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The NPO Almaz S 200 Angara/Vega/Dubna (Russian С-200 Ангара/Вега/Дубна), NATO reporting name SA-5 Gammon (initially Tallinn),[2] is a long range, high altitude surface-to-air missile (SAM) system designed in the 1960s to defend large areas from high-altitude bombers or other targets. Each battalion has 6 single-rail missile launchers for the 10,800 mm (35.4 ft) long missiles and a fire control radar. It can be linked to other, longer-range radar systems.

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S-200 Dubna SA-5 Gammon
S-200 missile (Vega) on its launcher
Type	Strategic SAM system
Place of origin	Soviet Union
Service history
In service	1967–present
Used by	See list of present and former operators
Wars	First Libyan Civil War Syrian civil war
Production history
Designer	KB-1 design bureau (system), GSKB Spetsmash (launcher)[1]
Designed	1964
Variants	S-200, S-200V (S-200VE), S-200D (S-200DE), S-200A
Specifications
Guidance system	Semi-active radar homing

Description

The S-200 surface-to-air missile system was designed for the defense of the most important administrative, industrial and military installations from all types of air attack. The S-200 is an all-weather system that can be operated in various climatic conditions.[3]

By 1966, the S-200 was officially accepted into service in order to replace the failed anti-ballistic missile RZ-25/5V11 "Dal". The Dal was assigned the NATO reporting name SA-5 "Griffon" before it was cancelled.

The first S-200 operational regiments were deployed in 1966 with 18 sites and 342 launchers in service by the end of the year. By 1968 there were 40 sites, and by 1969 there were 60 sites. The growth in numbers then gradually increased throughout the 1970s (1,100 launchers)[4] and early 1980s until the peak of 130[1] sites and 2,030 launchers was reached in 1980–1990.[4]

Missiles

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5V21
Type	Surface-to-air missile
Place of origin	Soviet Union
Service history
In service	1967–present
Used by	See list of operators
Production history
Designer	OKB-2 design bureau (missile), SKB-35 bureau (avionics), NII-125 research institute (solid rocket fuel)
Variants	5V21, 5V28, 5V28V
Specifications (5V28V[1])
Mass	7,100 kg (15,700 lb)
Length	10,800 mm (35.4 ft)
Warhead	Frag-HE
Warhead weight	217 kg (478 lb)
Detonation mechanism	proximity and command fusing[5]
Propellant	dual-thrust liquid-fueled rocket motor
Operational range	300 kilometres (190 mi)[6]
Flight altitude	40,000 metres (130,000 ft)
Boost time	4 solid-fueled strap-on rocket boosters
Maximum speed	Mach 8 (9,800 km/h; 6,100 mph)[6]
Guidance system	semi-active radar homing seeker head

Each missile is launched by 4 solid-fueled strap-on rocket boosters.[7] After they burn out and drop away (between 3 and 5.1 seconds from launch) it fires a 5D67 liquid fueled sustainer rocket engine (for 51–150 seconds) which burns a fuel called TG-02 Samin (50% xylidine and 50% triethylamine), oxidized by an agent called AK-27P (red fuming nitric acid enriched with nitrogen oxides, phosphoric acid and hydrofluoric acid).[8] Maximum range is between 150 km (81 nmi) and 300 km (160 nmi), depending on the model.[9] The missile uses radio illumination mid-course correction to fly towards the target with a terminal semi-active radar homing phase. Maximum missile speed is 2500 m/s and maximum target speed is around Mach 6 for new model and Mach 4 for earlier model. Effective altitude is 300 m (980 ft) to 20,000 m (66,000 ft) for early models and up to 35,000 m (115,000 ft) for later models. The warhead is either 217 kg (478 lb) high-explosive fragmentation (16,000 × 2 g fragmentation pellets and 21,000 × 3.5 g pellets) triggered by radar proximity fuse or command signal, or a 25 kt nuclear warhead triggered by command signal only. Each missile weighs around 7,108 kg (15,670 lb) at takeoff.[9]

Main radar system

The fire control radar of the S-200 system is the 5N62 (NATO: Square Pair) H band continuous wave radar, whose range is 270 km (170 mi). It is used for both the tracking of targets and their illumination.^{[citation needed]}

Additional radar systems

• P-14/5N84A "Tall King" A-band early warning radar (range 600 km (370 mi), 2–6 RPM, maximum search altitude 46 km (29 mi) ) or 5N69 Salute "Big Back" E-band early warning radar 600 km (370 mi)
• Kabina 66 "Back Net" or 5N87 "Back Trap" E-band early warning radar (with special low-altitude search mod, range 370 km (230 mi), 3–6 RPM)
• P-35/37 "Bar Lock/Bar Lock B" 1,000 kW E/F-band target detection and tracking radar (with integrated IFF, range 392 km (244 mi), 7 RPM)
• PRV-11 "Side Net" or PRV-13 "Odd Pair" E-band height finding radar (also used by the S-75 Dvina, 2K11 Krug and 2K12 Kub, range 240 km (150 mi), 3–6 RPM)
• P-15M(2) "Squat Eye" 380 kW C-band target detection radar (range 128 km (80 mi))

