Thank you WadeArmstrong and also Peter for the information on this weapon. This weapon doesn't seem to have any automatic loading, Manual loading must be slow in reloading. Thanks and regards

Published by the builder. Matra was selected as the prime contractor to develop the Mistral in 1980. Matra became Matra BAE Dynamics, which is now MBDA. MBDA is the company formed by the merging of missile and missile systems activities of Matra BAE Dynamics, Aerospatiale Matra (EADS) and Alenia Marconi Systems.

"The fully autonomous 'fire and forget' Mistral 2 missile is equipped with a two-stage solid propellant rocket motor designed and developed by Snecma Propulsion Solide based in Paris, using EURENCO (formerly SNPE) propellant charges.

The missile is armed with a 3kg high-explosive warhead loaded with tungsten ball projectiles. The warheads, supplied by Manufacture de Machines du Haut Rhin SA, based in Mulhouse, France, are equipped with a contact fuse, a laser proximity fuse and a time delay self-destruct device.

Guidance is by passive infrared homing using an indium arsenide detector array operating in the three to five micron waveband, which was developed by SAT, now Safran (the merger of SAGEM and Snecma), in Paris. The detector array is housed in a low-drag transparent hexagonal pyramid shaped nose cone.

Compared to any other low-level air defence missile, Mistral is more reliable and successful. It has a success rate of 93%."
Regards Peter

This is the Matra Simbad twin missile launcher equipped with two Mistral short range (6 km) Air-to-Air missiles.