S-75 Dvina
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surface-to-air missile system
Key facts
- Type
- Strategic SAM system
- Place of origin
- Soviet Union
- In service
- 1957–present
- Used by
- See list of present and former operators
- Designer
- Raspletin KB-1 (head developer), Grushin MKB Fakel (missile developer), Lavochkin OKB
- Designed
- 1953–1957
- Number span no built
- Approx 4,600 launchers produced
- Variants
- SA-75 Dvina, S-75 Desna, S-75M Volkhov/Volga
- Mass
- 2,300 kg (5,100 lb)
- Length
- 10,600 mm (34 ft 9 in)
- Diameter
- 700 mm (28 in)
- Warhead
- Frag-HE
- Warhead weight
- 195 kg (430 lb)
- Detonation mechanism
- Command
- Propellant
- Solid-fuel booster and a storable liquid-fuel upper stage
- Operational range
- 45 km (28 mi)
- Flight altitude
- 25,000 m (82,000 ft)
- Boost time
- 5 seconds boost, then 20 seconds sustain
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- surface-to-air missile
- Named after
- Daugava
- Operator
- Soviet Air Defence Forces
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Developer
- Aleksandr Raspletin
- Diameter
- 700
- Mass
- 2300
- Conflict
- Vietnam War
- Image
- S-75 Dzwina RB2.jpg
- Length
- 10.60
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- S-75 Dvina
- NATO reporting name
- Guideline
- service entry
- 1957-01-01
- total produced
- 4600
- