Ground Troops Air Defense (PVO)

Actually Verba and Label use several optical frequencies so calling them IR guided is not totally accurate. Optically guided would be a better description.

The SA-13 Strela-10M1 missiles also have upgraded optical guidance too and are quite capable as well but their much larger warhead makes them more suitable to shooting down aircraft and helicopters.

Nice, this will allow to counter also UAV swarms since it is an area (volume actually) weapon. Still, some APS capable for anti drone warfare is needed at the level of individual vehicles, I am curious to see what Russia will come up with, beyond the current improvised measures.

Nice post Hole...

So a TOR battery with EMP armed missiles...

the effective radius of the EMP warhead is 1-1.5km, the missiles are command guided and can effect drones and aircraft and incoming guided missiles, and they suggest using 4 missiles per launcher, which on a standard launcher with standard missiles would leave 12 conventional missiles ready to fire at other targets.

The second chart shows 30km as the max range for the missile so presumably the EMP warhead is rather lighter than the HE warhead...

The third chart seems to suggest this is an army system and will be used on S-300V4 and BUK and TOR... and is clearly intended to defend operational units in combat (top half of the third chart).

I wonder if this will be instead of mini anti drone missiles or in addition to them.

The super small 10kg missiles to defeat artillery shells and rockets would probably not be related to this because artillery shells and dumb rockets would not be stopped by a jammer and if they have physical detonators they would work as advertised despite EMP interception.

EMP plus jammers plus DEW like lasers to dazzle optics or destroy structures and make them crash as well as guns and missiles of all sizes makes sense... some things will have other uses too...