anti-aircraft

SA1 was the 1st Soviet anti-aircraft missile in 1951, developed from a WWII German anti-aircraft missile Waterfall. The system's performance could be regarded as a fixed-base version of MIM-23 Hawk. The system remained in service until 1982, having made many times of upgrade. The first V-300...

Soviet SA8 is a short range anti-aircraft missile. Specifications (OSA-AKM) Mass 17.5 tonnes Length 9.14 m Width 2.75 m Height 4.20 m (radar mast stowed) Crew 5 soldiers Main armament 6 9M33, 9M33M1, 9M33M2 or 9M33M3 missiles Engine D20K300 diesel Ground clearance 400 mm Operational range 30 km...

Thanks to Mr. Springrose who shared them on a public website, there's a set of 1970s S200 and Obsolete S225 long-range anti-aircraft missile manuals. S200 is a 180km long-range anti-aircraft missile, which is the largest one in the world. It was designed to deal with SR71 blackbird. In late...

Soviet SA3 or S125 Dvina Missile was the first solid anti-aircraft missile of the Soviet Union from 1959. Its early warning system is powered by a very old meter-wave radar P18. In extreme circumstances, it could even guided by a telescope! Specifications (V-601) Mass 953 kg Length 6.09 m...

Soviet SA2 or S75 Dvina Missile was the first mobile anti-aircraft missile of the Soviet Union from 1957. Specifications (V-750 ) Mass 2,300 kg (5,100 lb) Length 10,600 mm (420 in) Diameter 700 mm (28 in) Warhead Frag-HE Warhead weight 200 kg (440 lb) Detonation mechanism Command Propellant...

ARI5919 1960 AIRCRAFT GUARD Radar is a traditional modular aircraft guard radar on bomber, used to detect figher, range: about 33km. ARI5919 1960 AIRCRAFT GUARD Radar on bomber Operator and Maintenance Manual including wiring diagram, sharing for no profit publicly. The radar was equivelant...

Anti-aircraft gun government-release publicly free manuals: WWII 20-mm Oerlikon Gun maintenance manual IPC range table and drawing including ammunition and mounts...

MIM-23 Hawk Semi-active radar homing air defence missle goverment release manuals including wiring diagram, some of which come from google government free books, others comes from liberatedmanuals.com. range:25km, missle weight:650kg, speed:900m/s. Please download the following 18 pdf attachments:

AIM-9D early version anti-aircraft missle goverment public release free manuals including ipc. From Liberated manuals MIM-72 etc, MIM-72 is the army version land-based AIM-9D. Aim-9D was an early missle of AIM-9 family, which were used in Vietnam era. Range: <10km Added Soviet version AIM-9B...

MIM-3 and MIM-14 were US's first Anti-aircraft missles. MIM-14 long range missle range:150km, missle weight: 9000kg. Most government released public free manuals from google free books, some of the manuals are scanned by volunteers of the websites: There're 2 websites that has the manuals best...

SA-18 operator and maintenance manual including theory of operation reproduced from other public website, sharing only for interest and with no profit. SA-18 of the Soviet Union shares a similar theory of operation with FIM-92, and plays a role like FIM-92 stringer in US army. Range: 5km...

I've got a question regarding Munda Point Airfield at New Georgia. I need some more information about this airfield. Who can help me with the following questions: - What Japanese defense and armory was there (troops, AA guns,...)? - Does somebody got more pictures of the defense, and how the...

At the top of Hood's conning tower/citadel, was located her 'air defence platform'. This was equipped with a variety of binoculars, that were used to obtain 'target angles' to enemy aircraft. One of Hood's anti-aircraft guns, is located at the foot of her conning tower: a quadruple 0.5 inch.

Has ISIS, Boko Haram, Taliban etc. made much use of heavy machine guns or automatic cannon for anti-aircraft protection?? Or do they mostly rely on shoulder fired anti-aircraft rockets for protection against air strikes???