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Russian VSHORADS Thread
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Sosna on top of Bumerang
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Sosna AND 1l122 L-band radar which has a range of 80km against planes.
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This is going to be important.
The protection level is actually rather good, but the mobility and low cost operation of a wheeled vehicle is something that is important too, and the reason for the delay of the introduction is to extend the missile range to 20km or so from the original range of 10km is going to make this a rather potent missile system.
It uses laser beam riding guidance so DIRCMS are not effective, it has very high missile speed so re-engagement time is very good, and while it clearly sports a radar it can operate just fine without it.
The radar means it can see targets and pass that target information to other platforms to detect and engage optically, with rather cheap missiles that don't have expensive bits like IIR seekers or ARH seekers and the chassis, unlike the wheeled BTR, has a rear ramp door and rear mounted troop compartment that could be filled with stacked replacement missiles.
It could be complimented with a version with a turret with a 30mm cannon and a version with the 2S38 57mm air defence cannon too.
An excellent convoy support and air defence vehicle that is cheap to use and cheap to operate... with a vehicle with the BTR-82A turret with a single 30mm cannon with air burst ammo they would be ideal for dealing with drone threats too.... tiny short range drones with 30mm cannon and high flying larger drones with stand off weapons with these Pine missiles....
The protection level is actually rather good, but the mobility and low cost operation of a wheeled vehicle is something that is important too, and the reason for the delay of the introduction is to extend the missile range to 20km or so from the original range of 10km is going to make this a rather potent missile system.
It uses laser beam riding guidance so DIRCMS are not effective, it has very high missile speed so re-engagement time is very good, and while it clearly sports a radar it can operate just fine without it.
The radar means it can see targets and pass that target information to other platforms to detect and engage optically, with rather cheap missiles that don't have expensive bits like IIR seekers or ARH seekers and the chassis, unlike the wheeled BTR, has a rear ramp door and rear mounted troop compartment that could be filled with stacked replacement missiles.
It could be complimented with a version with a turret with a 30mm cannon and a version with the 2S38 57mm air defence cannon too.
An excellent convoy support and air defence vehicle that is cheap to use and cheap to operate... with a vehicle with the BTR-82A turret with a single 30mm cannon with air burst ammo they would be ideal for dealing with drone threats too.... tiny short range drones with 30mm cannon and high flying larger drones with stand off weapons with these Pine missiles....
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That Bumerang can hold so many Sosna rounds inside. The driver and gunner-operator better have their P90X and protein shakes ready, because they are going to need it.
There's a actually an antenna just above the optronics to guide the missile to the beginning of its trajectory after launch and prior to shedding the first stage. After which it switches over to the laser beam riding guidance.GarryB wrote:
It uses laser beam riding guidance so DIRCMS are not effective, it has very high missile speed so re-engagement time is very good, and while it clearly sports a radar it can operate just fine without it.
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They could turn the missiles into a six-pack and give the vehicle a small crane.
The missiles of the Sosna system are small, but the new missile for Pantsir are even smaller. A dedicated air defence system equipped with that missile would be nice, even a Tigr-M could carry a decent number of them. The fire control radar is a different story, but... Why not?
The missiles of the Sosna system are small, but the new missile for Pantsir are even smaller. A dedicated air defence system equipped with that missile would be nice, even a Tigr-M could carry a decent number of them. The fire control radar is a different story, but... Why not?
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Hole wrote:They could turn the missiles into a six-pack and give the vehicle a small crane.
The missiles of the Sosna system are small, but the new missile for Pantsir are even smaller. A dedicated air defence system equipped with that missile would be nice, even a Tigr-M could carry a decent number of them. The fire control radar is a different story, but... Why not?
I don't get what you mean. Are you suggesting a realoading system ?
They have a weight of 38kg. Easily realodable by the crew in 10-15 minutes with hands.
And what do you mean by a "dedicated AD system", it's already the case.
And there is no fire control radar. They are controled by laser and can can work with a camera instead of a radar for detection/tracking.
Tigr M is too small for this. Pantsir on a big truck is already hard to drive, let alone a small vehicle in the same configuration. The turret elevates the gravity center making the vehicle unstable. In offroad it will lead to accidents.
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There's a actually an antenna just above the optronics to guide the missile to the beginning of its trajectory after launch and prior to shedding the first stage. After which it switches over to the laser beam riding guidance.
