Syark Defence Forces (SDF) -1/35 TRUMPETER USSR SAM 6 Gainful

Syark Defence Forces (SDF) - 1/35 Trumpeter USSR SAM 6 Gainful

Modeler : Majorbee

Satu-satu aset Russian yang aku ada dlm iventori aku. sekali lagi model ini dihasilkan oleh majorbee.no weathering sgt sbb sajer nk buat nampak baru. aset ini di kenali oleh fighter-fighter Nato dan US sebagai 3 fingers of devil..Masa perang bosnia dulu.senjata ini diguna meluas oleh penganas serbia sebagai aset pertahanan udara.Sam 6 ini dikenali Sistem Pertahanan Udara Jarak Sederhana. This SAM 6 has shooted down F117 Night Hawk USAF during Kosovo Conflict.

Info about SA-6 Gainful

In 1958 the Soviet Union began work on an overlapping and interlocking system of air defense for their motorized rifle and tank divisions. Each project received a covername, and the one chosen for the division level missile system was "Kub" – cube. (The Army level one was the 3M8 "Krug" – circle – which became known in the West as the SA-4 GANEF when it came into service.) The system was designed by OKB-15 under V. V. Tikhomirov. Testing began in 1961 but was unsatisfactory, and it was not until 1967 that the system was accepted for service. The missile was dubbed the 3M9, and the launcher, based on a GM-578 chassis, was dubbed the 2P25. NATO dubbed the new system the SA-6 GAINFUL.

The missile system was fielded in regiments of 20 launchers each, divided up into five batteries of four launchers and a 1S91 radar system each. The 1S91 (dubbed STRAIGHT FLUSH by NATO) was data-linked to each of the launchers, and controlled both their launches and the missiles themselves once in the air. The original missiles had an engagement envelope of 6-12 kilometers. Later, as the system evolved, a new missile was designed, the 3M9M, which had a much broader envelope – 4-25 kilometers.

The missile itself was unique – it used a solid-propellant booster to launch the missile, but then had a solid-fuel ramjet engine for its sustainer. This was fed by four intakes located around the missile airframe and was controlled by the rear set of fins. The missile had a 57 kilogram warhead and was very dangerous to modern aircraft, as the Israelis found out to their detriment during the 1973 Yom Kippur war when the Egyptians claimed to have shot down 63 aircraft with the 3M9.

Eventually more than seven versions of the 3M9 missile were built and sold abroad under the covername "Kvadrat" (square) to 25 different nations. More than 500 launcher systems were built.

All 3M9 missiles shared the same dimensions, and only minor external differences provided any clue to which version of the missile was being used. Later, the new SA-11 missile replaced the SA-6 and the launchers were modified to fire that missile in place of the 3M9.

The SA-6 has been a popular subject for a number of years, and at least three different resin conversion kits for the DML ZSU-23-4 (on the closely related GM-575 chassis) were offered over the years. Now Trumpeter is the first company to offer the 2P25 series launcher as a kit and it is quite impressive.

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