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Fixed-Site Weapons and Military Equipment

Browse 6 weapon systems and military equipment entries tagged Fixed-Site, grouped by category with images, specifications, conflict context, and sources.

6 weapon systems

Fixed Site LIDS (FS-LIDS), Fixed-site counter-UAS system, Air Defense

Air DefenseFixed Site LIDS (FS-LIDS)Fixed-site counter-UAS systemSide: UnknownBuilt: SRC Inc. / Raytheon / Northrop Grumman / United StatesFixed Site LIDS (FS-LIDS) is the U.S. Army's fixed-site Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System, built to protect bases and other static sites from small drones. SRC's brochure and CENTCOM reporting show a layered architecture that combines sensors, command and control, electronic warfare, and Coyote interceptors in a fixed-site counter-UAS stack.

Fixed-site Coyote launcher, Fixed-site launcher for Coyote interceptors, Air Defense

Air DefenseFixed-site Coyote launcherFixed-site launcher for Coyote interceptorsSide: UnknownBuilt: Raytheon / United StatesThe fixed-site Coyote launcher is the static-site launch component for Raytheon's Coyote counter-UAS interceptors in the U.S. Army's LIDS architecture. SRC describes Coyote as launched from fixed-site launcher systems, Army AL&T identifies a fixed-site Coyote Block 2 launcher, and Army acquisition reporting places Coyote inside fixed-site LIDS as the radar-guided kinetic defeat element.

Iranian anti-aircraft artillery, Gun-based short-range air defense artillery, Air Defense

Air DefenseIranian anti-aircraft artilleryGun-based short-range air defense artillerySide: IranBuilt: Iranian defense industry / KBP Instrument Design Bureau / Oerlikon Contraves / Iran, Soviet Union/Russia, SwitzerlandIranian anti-aircraft artillery is an aggregate category for gun-based air-defense systems in Iranian service, including ZU-23-2 and Mesbah 23 mm weapons, Oerlikon-derived 35 mm Samavat guns, and older heavy-caliber systems. The record is most directly documented in the 1988 Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988, where a Sassan platform 23 mm gun mount engaged U.S. forces, and in the United States-Iran Conflict 2020-present, where ZU-23-2-type guns appeared as low-altitude point-defense threats and strike targets.

PIRANHA 5T stationary anti-drone complex, Stationary anti-drone jammer, Electronic Warfare

Electronic WarfarePIRANHA 5T stationary anti-drone complexStationary anti-drone jammerSide: UkraineBuilt: Piranha Tech / UkrainePIRANHA 5T is Piranha Tech's stationary anti-drone jammer for protecting high-risk sites and fixed positions. Official materials describe a five-channel Ukrainian system with directional interference, tripod or mechanized-tripod mounting, configurable frequency bands, and cataloged wartime use by Ukraine's Defense Forces.

PIRANHA SPR UAV counter system, Stationary counter-UAV EW system, Electronic Warfare

Electronic WarfarePIRANHA SPR UAV counter systemStationary counter-UAV EW systemSide: UkraineBuilt: Piranha Tech / UkrainePIRANHA SPR is a Ukrainian stationary counter-UAV electronic-warfare system from Piranha Tech. Official materials describe a directional jammer that can work with external cueing, automatically orient antennas, and suppress UAV links across selected frequency bands.

Fixed launch facility, Fixed silo launcher, Support Equipment

Support EquipmentFixed launch facilityFixed silo launcherSide: UnknownBuilt: Not publicly identified / IranThe fixed launch facility is a static ballistic-missile launch site named in a 2026 MDAA issue brief as an alternative launch platform for the Burkan-3/Zolfaghar extended-range MRBM line. The same brief contrasts fixed launch sites with road-mobile transporter-erector-launchers and says fixed launchers are more vulnerable to detection and attack.