is that a rocket can burn through an airship, and a 30mm autocannon will send it flying to the side, hit a rope, and crash into the ground. laughing
                But if the engineers work on the issue, it’s quite possible.
  3. +7
    3 February 2025 12: 46
    While the SVO is going on, air defense systems should not be exported AT ALL. If there are hits on our territory, it means there are not enough air defense systems.
  4. +3
    3 February 2025 12: 48
    Why the international market? Have you already sated your troops?
  5. -2
    3 February 2025 12: 49
    2 types of missiles - right. A couple more guns, at least 23 mm...
  6. +5
    3 February 2025 12: 58
    By the way, it looks like an export and rethought Sosna.
    The second photo is 1 to 1 if the bottom row of missiles is changed.
    Upper\radar\optics are the same.
    The chassis is the same 82 BTR.
  7. -3
    3 February 2025 13: 01
    Voy... svo 4 years, and someone has international exhibitions.

    Pvo and for sale? Now? No comments
  8. +1
    3 February 2025 13: 05
    Something strange has been contrived. By what principle will the missiles be selected? And if this is for the deep rear, then why the APC?
    1. 0
      3 February 2025 14: 33
      They wrote that they would take it to an international exhibition, and they made the equipment for it
    2. 0
      3 February 2025 14: 52
      Quote from alexoff
      And if this is for deep rear areas, then why an armored personnel carrier?

      So that the saboteur doesn't shoot with a machine gun/pistol.

      Quote from alexoff
      On what principle will the missiles be selected?

      Well, in theory, the more maneuverable one is the self-guided one.
      Because it's harder to aim. So there should be instructions or a manual for combat use included.
      1. 0
        3 February 2025 18: 42
        Well, in theory, the more maneuverable one is the self-guided one.
        I don't know if there will be much time to figure out whether the target is maneuvering or not
        In general, people write that the missiles are not from the armor, but from pine, which was rolled out for a long time at parades and exhibitions, but no one saw it in the troops
        So that the saboteur doesn't shoot with a machine gun/pistol.
        For such air defense to protect the oil refinery, there should be at least three of them and they should be placed higher. A saboteur won't be able to shoot there
        1. -1
          4 February 2025 13: 19
          Quote from alexoff
          defended the refinery

          And if it's a city, you need to go skiing.
          And in general, you need to ride constantly, even if the refinery...
          Let's say the plane, the bastard, abandoned the KAB and went back.
          If the air defense is standing still and hasn't shot down the KAB - oh, that's it.
          Same with drones.
          And if the air defense is driving by, it will miss.
          Although it doesn't look like there's a radar for all-round surveillance (detection?). Well, that thing on top of Tunguska that's spinning wildly.
          And the one staring ahead is to point and follow.
          1. 0
            4 February 2025 14: 41
            Air defense can be towed. Towed by a tractor. Although we don't like to tow wheeled air defense systems either, and to place them in a certain position, everything needs to be according to regulations.
            As I understand it, this is a SOSNA air defense missile system, some of whose missiles were replaced with missiles from the Strela-10, i.e. only passive optical detection. Apparently, oil refineries are needed so that there are wastelands around.
  9. 0
    3 February 2025 13: 10
    Krona - our answer to the American Shorad?
  10. -1
    3 February 2025 13: 11
    If only the PU was enough to complete the tasks. Otherwise, they are just sorting through puzzle pieces.
  11. -1
    3 February 2025 13: 18
    It is also explained that the Krona-E is not only the anti-aircraft installation itself, but a whole complex of detection and control systems, including several modules combined into a single system.
    . A single system... within one given complex or all individual complexes will/can be united into a SINGLE COMPLEX, controlling the entire ZBD and adjacent territories?
  12. 0
    3 February 2025 13: 27
    There is very little information in the article.
    What kind of radar is this, and does it even exist?
    Arrow, thermal, how does it interact with UAVs?
    What about the guns?
    It's unclear.
    Is there electronic warfare?
    1. 0
      3 February 2025 18: 49
      What kind of radar is this, and does it even exist?

