Skyranger 30

Rheinmetall’s modular, unmanned 30 mm gun-missile turret — NATO’s emerging standard for mobile short-range air defense against drones, loitering munitions and low-flying aircraft, rapidly adopted across five European armies.

Overview

The Skyranger 30 is a remotely-operated, platform-agnostic turret that combines a 30 mm revolver cannon with the option of short-range surface-to-air missiles, mated to wheeled or tracked armored vehicles. Developed by Rheinmetall Air Defence AG (formerly Oerlikon), it is purpose-built to defeat Class I–II unmanned aerial systems, loitering munitions and low-flying fixed-wing threats, filling the short-range air-defense gap that most European armies created when they retired legacy systems such as the Gepard. Rheinmetall describes it as the core effector of Germany’s NNbS (Nah- und Nächstbereichsschutz) program.

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