There’s a really good section detailing Soviet assistance to Vietnam, Egypt, Syria, and Libya in setting up and operating air defense networks.

Any chance to scan that chapter?, I can run OCR and Systran translation and post the result here for everyone’s happines 😀

Where do you buy it? and do you speak russian? 😀

I’ve been reading about a 1985 test-firing of a modified 48N6 missile that may clear some of this up. The 40N6 may be the “new” designation for the 400-km variant of…the 48N6. Apparently Grushin and company had limited the altitude during the midcourse ballistic trajectory of the S-300P’s missiles to 38 kilometers. This was because if they went any higher, control surfaces would be ineffective (remember the motor has already burnt out so the TVC control used during the boost phase is no longer a factor) and any such movement would just perturb the missile’s flight profile in a manner not conducive to conducting a long-range intercept. The idea behind the 1985 test was to see if a missile could be fired with locked control surfaces during the boost and midcourse stages of flight, and then unlock them later for guidance when it descended to a sensible altitude. The modified missile was fired to an altitude of 70 kilometers and managed to fly out to a range of 400 kilometers. It reached a peak velocity while ascending of 2000 meters per second, and when it had descended back down to 20 kilometers it was successfully captured by the guidance system, unlocked its control surfaces, and was successfully controlled by the normal guidance system. No mention of whether or not they actually fired at a target, but they got the desired range for the S-400 out of a 48N6 derivative all the way back in 1985. This was probably part of the original S-400 program begun in the same year to seek a replacement for the S-200, the S-350 program had begun a few years earlier to find an eventual S-300P replacement. Both of them merged to become the Triumf program, the S-400 of today. The point remains that they had the range capability over 20 years ago. Those S-400 TELs sitting at Electrostal right now? They just might already have the ability to smack a target at obscene range, and we had no clue, expecting to hear about the “new” 40N6 missile in testing or entering service. We know they’ve tested the S-400’s 48N6DM to 240 kilometers, that has appeared in the open press and it is that missile which we assume to be in the S-400’s launch tubes right now. The 40N6 may simply be a derivative of the 48N6DM with optimized control surfaces and a higher impulse motor to enable much longer-range shots by exploiting ballistic trajectories as Grushin and company demonstrated back in 1985.

SOC, what’s the source for this?

What new book on S-300 or soviet SAM do you have around?, can you pass the name, ISBN and where do you buy it and at what cost 😀

Thanks pal.

Same to you pal,

You have to take into account that MGK-400, even MGK-400EM should be considered “toy” compared to Skat-540 series (I have a wealth of info on the Skat sonars and it’s awesome), I indeed have doubts the russians would allow to export that!

I have also a pic of the Irtysh spherical array (along the Skat array on different subs like Komsomolets and Akula) will try to upload them soon!!

Have to finish my tests!

The Tu-128 could operate autonomously.

Even F-106 or MiG-21 could do it too, question is, was its WCS designed to allow a degree of indepedent pilot (crew) SA-builiding and own target allocation that allowed this kind of operation as a diferentiator of other aircraft?

Corrosion is only a problem for aircrafts not preparated to operate in such conditions, once they follow corrosion-control procedures or receive special treatment, such a problem descends.

AMV Flanker’s fleet received just minor (and now corrected) corrosion problem on first four aircraft that now operates far from coast and pretty good.

Yes, prove that Russian Flankers carry R-77s, because Chinese Flankers do. In addition to that, Chinese Flankers have a strengthened landing gear that increases the payload by more than a ton.

That was an upgrade kit supplied by the Russians by late-90s and well publicised later.

Yes, Irbis can detect 0,01sqm targets form 90 km. Approaching targets. In low frame-speed scan mode, in high altitudes .

Similar to VCTR mode on F-15E with APG-70.

LOL, it looks so cute, like a mini Akula…

Now, what in heavens name means “DDM”.?