Skyshield
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This article is about the Swiss SHORAD system. For the North American air defence exercises, see Operation Skyshield. For the Israeli jammer, see Skyshield (jammer).
Skyshield air-defence system is a modular, light weight, short range air defense (SHORAD) system developed by the Swiss corporation Oerlikon Contraves (now a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany). The successor to the Skyguard defense system, Skyshield is intended to rapidly acquire and destroy threatening aircraft and missiles, as well as to fulfill a C-RAM role.[1]