Versions

• S-200A "Angara" (SA-5a), with the V-860/5V21 or V-860P/5V21A missile, introduced in 1967, range 17-180 km (110 mi), ceiling 20 km (12 mi)/0.5–40.^{[better source needed]}
• S200W "Wega" (SA-5b), with the V-860PV/5W21P, 5W28W missile, introduced in 1970, range 240 km (150 mi) minimum 7 km, ceiling 29 km (18 mi) superior limit 35,[3] minimum height 0,05 km. Five divisions. Division – one goal and missiles at targets a maximum of 2. Missile has a semi-active radar homing. The launch – reclining, with a constant angle of elevation, from the launcher, is rotated horizontally.[3]
• S-200 "Vega" (SA-5b), with the V-870 missile, range increased to 300 km (190 mi) and ceiling to 40 km (25 mi) with the new, shorter missile and solid fuel motor. The probability of hitting the target 0.66–0.99.
• S-200M "Vega-M" (SA-5b), with the V-880/5V28 or V-880N/5V28N² missile, range 300 km (190 mi), ceiling 29 km (18 mi)
• S-200VE "Vega-E" (SA-5b), with the V-880E/5V28E missile, export version, high-explosive warhead only, range 240 km (150 mi) Minimum target size of 0.3 sq. meters. Speed of the target -1200 m / s [10][11] The number of simultaneously fired targets. Up to 5 (the number of radar targeting). Greater than previously opportunity fight against stealth.[10]
• S-200D "Dubna" (SA-5c), with the 5V25V, V-880M/5V28M or V-880MN/5V28MN² missile, introduced in 1976, high-explosive or nuclear warhead, range 300 km (190 mi), ceiling 0,3-40 km (25 mi). The probability of hitting the target 0,72-0,99.[12]

The command post of the S-300 system (SA-20/SA-20A/SA-20B) can manage the elements of the S-200 and S-300 in any combination.[13][14] The S-200 Dubna missile complex can be controlled by the S-300's command post,[14] and the S-300 missile complex can be controlled[15] by the S-400 command post[11] or through a higher-level command post (Organize Use PVO 73N6 "Baikal-1").[16]

Iranian air defense force has implemented several improvements on their S-200 systems such as using solid state parts and removing restrictions on working time. They destroyed a UAV target beyond 100 km range in military drill in recent years.[17] They use two new solid propellant missile named Sayyad-2 and Sayyad-3 via interface systems Talash-2 and Talash-3 in cooperation with S-200 system. These missiles can cover medium and long ranges at high altitudes.[18][19]

Also, Iran claims to have developed a mobile launcher for the system.[20]

Operational history

Ukraine

A Ukrainian S-200 operated by the Ukrainian military during a Ukrainian training exercise fired on a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger aircraft flying from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk, Siberia Airlines Flight 1812. The airliner was destroyed over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001, killing all 78 people on board.[21]

Libya

Starting in 1985, Libya received a number of S-200 missile systems.[22] In the following months, Libyan forces fired a number of S-200 missiles in different occasions at US fighter-bombers, missing them.[23] In the USSR, three organizations (CDB Almaz, a test site and a research institute of the Ministry of Defense) conducted computer simulation of the battle, which gave the probability of hitting each of the air targets (3) in the range from 96 to 99%.[24][25]

Syria

Starting in January 1983, Syria received supplies of S-200 missiles from the Soviet Union.[26] They were organized into two long range surface to air missile regiments, each composed of two battalions of two batteries each for a total of at least 24 launchers. Later in the 1980s, the Soviet Union agreed to supply a third regiment increasing the number of launchers to 40–50. Initially the missiles were manned by Soviet crews,[27] later they were transferred to Syrian control. As such, Syria became the first country outside the Soviet Union to field the S-200 system.[28]

During the initial years of the Syrian civil war, parts of the S-200 systems were occasionally spotted when Syrian Air Defense Force sites were overrun by rebel forces. Most notably radars, missiles and other equipment from S-200 systems was pictured in a state of disrepair when rebels overtook the air defense site in Eastern Ghouta in October 2012.[29][30] On 2 January 2017, the Syrian Army re-captured this air defense base.[31]

