Denel Aerospace Systems

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Denel Aerospace Systems

Type	division of proprietary limited company
Founded	1991
Headquarters	Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
Area served	world wide
Industry	weapons development and manufacturing
Products	guided missiles,glide bombs
Parent	Denel (Pty) Ltd (100% state-owned)
Website	http://www.kentron.co.za
previously Kentron a division of Denel (Pty) Ltd

[edit] History

Denel Aerospace Systems is a division of Denel (Pty) Ltd, a South African armaments development and manufacturing company wholly owned by the South African Government. Formerly known as Kentron, it underwent the name change during the early part of 2004. Denel Aerospace Systems is situated in Centurion, South Africa.

[edit] Key Products

The main product areas in which Denel Aerospace Systems is involved are:

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs)
Guided missiles (Air-to-Air, Air-to-Ground, Surface-to-Air, anti-armour)
Guided bombs
Missile seekers and weapons management systems

Key products in the Denel Aerospace Systems line-up include the following:

The Seeker and Bateleur UAVs; the short-range IR-guided A-Darter and the Beyond Visual Range (BVR) radar-guided R-Darter air-to-air missiles; the Umkhonto surface-to-air missile; the Mokopa and Ingwe anti-armour missiles; the Skua high-speed target drone; the Raptor guided TV bomb and Umbane GPS/INS guidance kit for Mk.82, Mk.83 and Mk.84 bombs. In addition to this it has developed the Kemva optical seeker head for stand-off weapons, the Arachnida weapons management system and the AH-2 Rooivalk attack helicopter.