ALAS(Advanced Light Attack System) is new Serbian missile system developed by private company EdePro and sponsored by Yugoimport SDPR. New system is developed for attacs on the ground targets such as tanks, command posts, industrial targets, ships, low flying helicopters,... It can be used by helicopters, armoured vehicles, small ships and infantry. The main advance of this system is precision. The ALAS has combinited TV/IC guidance, which can not be jammed. Missile is tied with fiber-optic cable guided from the ground. Man decide what target will be attacked, not a computer. That is very important in reducing of collateral damage. Based on its own several-years long research in the field of development of jet propulsion group (devel- opment of the TMM-040 MUNGOOSE turbojet engine), long engineering experience in the design of aeronauti- cal and rocket systems, as well as on the following of the latest world trends in the field of the unmanned systems for different applications. The ALAS system itself is cat- egorized as a tactical infantry support system, whose main component is the modern guided missile with its own propulsion. The ALAS system is intended for battlefield isolation and for combat against armored vehicles on medium and long ranges (up to 25 km), as well as for engagement of important spot targets in the depth of the enemy territory. Additionally, the ALAS system is a mul- timodal system. Autonomous guidance on fixed targets, active guidance on selected targets, and the free search of the field, with the selection of the desired target. The multimode function of this system is reflected in the pos- sibility to change the priority targets in the course of the mission (based on the decision of the operator), and the possibility of maneuvering in the zone of action, of change of the kind and type of the warhead, depending on the type of the target, which is based on a high level of mod- ularity of warhead section, as well as on the possibility to choose the programmed trajectory, based on input of the data on the known target, and trajectory parameters, by inputting data into the memory of the on-board flight computer before the execution of the mission. The ALAS system possesses a modern TV subsystem for search, tar- get acquisition and guidance, while the command signals from the ground, as well as the TV subsystem picture from the missile, are trans- mitted through an optic cable to the ground station. The ALAS system is envisaged to be able to operate as an inde- pendent defensive/offensive system: in anti-armor com- bat, anti-ship combat, as well as against static targets. The ALAS system is easy to inte- grate into larger units, and it shows its full strength and efficiency in coordinated action with networked recon- naissance systems, which feed it with the necessary data on target locations.
ALAS flies at very low attitude and has very small radar and IC reflexion. Missile use turbofan motor instead turbojet motor. ALAS system can be use like UAV.
New system will start to enter Serbian army from 2008.

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