Russia unveils new surface-to-air missile systems
Two of the latest Russian SAM systems were unveiled in public for the first time at Army-2018 defence exhibition held in Kubinka near Moscow, with both now being offered for export.
The first of these is a brand-new development from the Nudelman Precise Machine-Building Design Bureau, a company controlled by the Rostec industrial conglomerate. The short-range mobile system comes as a successor of the Strela-10 (SA-13 Gopher) short-range air defence system, intended to counter a wide range of low-level air treats, including UAVs and cruise missiles.
The system uses the all-new 9M340 Sosna-R missile featuring the laser-beam riding guidance method,
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