Air defense
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The emergence and development of ballistic missiles has led to the need to create defense systems against them. Already in the mid-fifties, work began in our country to study the subject of missile defense, which by the beginning of the next decade led to the successful solution of the task
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On March 4, 1961, the Soviet V-1000 interceptor missile, for the first time in the world, intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile warhead. By the early 1950s, the nuclear bomb had already become the main weapon and the main factor in world politics. In the Soviet Union, the first successes were achieved in
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In 2016, the Ground Forces will receive the complexes "TOR-M2" and "BUK-M3". Meanwhile, one of the founders of the modern Aerospace Forces had an anniversary - a hundred years from the day
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This year, as well as last year, the Russian Armed Forces will receive a new generation of portable anti-aircraft missile systems (MANPADS) "Verba". This unique product was developed by specialists of the Kolomna JSC NPK Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering, which is a part of NPO High-Precision
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It has always been and will always be so: if someone somewhere has something new, then others immediately strive to get the same. So our anti-aircraft missile system "Tunguska" did not leave anyone indifferent abroad, and it immediately became clear that our potential adversaries have nothing similar
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Recently, in the news, MANPADS are often remembered, as a rule "Strela-2" or Igla ". But very few people understand what this thing is all about, so I will briefly tell you about the device of such devices. So, at first, banal things. Such MANPADS have homing a rocket, not a rocket
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The range of 300 million kilometers is not the limit. The 15th Army of the Aerospace Forces (Special Purpose) includes the Main Center for Missile Attack Warning, the Main Center for Space Situation Intelligence, and the Main Testing Space Center named after G. S. Titov. Consider the technical tasks
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The photo shows the main elements of the next generation Buk-M3 military anti-aircraft missile system: a transport and launcher for 12 TPKs with 9M317M - 9A316M missiles (left), a 9S18M3 Kupol X-range radar detector (center) and a self-propelled fire launcher 9A317M with 6-channel radar
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Optical-location sighting system ZRAK "Pantsir-S1" (and later "Pantsir-M") with a thermal imaging module (right) and an optoelectronic unit (left). This element is the basis for the immunity of the "Pantsir" family: functioning in most spectra of visible optical and infrared
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2017 will mark exactly 50 years since the adoption by the US Navy of the most popular anti-aircraft guided missile for shipborne air defense systems in the West - RIM-66A "Standard-1" (SM-1). The aerodynamically perfect product at that time gave rise to a whole family of SAM "Standard"
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The photo shows the launch of the anti-aircraft version of the AIM-9X "Sidewinder" air-to-air missile, carried out from the MML (Multi-Mission Launcher) in the USA on March 29, 2016. A few days earlier, a test launch of the FIM-92 missile defense system was carried out. In this case, before you is the "extended" version of the oblique
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On the rear of the turret of the Tor-M2U self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system, a radar station for detecting air targets with an isodal-partial method of forming a radiation pattern with a frequency change is installed, which forces the enemy's electronic warfare to put active barrage interference with
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The focus of military-political tension is narrowing more and more every day on the strategically important Black Sea region, over which the United States and the entire North Atlantic alliance are trying to maintain control by any means. This region has become one of the main items on the agenda of the recent Warsaw Summit
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The unique qualities of the newest electronic warfare system "Pole-21", which is being deployed today on the basis of base stations and antenna-mast systems of cellular mobile operators in Russia, we examined in one of our August articles. Weakly directional radiating antennas of complexes
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Medium-range air-to-air missiles of the R-77 (RVV-AE) family, according to officially published data, are adapted to intercept any type of tactical missile, including enemy air combat missiles
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The main "firing" elements of the S-300V / VM / V4 anti-aircraft missile system (from left to right): 9A83M launcher with target illumination radar on a lifting mast for 9M83M missiles, 9A82M launcher with RPN for 9M82M long-range missiles, 6-channel radar missile guidance with 9S32M HEADLIGHTS
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In the pre-war years, the control of air defense fighter aviation (air defense IA) and the organization of its interaction with other branches of the armed forces, including anti-aircraft artillery, were, to put it mildly, not up to the mark. Combat orders were given to aviation units, often without information about the tasks of anti-aircraft
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The active development of strike systems in the fifties of the last century forced the designers of the leading countries to create means of protection against enemy aircraft and missiles. In 1950, the development of the Berkut air defense system began, which later received the C-25 index. This system was supposed to protect Moscow, and
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A-135 "Cupid" In 1972, the USSR and the United States signed an agreement on the limitation of anti-missile defense systems. In accordance with this document, the countries had the right to build only two missile defense systems: to protect the capital and the positions of strategic missiles. In 1974, an additional protocol was signed, according to
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"Outer space control system", SKKP is a special strategic system, the main task of which is to monitor the artificial satellites of our planet, as well as other space objects. It is an integral part of the Aerospace Defense Forces. According to the official
