Dnipro is Ukrainian prospective surface-to-air missile of middle range. It was supposed to be mounted on Volodymyr Velykyi-class corvettes.

The designer, Ukroboronservice, also developed the land-platform variant for this missiles.

On December 1, 2016, a message about successful launches of cruise missiles Neptune and anti-aircraft missiles Dnipro at a training range in the southern of Ukraine was posted.^[1]

Tactical and technical characteristics

• The maximum detection range of a target type of a tactical fighter:
  • at an altitude of 7 km - not less than 150 km;
  • at an altitude of 0,15 km - not less than 50 km;
  • at an altitude of 0.02 km - not less than 28 km;
• Range of steady escort of tactical fighter - 120 km;
• Minimum height of target damage is 0.015 km;
• Maximum defeat height of the target is 25 km;
• Time of preparation (inclusion) of the complex for combat work - no more than 4 minutes.

Producers

Medium range SAM "Dnipro" is a product of joint venture of Ukrainian defense enterprises:

• Iskra SPC (multipurpose radar missile launching station) — Zaporizhia;
• SPP Aerotehnics-MLT (the station of combat control) — Kyiv;
• Luch Design Bureau (rockets) — Kyiv;
• DP LINDRTI (GSN developer) — Lviv;
• KrAZ (chassis) — Kremenchuk.
• Ukroboronservice (General project management)