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As for the RSE Kriens/Micon missile system, which is far less known than its predecessor by Oerlikon, it is quite interesting what guidance system it actually used.

Available sources are no so clear. English Wikipedia says "Beam control" that suggers that the missile rode up a radar beam (as Oerlikons did). German Wikipedia (which is probably a bit better informed) says "Kommando-Zieldeckungs-Lenkverfahren", which sounds quite similar to "command guidance", and http://waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de says (in German!) "Commandbeamrider" (see: http://waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de/missiles/sam/ch_micon.html).

So was it a beam-rider system? Taken into consideration that it was developed in the early 1960s it seems rather strange that the Swiss used a system that was already considered rather obsolete at that time.

It's intriguing what the waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de says on the system:

Translation by Google:

Does anyone here know more on that?

BR
Piotr

<blockquote data-quote="Petrus" data-source="post: 525132" data-attributes="member: 341">As for the RSE Kriens/Micon missile system, which is far less known than its predecessor by Oerlikon, it is quite interesting what guidance system it actually used. Available sources are no so clear. English Wikipedia says &quot;Beam control&quot; that suggers that the missile rode up a radar beam (as Oerlikons did). German Wikipedia (which is probably a bit better informed) says &quot;Kommando-Zieldeckungs-Lenkverfahren&quot;, which sounds quite similar to &quot;command guidance&quot;, and <a href="http://waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de" target="_blank">http://waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de</a> says (in German!) &quot;Commandbeamrider&quot; (see: <a href="http://waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de/missiles/sam/ch_micon.html" target="_blank">http://waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de/missiles/sam/ch_micon.html</a>).So was it a beam-rider system? Taken into consideration that it was developed in the early 1960s it seems rather strange that the Swiss used a system that was already considered rather obsolete at that time.It's intriguing what the waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de says on the system:Translation by Google:Does anyone here know more on that?BRPiotr</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Petrus, post: 525132, member: 341"] As for the RSE Kriens/Micon missile system, which is far less known than its predecessor by Oerlikon, it is quite interesting what guidance system it actually used. Available sources are no so clear. English Wikipedia says "Beam control" that suggers that the missile rode up a radar beam (as Oerlikons did). German Wikipedia (which is probably a bit better informed) says "Kommando-Zieldeckungs-Lenkverfahren", which sounds quite similar to "command guidance", and [URL]http://waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de[/URL] says (in German!) "Commandbeamrider" (see: [URL]http://waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de/missiles/sam/ch_micon.html[/URL]). So was it a beam-rider system? Taken into consideration that it was developed in the early 1960s it seems rather strange that the Swiss used a system that was already considered rather obsolete at that time. It's intriguing what the waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de says on the system: Translation by Google: Does anyone here know more on that? BR Piotr [/QUOTE]

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