SAM "Pine" – air defense missile system

Air defense missile system (SAM) "Pine" is designed to protect the military units and divisions in all forms of combat operations, including on the march, by means of air attack and exploration potential enemy.

SAM "Pine" – video

The complex provides defeat helicopters, aircraft, WTO means, cruise missiles, remotely operated vehicles and light armored ground vehicles at any time of the day in restricted visibility in the presence of natural and man-made noise at a distance of 10km.

Head developer of the complex – JSC "Design Bureau of Precision Engineering named AE. Nudelmana . Development of the complex was carried out with 1987 of the year. The priority was to increase the combat stability of the complex, reducing the cost of the combat vehicle. Increasing the combat stability of the SAM was achieved by eliminating the use of radar detection systems, to reduce vulnerability to enemy arms antiradar.

SAM “Pine”It has a modular structure, components which can be installed on a variety of media with capacity of at least 3.5 t, and also performed in the stationary embodiments. By request of the customer can be manufactured as a complex in the combination embodiment missile cannon, and in the only cannon or rocket.

The composition of the air defense system "Sosna":
The composition of the combat unit complex includes:

• two packages of six rockets “Pine-R” in transport-launch containers,
• opto-electronic control system,
• digital computer system,
• guidance mechanisms,
• power system.

rocket “Pine-R”- two-stage with detachable engine. After the release of the missile from the container is controlled by means of radio command system, which displays it on the line of sight, then separated and the starter motor is switched Interference-proof laser guidance system.

warhead: fragmentation rod to engage on migration, armor-fragmentation to defeat a direct hit. Fuse – Noncontact laser-pin with a continuous circular radiation pattern and an adaptive time undermining .

The missile does not require additional inspections or tests during the entire service life. The small mass of the rocket allowed to exclude transport and loading vehicle of the composition of the complex.

Originally used in the complex two-stage anti-aircraft guided missile 9M337, now SAM "Pine" is equipped with missiles 9M340 (9M340).

9M337 missile is capable of providing goals defeat, flying at altitudes up 3500 m. The range is from defeat 1,3 to 8 km, with the flight time at maximum range missiles is 11 seconds. Warhead weight 5 kg. Weight missile launch container freight is 36 kg, without the container - 25-26 kg.

Opto-electronic control system of the complex has a high precision characteristics by definition target coordinates, pomehozashishennostyu and concealment actions and provides automated combat work complex from the time the target acquisition prior to bombardment.

It is composed of: opto-electronic module (OEM), digital computer system, drives horizontal and vertical guidance of weapons, remote control and indication, Power Supply, Automatic capture and tracking of targets and missiles.

REM placed on gyrostabilized platform and serves for autonomous or according to an external target designation (radar, superior KP) target detection, automatic or semi-automatic tracking, precision determination of its coordinates (angles of sight and the target range) and issuing them in a digital computer system for shooting.

The composition consists of POEM:

• TV system,
• thermal imaging channel,
• laser rangefinder beam deflection device with,
• machinery laser-beam missile control channel,
• thermal imaging channel direction finder missiles,
• climate control device.

Autonomous target detection osushestvlyaetsya television channel with a wide field of view, and range determination before it – laser rangefinder, operating in automatic mode,.

Missiles and anti-aircraft system itself are protected from interference by several methods, embedded in the design level. So, laser receiver arrangement at the rear of the missile does not allow distort or muffle control signal. Interference immunity land part of the complex is provided a narrow field of view of the body- and thermal channels, as well as the use of special computer algorithms, allowing identification of the purpose of its characteristic features. The complex is virtually insensitive to radar and optical media suppression, applicable opponent.

The combination of high performance and missile control system provides a large affected area. SAM "Pine" may be used as a part of the battery, including mixed composition, receiving target information from the battery control center or command vehicle, as well as stand-alone. Battery SAM "Pine", using a sector search, can do without external targeting, performing round visibility and detection target in the passive mode,, It is making it impossible to attack the RDP.

The performance characteristics of air defense missile system "Sosna"

Photo SAM "Pine"

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