The MANTIS system is intended to detect, track and shoot down incoming projectiles before they can reach their target within very close range. The system itself is based on Oerlikon Contraves' Skyshield air defence gun system.

Jan 11, 2021 · The NBS MANTIS short-range force protection system is designed to detect, track and shoot the projectiles within a close range of the target base. The MANTIS represents an important part of the Bundeswehr Army’s comprehensive future SysFla air-defence programme.

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The MANTIS Air Defence System is a 35mm fully automated C-RAM system, produced by Rheinmetall based on Oerlikon's Skyshield. It has been in use by the Luftwaffe from 2011.

61 Surface-to-Air Missile Group’s MANTIS (Modular, Automatic and Network capable Targeting and Interception System) air defense system in the Raab Barracks in Mautern an der Donau, Austria, during a large-scale exercise.

Nov 7, 2017 · It is produced by Rheinmetall Air Defense, a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany. It is a part of the army's future SysFla air-defense project.

MANTIS is based on tried-and-tested Oerlikon Skyshield air defence technology. It is designed to protect military installations and critical civilian infrastructure from aerial threats coming in at low altitude, including manned and unmanned aircraft.

Feb 10, 2023 · Germany will give Bratislava two sets of the MANTIS air defense system to protect Slovakia’s eastern border with Ukraine, the Slovak defense ministry said Thursday. “Slovakia will receive the systems free of charge and permanently,” the ministry spokeswoman Martina Kakascikova told AFP.

MANTIS Air Defence System (Modular, Automatic and Network Capable Targeting and Interception System), formerly titled NBS-C-RAM (German: Nächstbereichschutzsystem Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar), is a very short range air defence protection system of the German Air Force, intended for base-protection.

Oct 27, 2023 · The Slovak Armed Forces has received two MANTIS air defense systems from Germany in a ceremony in Nitra, southwest Slovakia to boost its ground-based border security. The 110 million euro ($116 million) systems, part of the German Air Force’s SysFla air defense initiative, were handed over to Bratislava “free of charge” to help the ...