Like Radio command guidance... like Falanga and Shturm and Ataka missiles?
The missiles of the Sosna system are small, but the new missile for Pantsir are even smaller.
Sosna missiles are not huge, about 40kgs each for the current models and I would expect the extended range 20km versions will likely be heavier... perhaps double the weight, so two to three guys to reload at least... the vehicle is designed to have three man crew for the vehicle and I would expect they could arrange the rear troop area to stack reloads so that there is space for perhaps a couple of soldiers to sit to reload and perhaps operate anti drone "rifles".
The Pantsir missiles are designed to fit into a normal standard tube with four missiles in one tube... and I think they are full length but thinner so they probably are not lighter than standard missiles at all.
A dedicated air defence system equipped with that missile would be nice, even a Tigr-M could carry a decent number of them. The fire control radar is a different story, but... Why not?
Personally I would like to see a vehicle that can carry a variety of missiles that can use the onboard radar and optronics to find small difficult targets and destroy them easily and cheaply.
Tigr M is too small for this. Pantsir on a big truck is already hard to drive, let alone a small vehicle in the same configuration. The turret elevates the gravity center making the vehicle unstable. In offroad it will lead to accidents.
The Boomerang has the advantage of being cheap and simple to operate and have enough internal space for extra missiles and a proper crew and people to reload the missiles who could provide extra defence from suicide drones when not reloading the tubes.
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Isos wrote:Hole wrote:They could turn the missiles into a six-pack and give the vehicle a small crane.
The missiles of the Sosna system are small, but the new missile for Pantsir are even smaller. A dedicated air defence system equipped with that missile would be nice, even a Tigr-M could carry a decent number of them. The fire control radar is a different story, but... Why not?
I don't get what you mean. Are you suggesting a realoading system ?
They have a weight of 38kg. Easily realodable by the crew in 10-15 minutes with hands.
And what do you mean by a "dedicated AD system", it's already the case.
And there is no fire control radar. They are controled by laser and can can work with a camera instead of a radar for detection/tracking.
Tigr M is too small for this. Pantsir on a big truck is already hard to drive, let alone a small vehicle in the same configuration. The turret elevates the gravity center making the vehicle unstable. In offroad it will lead to accidents.
With a crane and a six-pack of missiles the crew could reload all 12 missiles in 2 minutes.
Dedicated = a system that just uses the small missile of the Pantsir system. Which means a smaller, lighter vehicle but still lots of missiles.
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Like the Pantsir, which has a similar antenna meant for post launch guidance to enable capture by the main antenna/laser.GarryB wrote:
Like Radio command guidance... like Falanga and Shturm and Ataka missiles?
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With a crane and a six-pack of missiles the crew could reload all 12 missiles in 2 minutes.
Dedicated = a system that just uses the small missile of the Pantsir system. Which means a smaller, lighter vehicle but still lots of missiles.
Why not. It's not a big deal to put a small crane.
You still need the big radars to use the missile since they are radio guided. Sosna is a mini pantsir and is very good and probably cheap. Its laser engagement is a new thing and most planes can't jamm such technology.
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Isos wrote:
Why not. It's not a big deal to put a small crane.
You still need the big radars to use the missile since they are radio guided. Sosna is a mini pantsir and is very good and probably cheap. Its laser engagement is a new thing and most planes can't jamm such technology.
The missiles aren't radio guided per se. The uplink antennas are there just to capture the missile post launch and keep them within view of the primary guidance system which is a laser in the case of Sosna, that will then take over as soon as the booster is jettisoned baring the rear part of the actual interceptor. The antenna signals are weak enough to not throw away the initial stages of the engagement, so upon switching to the laser the victim is pretty much unaware of the entire time he's under attack.
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Why not. It's not a big deal to put a small crane.
I would think it would be a pain in the backside to put a small crane to load multiple missiles at once.
It would have a ramp rear door, but you could probably stack individual launch tubes closer together than they are on the mount so you could likely get more individual missiles than you would with a fixed arrangement...
I would say four people would be ideal... two on the ground and two on the back of the vehicle... the two people on the ground take one missile out and hand it to one of the guys on the back of the vehicle who guides it through the gap where the tube would fit with the other guy at the front of where the tube ends up as the guy at the rear feeds it through. they then attach any electrical connection while the two guys on the ground get the next tube out.
Even with a crane you would still need one on the ground and one on top to guide the missiles being handled and of course one operating the crane.