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It is clear that the representatives of the air defense. It so happened that it turned out that it turned out to visit the qualifying stage of the international competition "Keys to the Sky", in which participants were selected for the final, which will be held within the framework of the International Army Games from July 30 to August 13, 2016 on the territory of the Ashuluk training ground in
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“My plane was hit so suddenly that the attack warning system did not even have time to go off. I don’t remember how the catapult lever pulled …”Captain Ken Dvili recalled how on March 27, 1999 his“invisible”F-117A was shot down near the village of Budanovci near Belgrade
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The TOR-M2E anti-aircraft missile system is a representative of a new generation of Russian short-range air defense weapons. Designed to repel massive air attacks, the air defense system is capable of hitting any target. At a distance of up to 12 kilometers, he can destroy an aircraft
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The annual practical firing of air defense units takes place at the Ashuluk Astrakhan training ground. The missilemen of the Kola air defense formation in a matter of minutes repelled an air attack of ballistic and cruise missiles of the imaginary enemy. In the language of military missilemen, such exercises are called
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For the first time in combat training, the calculations of the S-300V anti-aircraft missile systems were able to hit targets that imitated operational-tactical ballistic missiles, the head of the anti-aircraft missile forces (ZRV) of the Air Force, Major General Sergei, told reporters on Friday in Moscow
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Tehran is conducting fire tests of its own air defense missiles, which correspond in their characteristics to the Russian S-300. The weapon was created in connection with the cancellation of the contract for the supply of S-300 to the Islamic Republic, reports on Wednesday Iranian state-owned television channel Press TV with
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The Belarusian Research and Production Private Unitary Enterprise (UP) "Tetraedr" in October this year held demonstration firing of the modernized combat vehicle T381 of the mobile short-range air defense system T38 Stilett at the Domanovo range, Janes Missiles and Rockets reports
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Air defense missile systems have always been and remain among the leaders of the most advanced intelligent, high-tech and, accordingly, expensive types of military equipment. Therefore, the possibility of their creation and production, as well as the possession of advanced technologies at the industrial level, the availability of
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The S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system was put into service on April 28, 2007 by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. In 2007, the Red Banner Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment was the first in the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to re-equip with this air defense system. A corresponding
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The first production copy of the Akash anti-aircraft complex is a very important event in ensuring the defense capability of India. Many experts believe that underdeveloped air defenses represent the greatest security vulnerability for the country as a whole
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The experience gained by the end of the 1950s in the operation of the first anti-aircraft missile systems showed that they were of little use to combat low-flying targets. This became especially clear when experiments began to overcome air defense systems by aircraft at low altitude. In this regard, in a number of countries
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Today, Russia does not see systemic measures to create new airspace protection systems, said Leonid Ivashov, President of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems
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At the September firing at the Kapustin Yar range, the Buk-M2E anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) demonstrated 100% effectiveness. He hit five targets with five shots. This was announced by the press secretary of the commander of the North Caucasus Military District, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Bobrun. Shooting
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In Russia, a unified air defense system is being created on the basis of the operational-strategic command (OSK). The decision, apparently, will be made in May. Recently, our freelance correspondent visited one of the usual, as they say, average air defense regiments, which in the future
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New, promising S-500 air defense systems (anti-aircraft missile systems), the main feature of which is the ability to shoot down targets in space, will soon enter service with the Moscow aerospace defense complex. General Valery Ivanov, Commander of the Troops
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Defense Minister A. Serdyukov, answering questions from State Duma deputies, said that Russia is developing its own missile defense system. A reasonable question arises: "Does Russia have the capabilities and means to create a truly combat-ready missile defense system?" Let's look back a little and see how in the USSR
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The Ukrainian company "Arsenal" together with the German "Rheinmetall Defense" have created a new modern mobile anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) ASGLA. This complex was developed on the basis of the Igla air defense system and the German ASRAD-2 and is designed to protect important strategic objects located on the ground, and
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The most combat air defense system: C-75 air defense system Country: USSR Adopted: 1957 Rocket type: 13D Maximum target destruction range: 29-34 km Target hitting 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 internal
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The S-300V anti-aircraft missile system ((9K81) was created for the defense of groupings of troops and the most important military and civilian objects from massive strikes of tactical ballistic missiles (such as "Lance", "Pershing"), aeroballistic (such as SRAM) and cruise missiles
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Israel, after months of delays, has deployed the first battery of its own missile defense system, called the Iron Dome. The system went on alert near the city of Beer Sheva in the south of the country. Currently, the Israeli army has two batteries of this missile defense system, the second of which is planned to be delivered