The most combat air defense system: the C-75 air defense system
Country: USSR
Introduced into service: 1957
Rocket type: 13D
Maximum target destruction range: 29-34 km
Target speed: 1500 km / h
John McCain, who lost the last US presidential election to Barack Obama, is known as an active critic of Russian foreign and domestic policy. It is likely that one of the explanations for such an irreconcilable position of the senator lies in the achievements of Soviet designers half a century ago. On October 23, 1967, during the bombing of Hanoi, the plane of a young pilot, who came from the family of hereditary admirals John McCain, was shot down. His "Phantom" took out an anti-aircraft guided missile of the S-75 complex. The Soviet anti-aircraft sword by that time had already caused a lot of trouble for the Americans and their allies. The first "test of the pen" took place in China in 1959, when the local air defense, with the help of "Soviet comrades", interrupted the flight of a Taiwanese high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft based on the British Canberra bomber. The hopes that the red air defense would be too tough for the more progressive air reconnaissance aircraft, the Lockheed U-2, were also not destined to come true. One of them was shot down with the help of the C-75 over the Urals in 1961, and the other - a year later over Cuba. On account of the legendary anti-aircraft missile, created in the Fakel ICB, many other targets hit in various conflicts from the Far and Middle East to the Caribbean Sea, and the S-75 complex itself was destined to have a long life in various modifications. We can safely say that this air defense system has gained fame as the most widespread in the world of all air defense systems of this type.
Most High-Tech Missile Defense System: Aegis System
Rocket SM-3
Country: USA
first start: 2001
Length: 6.55 m
Steps: 3
Range: 500 km
The height of the affected area: 250 km
The main element of this shipborne multifunctional combat information and control system is the AN / SPY radar with four 4MW flat HEADLIGHTS. The Aegis is armed with SM-2 and SM-3 missiles (the latter with the ability to intercept ballistic missiles) with a kinetic or fragmentation warhead. The SM-3 is constantly being modified, and the Block IIA model has already been announced, which will be capable of intercepting ICBMs. On February 21, 2008, the SM-3 rocket was fired from the cruiser Lake Erie in the Pacific Ocean and hit the emergency reconnaissance satellite USA-193, located at an altitude of 247 kilometers, moving at a speed of 27,300 km / h.
The newest Russian air defense missile system: the Pantsir S-1 air defense missile system
Country Russia
put into service: 2008
Radar: 1RS1-1E and 1RS2 based on the phased array
Range: 18 km
Ammunition: 12 57E6-E missiles
Artillery armament: 30-mm coaxial anti-aircraft machine gun
The complex is designed for close cover of civil and military objects (including long-range air defense systems) from all modern and promising air attack weapons. It can also protect the defended object from ground and surface threats. Aerial targets include all targets with a minimum reflective surface with speeds up to 1000 m / s, a maximum range of 20,000 m and an altitude of up to 15,000 m, including helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles and precision bombs.
The most nuclear anti-missile: 51T6 Azov transatmospheric interceptor
Country: USSR-Russia
First start: 1979
Length: 19.8 m
Steps: 2
Launch weight: 45 t
Firing range: 350-500 km
Warhead power: 0.55 Mt
The 51T6 (Azov) anti-missile missile, which was part of the second-generation missile defense system around Moscow (A-135), was developed at the Fakel ICB in 1971-1990. Its tasks included the transatmospheric interception of enemy warheads with the help of an oncoming nuclear explosion. Serial production and deployment of "Azov" was carried out already in the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR. Currently, the missile has been removed from service.
The most efficient portable air defense system: Igla-S MANPADS
Country Russia
developed: 2002
MANPADS "Igla-S"
Range of destruction: 6000 m
The height of the defeat: 3500 m
Target speed: 400 m / s
Weight in firing position: 19 kg
According to many experts, the Russian anti-aircraft system, designed to defeat low-flying air targets of various types in conditions of natural (background) and artificial thermal interference, surpasses all analogues existing in the world.
Closest to our borders: Patriot PAC-3 air defense system
Country: USA
first start: 1994
Missile length: 4, 826 m
Missile weight: 316 kg
Warhead weight: 24 kg
Target hitting altitude: up to 20 km
The Patriot PAC-3 air defense system, created in the 1990s, is designed to combat missiles with a range of up to 1000 km. During the test on March 15, 1999, a target missile, which was the 2nd and 3rd stages of the Minuteman-2 ICBM, was destroyed by a direct hit. After the rejection of the idea of the third position area of the American strategic missile defense in Europe, Patriot PAC-3 batteries are deployed in Eastern Europe.
Most common anti-aircraft gun: 20 mm Oerlicon anti-aircraft gun
Country: Germany - Switzerland
Designed: 1914
Caliber: 20 mm
Rate of fire: 300-450 rds / min
Range: 3-4 km
The history of the automatic 20-mm anti-aircraft gun "Oerlikon", also known as the "Becker cannon", is the story of one extremely successful design that spread throughout the world and is used to this day, despite the fact that the first example of this weapon was created by the German designer Reinhold Becker during the First World War. The high rate of fire was achieved due to the original mechanism, in which the shock ignition of the capsule was carried out even before the end of the chambering of the cartridge. Due to the fact that the rights to the German invention were transferred to SEMAG from neutral Switzerland, both the Axis countries and the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition produced their versions of the Erlikons during World War II.
Best WWII anti-aircraft gun: Anti-aircraft gun 8, 8 cm Flugabwehrkanone (FlAK)
Country: Germany
Year: 1918/1936/1937
Caliber: 88 mm
Rate of fire:
15–20 rounds / min
Barrel length: 4.98 m
Maximum effective ceiling: 8000 m
Projectile weight: 9, 24 kg
One of the best anti-aircraft guns in history, better known as the "eight-eight", was in service from 1933 to 1945. It turned out to be so successful that it became the basis for a whole family of artillery systems, including anti-tank and field ones. In addition, the anti-aircraft gun served as a prototype for the Tiger tank guns.
The most promising air defense-missile defense system: the S-400 "Triumph" air defense missile system
Country Russia
Designed: 1999
Target detection range: 600 km
Number of simultaneously tracked target tracks: up to 300 km
Range of defeat:
Aerodynamic targets - 5-60 km
Ballistic targets - 3–240 km
Height of defeat: 10 m - 27 km
Designed to destroy jamming aircraft, radar detection and control aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, strategic and tactical aircraft, tactical, operational-tactical ballistic missiles, medium-range ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets and other modern and promising air attack weapons.
The most versatile anti-missile defense system: S-300VM "Antey-2500"
Country: USSR
Designed: 1988
Range of defeat:
Aerodynamic targets - 200 km
Ballistic targets - up to 40 km
Height of defeat: 25m - 30 km
The mobile universal anti-missile and anti-aircraft system S-300VM "Antey-2500" belongs to a new generation of anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems (PRO-PSO). Antey-2500 is the only universal missile defense and air defense system in the world capable of effectively fighting both ballistic missiles with launch ranges up to 2500 km and all types of aerodynamic and aeroballistic targets. The Antey-2500 system is capable of simultaneously firing at 24 aerodynamic targets, including inconspicuous objects, or 16 ballistic missiles flying at speeds up to 4500 m / s.