      There is definitely a radar, at least one of the tripods has an antenna with a phased array. Perhaps the launcher also has short-range antennas, and there are probably optical and IR channels. The antenna placement on the tripod is entirely justified - if an anti-radar missile arrives, it will only destroy the antenna, the APC and, most importantly, the crew will not be harmed. A cannon, machine gun or shotgun with automatic guidance, it seems to me, would not be superfluous in this system. Because without protection from FPV drones near the front, such a system will not survive long. It should only be used to protect oil refineries and airfields deep in the territory.
  13. 0
    3 February 2025 13: 36
    This is no good. Individual Active Defense Systems (ADS) are needed against drones, which, according to their tactical and economic parameters, can be installed for each armored vehicle. The basis of such an APS should be an automatic passive/active short-range radar and an automatic shotgun combined with it. Any attempt to use a more complex design will inevitably entail too high a cost and end in a dead end.
    1. D16
      +4
      3 February 2025 14: 13
      The complex is designed to destroy medium-class UAVs, not quadcopters. This is an object air defense system.
      1. -3
        3 February 2025 14: 16
        This is an object-based air defense system.
        I agree.
      2. +1
        3 February 2025 14: 56
        Object, and as an option for covering a long-range air defense system. Using an armored personnel carrier base is a luxury. A self-propelled vehicle with a minimum of equipment, a tarpaulin for cover and a plywood cabin for the crew will be enough. This is if there is a problem with the UAV. It seems that we do not have one, so we make it expensive and rich.
        1. +1
          3 February 2025 18: 13
          And what if we have to cover a small warehouse of BP, of which there are now a lot, and there is a massive drone attack with an overload of the complex? What will happen to the crew under the plywood?
          1. +1
            3 February 2025 20: 36
            Warehouses of the BP should be covered by military air defense, but we are talking about objects like oil refineries, substations and the like. There is no “drone swarming” there. In the photo there is only one installation, probably from a division, so there is no talk of overloading.
            1. 0
              3 February 2025 22: 40
              Every warehouse is different. There are all sorts. Air defense forces move with units. Warehouses not always or not often.
              1. 0
                4 February 2025 10: 18
                I agree that warehouses can be different, but it seems that life has taught both sides not to throw everything in one pile. In the photo is a launcher, there is no information about the guidance systems, judging by the missile armament it is designed to fight UAVs, and not small stuff. It does not even need to move, they dragged it, placed it, determined the firing sector and that's it. You need a lot of them, the simpler and cheaper, the better. And it is never too late to put it on an armored personnel carrier.
                1. 0
                  4 February 2025 12: 28
                  Guidance means in the picture. On the APC there is an optical-electronic complex and separately a Kamaz and remote radars. The Kamaz can be placed further away and therefore without armor.
                  1. 0
                    4 February 2025 16: 29
                    I read an article about this complex. In short, the range is up to 10 km, the guidance means are optical and IR. There are a couple of radars, but which ones are still a secret. The complex is not for the front, as the article says, it definitely does not need armor, as well as self-propelled missiles. The Kamaz, as it is written, is for testing missiles. It can also tow a trolley with a launcher. In terms of characteristics, it is close to the Sosna air defense missile system, I did not delve into it. Let them do whatever they want, as long as it is produced and works.
  14. 0
    3 February 2025 13: 39
    there is no information on the fact, I don't see the point in discussing the picture
  15. +3
    3 February 2025 14: 27
    What's new here? They just installed missiles on the transporter?
  16. +1
    3 February 2025 15: 06
    Quote: ddmitrij
    Of course, I understand everything, business is important. But I would like to see these complexes not at the exhibition, but near the cities where the drones fly.
    Otherwise it looks strange. Well done, they created it. But for some reason they took it to the Arabs to show it, and not to Ryazan or Engels, for example.

