Vertical Launch Mica
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 2012
Total Production : ?
Model | Status | Year | Produced |
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Vertical Launch Mica | Active | 2012 | ? |
Vertical Launch Mica
Group : Area Air Defenses
Status : Active
Also Known As : VL Mica
Origin : France,
United Kingdom
Contractor : MBDA
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 2012
Total Production : ?
The Vertical Launch Mica is a modular short range air defense system which fires the two Mica missiles types (IR and RF). It is intended against simultaneously multiple attacks of aircraft and missiles adding the advantage of employing and fire and forget missile. The Vertical Launch Mica can face the most severe IRCM-ECM scenarios (Infrared Countermeasures and Electronic Countermeasures). The Vertical Launch Mica has been developed to meet the requirements of land and naval military forces.
The Vertical Launch Mica land-based consists of a Tactical Operations Centre (TOC), a 3D radar and 3 to 6 Mica launchers. All the items are mounted on separate vehicles. Each Mica Launcher accommodates 4 Mica IR/RF missiles. The TOC is interconnected to the 3D radar via optical fiber and to the Mica Launchers via UHF communications. The mobile land-based VLM provides air defense against aircraft, UAV, helicopters and standoff weapons for maneuver military forces.
On 22 December 2005, the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) awarded MBDA a contract in support of VL Mica air defense system fielding. The French Air Force, Army and Navy would deploy Vertical Launch Mica medium-range, ground- and ship-based air defense system.
News
Sagem (Safran) has signed a contract with European missile manufacturer MBDA to integrate SIGMA 30 navigation and pointing systems on several VL MICA surface-to-air weapon

At the beginning of December 2014, MBDA delivered the first PCP (Platoon Command Post) and IMCP (Improved Missile Control Post) air defence command and control (C2) systems

On 24 September 2012, the Royal Guard of Oman (RGO) successfully carried out the first operational firing of a VL MICA missile.
While the first VL MICA naval surface-to-air defence systems are being delivered to customers, the production of VL MICA land systems for an export customer is in full swing

In a scenario representing the protection of a sensitive zone against weapons launched from a secure distance, VL MICA has once again demonstrated the high level of its operational

At the IDEX 2011 exhibition in Abu Dhabi, MBDA is revealing an addition to its air defence range by presenting for the first time a new combination of systems to coordinate
On 1st July 2009, Antoine Bouvier and Edward Nowak, the Chief Executive Officers of MBDA and the BUMAR group of Poland respectively, met in France to sign a framework agreement
Deployed for the first time in a ground-to-air, area defence configuration, VL MICA has intercepted a low signature target flying just a few metres above the surface of the sea.

Following an international competition launched in 2007, the VL MICA short-range air defence system, in its ground-based configuration, has won its first export customer order.
On 24th April 2006, MBDA successfully carried out a test firing of the VL MICA air defence missile system from a naval launcher at the French DGA’s (Délégation Générale
The French DGA (Délégation Générale pour l’Armement) announced a highly significant contract as a first step towards the introduction of MBDA's VL MICA medium-range air
Vertical Launch Mica air defense system has logged another success with the successful intercept and destruction of a small drone flying at low altitude.
Photo Gallery
December 2006

Mica Vertical Launch
Notes
State Latest Known holdings/Original Procurement
Com - Date of Commissioning
Decom - Date of Decommissioning
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