Starting with the Russian intervention in the civil war in late 2015, there were new efforts to restore some Syrian S-200 systems. Indeed, on 15 November 2016, the Russian defence minister confirmed that Russian forces repaired Syrian S-200s to operational status.[32] For example, in July 2016, the Syrian Army, with Russian assistance, rebuilt an S-200 site at Kweires airport, near Aleppo.[33][34] On September 12, 2016, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed that two Syrian S-200 missiles were fired at Israeli aircraft while they were on a mission inside Syrian airspace. The Syrian Defense Ministry claimed that an Israeli jet and a drone were shot down.[35] According to the IDF spokesman's office, the claims are "total lies," and "at no point was the safety of IDF aircraft compromised." [36]

On March 17, 2017, the Israeli Air Force attacked a number of Syrian armed forces targets near Palmyria in Syria.^{[citation needed]} Four Israeli aircraft flew through Lebanese territory and launched Popeye stand off missiles with a range of 78 km[37] toward Syrian territory. Syrian Air defence force (SyADF) after some time alerted one S-200V (SA-5) missile battery and tried to retaliate, 2 out of 4 attacking jets were illuminated with two 5N62 Fire Control Radars and missiles were fired on 2 targets, which then were over southern Lebanon.[38] During the action a number of Syrian S-200 missiles were fired at the Israeli aircraft.[39] One of the Syrian missiles, going ballistic after losing its target, was inbound to a populated area in Israel. The Israeli missile defense fired at least one Arrow missile which intercepted the incoming missile.[40] Two other S-200 missiles landed in other parts of Israel, having lost their target. According to ANNA News, Syria claimed that they had shot down one IAF F-16 aircraft and damaged another.[39] While the Syrian Defense Ministry claimed that an Israeli fighter jet was shot down, which was denied by Israel, Israeli defence minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened to destroy Syrian air defence systems after they fired ground-to-air missiles at Israeli warplanes carrying out strikes.[41] The Jordanian armed forces reported that parts of a missile fell in its territory. There were no casualties in Jordan.[42]

On October 16, 2017, a Syrian S-200 battery located around 50 kilometers east of Damascus fired a missile at an Israeli Air Force surveillance mission over Lebanon. The IAF responded by attacking the battery and destroying the fire control radar with four bombs.[43][44][45] Despite this, the Syrian Defense Ministry said in its statement that the air-defense forces "directly hit one of the jets, forcing [Israeli aircraft] to retreat." Israel said that no plane was hit.

On February 10, 2018, Israel launched an air strike against targets in Syria with eight fighter aircraft as retaliation for a UAV incursion into Israeli airspace earlier in the day. Syrian air defenses succeeded in shooting down one of the Israeli jets, an F-16I Sufa, with an S-200 missile - this was the first Israeli jet to be shot down in combat since 1982.[46][47] The jet crashed in the Jezreel Valley, near Harduf.[48] Both the pilot and the navigator managed to eject; one was injured lightly, the other more seriously, but both survived and walked out of the hospital one week later.[49][50]

On 10 May 2018, Israeli Air Force launched Operation House of Cards against a number of Iranian and Syrian targets, claiming the destruction of a S-200 radar among different other targets.[51]

On September 17, 2018, a Russian Il-20M ELINT plane was shot down by a Syrian S-200 surface-to-air missile killing all the 15 servicemen on board. Four Israeli F-16 fighter jets attacked targets in Syria's Latakia with standoff missiles, after approaching from the Mediterranean Sea, a statement by the Russian defense ministry said on 18 September. “The Israeli pilots used the Russian plane as cover and set it up to be targeted by the Syrian air defense forces. As a consequence, the Il-20, which has radar cross-section much larger than the F-16, was shot down by an S-200 system missile,” the statement said. The Russian ministry stressed that the Israelis must have known that the Russian plane was present in the area, which didn't stop them from “the provocation”. Israel also failed to warn Russia about the planned operation in advance. The warning came a minute before the attack started, which “did not leave time to move the Russian plane to a safe area,” the statement said.[52] On 21 September, an Israeli delegation visiting Moscow stated that the Israeli attack formation did not use the Russian Il-20 as a shield during the attacks, while blaming the incident on the Syrian Air Defense Force which fired missiles for forty minutes while the Israeli attack formation had already left the area.[53][54] Russian President Vladimir Putin downplayed the incident saying that "it looks accidental, like a chain of tragic circumstances".[55]

On 1 July 2019, a stray S-200 missile fired from Syria, presumably during bombing raids there, hit Northern Cyprus. The missile hit the ground around 1:00 a.m. near the village of Taşkent, also known as Vouno, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Nicosia. The missile that hit Cyprus was a Russian-made S-200, said the Turkish Cypriot foreign minister.[56]

