military technology is becoming more and more meticulous countries like the u.s russia and china
are introducing new and advanced air defense systems for protection against incoming fighter
planes and missiles an air defense system is a weapon or technology that is used to detect track
intercept and destroy enemy air attack weapons such as airplanes helicopters rockets and missiles
in this video we will take a look at one of the most dangerous soviet air defensive systems
the tour is a soviet air defense missile system it is known in the west as sa-15 or gauntlet
development of this surface-to-air missile system commenced in 1975
it was developed as a successor to the sa-8 gecko
the main goal was to shoot down air-launched cruise missiles
it entered service with the soviet army in 1986
after collapse of the soviet union these missile systems
were passed on to russia and ukraine and possibly belarus
this system can engage all kinds of modern air targets
it is used against aircraft helicopters drones various missiles and precision guided munitions
the tor can also detect and intercept anti-radiation missiles
basically it destroys targets that long and medium-range air defense systems fail to hit
the tour combat vehicle has radar and missiles based on a single vehicle the teller vehicle
carries eight missiles missiles are launched vertically the same launch manner was used on the
s-300 long-range air defense missile system though missiles of the tor have a rather short range
this air defense system uses 9m 330 missiles missiles have radio command guidance maximum
range of fire is 5 to 12 kilometers and maximum altitude is 4 to 6 kilometers depending on the
target speed the original tour can engage only one target at a time kill probability
with a single missile is 26 to 75 percent against aircraft 50 to 88 percent against helicopters and
to 95 percent against uav this figure depends on the target altitude the higher the target
more chances that it will be hit radar of the tour detects aircraft at a range of 25 to 27 kilometers
helicopters at a range of 12 kilometers and uab at a range of 9 to 15 kilometers
tracking range is about 20 kilometers system can search for targets while on the move
the tour has a brief reaction time it takes only 8 to 12 seconds from target detection to launch
the teller vehicle can stop and launch its missiles within three minutes from traveling
the teller vehicle has a crew of three including commander operator and driver
all systems are highly automated leaving the crew little to do
the teller vehicle is based on a gm3 555 special track chassis
this chassis can carry a lot of payload and has good cross-country mobility
a number of other soviet air defense vehicles were based on essentially similar
chassis it is powered by a v4 to 6 2 s1 multi-fuel diesel engine developing 780 horsepower vehicle
has a hydra pneumatic suspension with adjustable ground clearance it is fitted with auxiliary gas
turbine power unit which powers all systems when the main engine is shut down this air
defense missile system operates in batteries a battery consists of four teller vehicles
also there are reloading vehicles trucks carrying reload missiles and other support vehicles
since 1989 tor battery is also supported by ranger mobile command post usually a battery
of tor operates independently though this system can use target data from other surveillance radars
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