The Crotale is a French, all-weather, SHORAD surface-to-air missile system developed to intercept airborne ranged weapons and aircraft, from cruise or anti-ship missiles to helicopters, UAVs or low-fl
Crotale NG at the Paris Air Show, 2007
Crotale missile launchers of the French Air Force.
Crotale R440 launchers aboard the frigate Tourville
Stealth casing of the La Fayette-class frigate Surcouf.
The Roland is a Franco-German mobile short-range surface-to-air missile system. The Roland was also purchased by the U.S. Army as one of very few foreign SAM systems.
Crotale (missile)
…data from other systems, data from optical surveillance and from the general aerial picture from the national air defence communications system. Roland missile (Franco-German surface-to-air missile) LFK NG (the cancelled surface-to-air missile of the German Army…
White Sands Missile Range Museum Roland display
Abortive U.S. Army version of Roland, mounted on its purpose-designed XM975 vehicle (single prototype built, the production vehicle if the program had proceeded would have been designated as the M975).
A Roland 2 missile system on the Marder 1 tracked chassis seen under camouflage netting during exercise in 1985.