On 22 April 2021, a stray S-200 missile exploded in the air some 30 kilometers from the Dimona nuclear reactor over Israel. The missile was fired from Dumayr, part of a salvo in response to Israeli jets conducting strikes on targets in the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights. Israeli air defenses tried to intercept the errant missile, but missed. Around an hour later, IDF said Israeli fighter jets struck the air defense battery which launched the missile.[57][58] On 19 August 2021, in response to an Israeli air raid, the Syrian Air Defense fired several Surface to Air missiles at attacking Israeli jets and missiles. One of them, an S-200 due to the range, exploded above the Dead Sea.[59] On 3 September 2021, Syrian army fired a missile over Tel Aviv which landed in Mediterranean Sea. In response to Syrian missile attack, the Israeli Air Force claim destroyed a battery of the Russian-made S-200 missile system of Syrian Army.[60]

Operators

Current operators

•  Algeria – 10
•  Bulgaria – [1] 1[61] battalion.
•  Iran – [1] 10 Upgraded battalions,[62][63] in service. Will be replaced by Sayyad-2/Sayyad-3 (Talash)system.[3]
•  Kazakhstan [1]
•  Myanmar [64][65]
•  North Korea – 4 battalions (2008).[1] 40 systems in 2010 (number of constituent elements is unknown).[66]
•  Poland – 2 squadrons.[1] To be replaced by new anti aircraft systems Wisła.[67]
•  Syria – 2 air defense regiments comprising 02 Div. including 2 S-200 batteries with 2 tech.div inkl. special w.h. (43 launchers / ≈50[68]/ 48[69]) in service as of 2010,[70][71] S-200VE 48 launchers in 2012[72] Syrian Armed Forces constructed a new S-200 site at Kweires Airport, near Dahab, in July 2016.[34] The system is operated by the Syrian Air Defense Force.
•  Turkmenistan [1]
•  Uzbekistan [1]

Former operators

•  Azerbaijan – 1 battalion.
•  Belarus – Approximately 4 battalions..
•  Czechoslovakia – 5 battalions, passed on to successor states.
•  Czech Republic – Inherited all Czechoslovak S-200 SAM systems, out of service since the mid 1990s.[1]
•  East Germany – 4 battalions.
•  Georgia [1]
•  Germany – 4 battalions former GDR, phased out around 1991
•  Hungary – 1 battalion.[1]*
•  India - 2 battalions, got retired in 2015.[73]
•  Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – 8 battalions.[1]
•  Moldova – [1] 1 Battalion
•  Mongolia – The Mongolian People's Army operated 4 battalions armed with S-200 systems in 1985, but it is unlikely there are any operational as of 2011.[74]
•  Russia - No longer in service as of 2014
•  Ukraine – Last division was retired on October 30, 2013 [75]
•  Soviet Union – Originally deployed with the ZA-PVO in the strategic air defense role. It was phased out starting in the 1980s and passed on to the successor states before the phasing out process could be completed.[1]

See also

• S-75 Dvina
• Bloodhound (missile)
• MIM-14 Nike Hercules
• Sayyad-2
• Sayyad-3
• List of NATO reporting names for surface-to-air missiles
• List of surface-to-air missiles

References

External links

• Federation of American Scientists page
• Astronautix.com
• S-200 battalion locations and satellite photos
• S-200 walkaround photos on airforce.ru

На других языках

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[de] S-200

Die S-200 ist ein stationäres allwetterfähiges Langstrecken-Flugabwehrsystem, das in der Sowjetunion entwickelt und erstmals 1967 dort stationiert wurde. Der NATO-Code des Systems lautet SA-5 Gammon.

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- [en] S-200 (missile)

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[fr] S-200

Le S-200 Angara/Vega/Doubna (en russe Ангара\Вега\Дубна) connu sous son code OTAN SA-5 Gammon est un système de missile sol-air de moyenne à haute altitude à très longue portée. Ce système déployé à partir de 1966 a été conçu pour défendre de larges zones des attaques de bombardiers ou d'autres aéronefs stratégiques.

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[it] S-200

L' S-200 (in cirillico: C-200; codice NATO SA-5 Gammon) anche noto con i nominativi Angara, Vega o Dubna a seconda delle versioni, è un sistema missilistico da difesa aerea a lungo raggio di fabbricazione sovietica, progettato per difendere obiettivi sensibili dalle incursioni di bombardieri avversari ed entrato in servizio negli anni sessanta.

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[ru] С-200

С-200 Ангара/Вега/Дубна (по классификации НАТО — SA-5 Gammon «окорок, обман») — советский зенитный-ракетный комплекс (ЗРК) дальнего действия. Предназначен для обороны больших площадей от бомбардировщиков и других стратегических летательных аппаратов.

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