ZRK-SD Kub 3M9
SA-6 Gainful
| Specifications | ||
|---|---|---|
| System designation | Kub (domestic version) or Kvadrat (export version) | |
| Type | Mobile tactical air defense complex | |
| Mission | Protection of troops and objects of thereof from
low-flying airplanes and helicopters of adversary under conditions of
jamming and fire counteraction (The system was reportedly designed to defend advancing Soviet tank divisions in case of the war) | |
| System Developer | V.V.Tikhomirov Science
and Research Institute of Instrument-Engineering (NIIP) Chief Designer of the System: Yevgeniy Pigin | |
| Missile Developer | State Machine-building Design Bureau «Vympel» (Moscow) | |
| Serial Production Facility | Ul'yanovsk Mechanical Plant (for launchers and reconnaissance facility) | |
| CHRONOLOGY | ||
| Development started | late 1950s | |
| Testing started | 1965 (Army) | |
| Serial Production started | 1968 [1] or 1967 [3] | |
| Production ceased | 1983 [3] or 1985 [1] | |
| PERFORMANCES: | ||
| System Composition | One Self-Propelled Reconnaissance and Targeting Facility and 4 Self-propelled SAM Launchers, each carrying three missiles (all on tracked chassis). Initial version of the system carried 3M9 missiles, Kub-M3 features 3M9M3 missiles | |
| Probability of kill by one missile (within the lethality envelope) | To increase Pk target can be engaged by several missiles, fired from either single or several Launchers | |
| for «non manuevering aerodynamic target» | 0.8-0.9 [1], 0.7-0.8 [2] 0.8-0.95 [3] | |
| for manuevering high-speed target | 0.5-0.7 [2] | |
| for cruise missile | 0.3-0.4 [1] 0.1-0.3 [2] | |
| Missile Guidance | semi-active radar homing (on recently upgraded complexes TV/optical seeker introduced) For protection aganst anti-radar missiles seeker of SAM can lock on target mid-air, after launch | |
| Length: | 5.8 m | |
| Diameter: | 0.335 m | |
| Wing span: | 1.245 m | |
| Max speed: | Mach 2.8 | |
| Launch weight: | 599 kg | |
| Max effective range: | 24,000 m
24-28 kilometers [1-3] (for M3 and M4 modifications) |
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| Min effective range: | 3,700 m 3-3.5 kilometers (for M3 and M4 modifications) |
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| Max effective altitude: | 12,000 m 14 kilometers (for M3 and M4 modifications) | |
| Min effective altitude: | (radar mode) 100 m
(optical mode) 50 m 25 meters (for M3 and M4 modifications) |
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| Propulsion: | integral rocket motor/ramjet booster and sustainer motor assembly | |
| Warhead: | 59 kg HE fragmentation with contact and proximity fuzes | |
| Reload time (SPU): | 10 min | |
| Time of Deployment for Combat | 5 minutes | |
| Reaction Time | 20 [1] or 22 [3] seconds between target detection and missile firing | |
| Operational Temperatures | -50 C .. + 50 C | |
| Performance Upgrade Activity | «In the interests of foreign customers» NIIP currently upgrades the system to increase efficiency of tracking targets at low altitudes and improve jam-resistance of illumination channel. Work is also underway to increase combat performance can be enhanced by inclusion of a newer 9A310M1 Self-propelling Launcher from Buk-M1 SA-17) system | |
| Exports | Was delivered to 22 [1] or 25 [3] countries, including Syria and Yugoslavia. Extensively used in the 1973 Israeli-Arab war (64 airplanes were shot down by 95 fired missiles) | |
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