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Surface-to-air missile

A surface-to-air missile (SAM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft.

SAMs can be deployed from fixed installations or mobile launchers. The smallest SAMs are capable of being carried and launched by a single person.

Radar-guided SAMs

  • CLAWS
  • HUMRAAM
  • MIM-23 Hawk - United States
  • MIM-72 Chaparral FAADS
  • MIM-104 Patriot - United States
  • BAe Blindfire Rapier - United Kingdom
  • MEADS
  • SA-2 - Russia
  • SA-5 - Russia
  • SA-6 - Russia
  • SA-10 - Russia

IR-guided SAMs

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1967 Middle East war | 1973 Yom Kippur War | Acronym | Acroynm | Blue Steel missile | British Air Force | Cuban Missile Crisis | Fourth Arab-Israeli War | Francis Gary Powers | Gary Powers | Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi | Me 163 | Me 163 Komet | Messerschmitt Me 163 | October war | Operation Rolling Thuder | Operation Rolling Thunder | Ramadan War | Royal Air Force | SU-25 | Su-25 Frogfoot | Sukhoi Su-25 | Thai aircraft carrier Chakri Nareubet | USS Carl Vinson | USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) | X-4 missile | Yom Kippur War

 

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