Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
Unknown to most people is the fact that most Surface to Air Missile (SAM) systems have a secondary ground to ground capability.
I am not very familiar with the Krug system, but I know that the older S-75 (SA-2) of the Vietnam war era has an anti ground targeting mode called "Zemlya" in Russian. The system can fire accurately against targets of known coordinates (such as a building) for ranges upto 20 km.
Furthermore, the Iranians have modified some of their Chinese made copies of S-75 missiles into ground to ground role with ranges extending several dozens of kilometers.
By the way, the S-75 system is the photo in my avatar.
So, yes, if our Krugs are replaced with S-300s. We can find a few good uses for them. The beauty of the track mouted Krug is its mobility. It can drive on any terrain and launch its missiles (that have a nice big fat juicy warhead) against some key targets. Sort of a Tochka missile of fortune.
Originally posted by Vrej1915
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I am not very familiar with the Krug system, but I know that the older S-75 (SA-2) of the Vietnam war era has an anti ground targeting mode called "Zemlya" in Russian. The system can fire accurately against targets of known coordinates (such as a building) for ranges upto 20 km.
Furthermore, the Iranians have modified some of their Chinese made copies of S-75 missiles into ground to ground role with ranges extending several dozens of kilometers.
By the way, the S-75 system is the photo in my avatar.
So, yes, if our Krugs are replaced with S-300s. We can find a few good uses for them. The beauty of the track mouted Krug is its mobility. It can drive on any terrain and launch its missiles (that have a nice big fat juicy warhead) against some key targets. Sort of a Tochka missile of fortune.
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