    Dear Sir... it's very simple, the army doesn't need this system at all, now they're sawing off money from the "People's Military-Industrial Complex", and the Kalashnikov concern is trying to make money, especially since they haven't shown anything new, they've cobbled together a hybrid of the Strela-10 SAM system with the Sosna SAM system, the Sosna was shown at the Army of the Year forum in 2015, and the Russian Ministry of Defense wasn't interested in this SAM system! request
  17. +2
    3 February 2025 15: 50
    Well, since it's a 9M333 SAM, the mention of "Strela-10" is understandable! But what does "Pantsir" have to do with it if it's a 9M340 SAM from "Sosna/Ptitselov"? request By the way, there was already a message that the 9M333 SAM has been modernized... perhaps it is worth talking about the 9M333M SAM for the aforementioned "Krona"! winked
  18. K_4
    +1
    3 February 2025 17: 05
    I just don't understand one thing: why don't they design a light analogue of the "Shilka" with small-caliber machine guns, specifically against drones. Specifically small-caliber guns, like the "Bloom" machine guns. Drones fly low, they don't need much power, they just throw "peas" at them like a wall. They could have made something based on the "shell".
  19. 0
    3 February 2025 18: 16
    This is something between the Strela-10 and the Pantsir, since it has launch containers for the 9M340 and 9M333 anti-aircraft guided missiles. The launcher itself is mounted on an armored personnel carrier.


    Isn't this the same Sosna SAM system, which instead of 12 Sosna-R SAMs had 4 missiles from the Strela SAM system suspended?
  20. -1
    3 February 2025 19: 59
    Better late than never. There is no small arms, perhaps this is an omission for this type of transport, or this APC is not intended for transporting soldiers, it was created as an emergency means for protecting enterprises.
    1. 0
      4 February 2025 13: 22
      The SAM system does not necessarily have to be based on an armored personnel carrier or MT-LB; for the protection of stationary objects, a trailer, a steel frame or a container inside which the launcher will be located and raised when necessary is quite sufficient...
      1. -1
        5 February 2025 00: 41
        It comes with a KAMAZ in the form of a radar, and the combat module can be placed essentially anywhere. There were tests in 20, but the army still hasn't got one.
        1. +1
          5 February 2025 16: 39
          If the SOSNA air defense missile system was taken as a basis, and judging by external signs this is the case, then no radar is required.
          An optical-electronic station with a thermal imaging channel is responsible for detection and target designation; it operates in passive mode, which significantly increases the chances of survival of the air defense system.
          All this equipment is placed directly on the launcher and no additional equipment is required.
  21. 0
    3 February 2025 21: 07
    Even this one complex could do quite a lot for our victory over the enemy, and if there were several related complexes, that would be really great. We'll win, then we'll sell off the samples, but as it is... I don't support selling them abroad.
  22. +3
    4 February 2025 10: 32
    Who needs you on the international market if you don’t supply to your own army?
  23. -1
    4 February 2025 17: 24
    In one year I was attacked by Ukrainian drones five times.
    Enterprise protection (I won't specify) - two Gazelles with machine guns (conscripts, I think, according to rumors). Zero use. I hear gunfire, I see tracers, and drones - they fly, let's say, and I see the result, unfortunately.
    Next. Well, let's say they hit this drone - well, it will explode not at THEIR place, but at US. Or at a neighboring enterprise - and there are people working there too.
    Doesn't it really occur to the leaders that they need to "shoot" on the APPROACH to the city, and not at the actual protected facility?!
    And yes, a week ago a ricochet from a machine gun whistled over my head and hit a gas station about twenty meters away.

    ...and now, it follows that OUR missiles will be showered with shrapnel at the very least?
    1. 0
      5 February 2025 16: 48
      In most regions, territorial defense regiments and brigades should be formed, one of the main tasks of which should be the fight against UAVs.
      To detect UAVs, they decided to follow the Ukrainian path and place networks of acoustic sensors in areas of possible drone attacks.
      To destroy drones, all available means must be used: MANPADS, ZU-23, machine guns and automatic weapons on turrets, hunter drones, fighters with hunting rifles equipped with special ammunition.
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  25. 0
    5 February 2025 06: 54
    There is a missing four-barrel Yakb 12,7 machine gun for close range. feel