You still need the big radars to use the missile since they are radio guided. Sosna is a mini pantsir and is very good and probably cheap. Its laser engagement is a new thing and most planes can't jamm such technology.
The command guidance just gets the missile heading in the right direction while the solid rocket booster is accelerating the missile... the west has talked about jamming command guided missiles, but I have yet to see any convincing evidence that they have jammers and that those jammers would work...
The antenna on the missile for both command guidance and laser beam riding look back at the launch platform, so would be rather tricky to interfere with in the few seconds the target has available... these are rather fast missiles.
so upon switching to the laser the victim is pretty much unaware of the entire time he's under attack.
And because the laser sensor in the missile is looking directly back into the laser source it can be very weak too... a laser warning system sensitive enough to detect a laser beam riding laser beam will generally be useless because laser rangefinder lasers and their reflections are rather brighter so the laser warning sensor would be going off all the time when any friendly or enemy lased a target to get a range.
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lyle6 wrote:Isos wrote:
Why not. It's not a big deal to put a small crane.
You still need the big radars to use the missile since they are radio guided. Sosna is a mini pantsir and is very good and probably cheap. Its laser engagement is a new thing and most planes can't jamm such technology.
The missiles aren't radio guided per se. The uplink antennas are there just to capture the missile post launch and keep them within view of the primary guidance system which is a laser in the case of Sosna, that will then take over as soon as the booster is jettisoned baring the rear part of the actual interceptor. The antenna signals are weak enough to not throw away the initial stages of the engagement, so upon switching to the laser the victim is pretty much unaware of the entire time he's under attack.
I was replying about pantsir missiles which are all the way radio guided.
Sosna is indeed laser guided and immune to jamming.
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Laser guided missiles can also be spoofed, but yes more difficult to do that compared to radio guided missiles.Isos wrote:
I was replying about pantsir missiles which are all the way radio guided.
Sosna is indeed laser guided and immune to jamming.
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Shooting from Igla MANPADS during the "Clear Sky" competition
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The advantage of the Boomerang based system is the rear ramp door means you could stack missiles inside easily.
I would expect that in addition to SOSNA missiles they would also carry a couple of gripstocks for Verba missiles, and perhaps also those EW Kalashnikov anti drone weapons... the only AK designed to jam.... hahahahaha.
Wheeled systems are very mobile and are cheap to buy and operate and can drive enormous distances at a time at relatively high speeds, which is a useful feature of an air defence vehicle.
The BTRs are good too but the small side doors make stacking long thing missiles inside rather awkward and inefficient.
A BTR with a 30mm autocannon with airburst ammo would compliment a missile vehicle too of course.
I would expect that in addition to SOSNA missiles they would also carry a couple of gripstocks for Verba missiles, and perhaps also those EW Kalashnikov anti drone weapons... the only AK designed to jam.... hahahahaha.
Wheeled systems are very mobile and are cheap to buy and operate and can drive enormous distances at a time at relatively high speeds, which is a useful feature of an air defence vehicle.
The BTRs are good too but the small side doors make stacking long thing missiles inside rather awkward and inefficient.
A BTR with a 30mm autocannon with airburst ammo would compliment a missile vehicle too of course.
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9M311 missile of the Tunguska AD system
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going through old ex army documents i had during service and found info on Sa-16 and Sa-18 MANPADS around probability hits. info as follows
Sa-16 - the seeker system is sensitive enough to home in on airframe radiation and the two colour sensitivity is designed to minimise vulnerability to flares chances of hitting fighter aircraft with SAM protection measures are slim. 20-38% against unprotected fighter aircraft, using IRCM jammers only reduces this down to 14%-20%.
Sa-18 - the seeker system offers better protection against electro optical jammers, probability against unprotected fighter aircraft 30-40%, and using IRCM jammers only reduces this down to 24-30%.
this was the key points and are not my views, (British army's assessment). However it did not provide info on probability against helicopters or cargo aircraft which i know the probability of a hit is much higher. i know the info is probably old news now but thought i would share.
Sa-16 - the seeker system is sensitive enough to home in on airframe radiation and the two colour sensitivity is designed to minimise vulnerability to flares chances of hitting fighter aircraft with SAM protection measures are slim. 20-38% against unprotected fighter aircraft, using IRCM jammers only reduces this down to 14%-20%.
Sa-18 - the seeker system offers better protection against electro optical jammers, probability against unprotected fighter aircraft 30-40%, and using IRCM jammers only reduces this down to 24-30%.
this was the key points and are not my views, (British army's assessment). However it did not provide info on probability against helicopters or cargo aircraft which i know the probability of a hit is much higher. i know the info is probably old news now but thought i would share.
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The Malyutka is a very small wire guided anti tank missile that does not have a massive heat signature and moves at about 120m/s.
The Russians tested the Igla (SA-16) against the Malyutka that was fired at low altitude to test how effective it would be against a cruise missile like target.
They fired 9 Malyutkas and got 5 kills with the Igla, which is actually rather impressive because the Malyutka is very small... about 80cm long and just over 120mm in calibre and the Igla has an impact/graze fuse so would actually have to make contact with the target to set off the warhead.
The findings were obviously add a proximity fuse, but they also improved the sensitivity of the seeker and improve the rocket motor and increase the power of the warhead.
The result was Igla-S which the Indian Army have just bought the production rights for... they could have bought Mistral or Stinger, but went with Igla-S.
Malyutka is best known in the west as Sagger, or AT-3.
The Russians tested the Igla (SA-16) against the Malyutka that was fired at low altitude to test how effective it would be against a cruise missile like target.
They fired 9 Malyutkas and got 5 kills with the Igla, which is actually rather impressive because the Malyutka is very small... about 80cm long and just over 120mm in calibre and the Igla has an impact/graze fuse so would actually have to make contact with the target to set off the warhead.
The findings were obviously add a proximity fuse, but they also improved the sensitivity of the seeker and improve the rocket motor and increase the power of the warhead.
The result was Igla-S which the Indian Army have just bought the production rights for... they could have bought Mistral or Stinger, but went with Igla-S.
Malyutka is best known in the west as Sagger, or AT-3.
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Looks as if Tor is used to guide other V/SHORAD systems
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Defense firm delivers latest missiles for Strela air defense system to Russian troops
These missiles are in operational service with 9A34M3 and 9A35M3 combat vehicles that make part of the Strela-10M3 surface-to-air missile system
MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. The Kalashnikov weapons maker delivered a batch of 9M333 missiles for the Strela-10M3 mobile short-range surface-to-air missile system to the Defense Ministry of Russia, the Kalashnikov press office reported on Thursday.
"The Kalashnikov Group has successfully completed the manufacture and delivery of 9M333 surface-to-air missiles to the Russian Defense Ministry under the defense procurement plan," the press office informed.
9M333 missiles are in operational service with 9A34M3 and 9A35M3 combat vehicles that make part of the Strela-10M3 surface-to-air missile system, the press office explained.
The 9M333 missile is designed to strike low-flying aircraft and helicopters at any time of the year amid the use of dropped, parachuted and modulated optical interference and also remotely-controlled aircraft and cruise missiles. The missile features a multi-purpose homing warhead operational in the photo contrast, infrared and anti-jamming modes, which allows employing the ‘fire-and-forget’ principle.
"The missile is capable of striking targets at a range of up to 5,000 km, with targets accelerating to 679 m/s and flying at an altitude of 10 to 3,500 meters," the Kalashnikov press office said.
The 9M333 missile was unveiled to the public at the Army 2020 International Arms Show. In December 2020, the 9M333 surface-to-air missile successfully passed qualification and flight tests and fully confirmed its compliance with the customer’s requirements and in October 2021 its periodic flight tests yielded a positive result.
https://tass.com/defense/1363097
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5.000km range! 
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Hole wrote:5.000km range!
New super fuel apparently
A secret operation was able to get a sample of that gas that Biden was distributing in Glasgow and voila 
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That's the range of a MANPADS. Too small for a vehicle based system. It should have at least 10km range for higher no escape zone, even if it couldn't lock on targets that far.
The new sensor on Verba is probavly better so the verba on a tigr vehicle must be a better solution.
The new sensor on Verba is probavly better so the verba on a tigr vehicle must be a better solution.
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Hole wrote:5.000km range!
Look better. It's not 5.000 km but 5,000 km, which mean 5 km and 0 m.
Strela-10 is old VSHORAD, but Russia modernized 70 of them to Strela-10MN standard with thermal imager and data link. New missiles are great for them as they will still serve for some time. Missile is heavier and bigger than Verba and have bigger warhead. Having more fragments is not that unimportant against small targets. They are still useful against kamikaze drones.
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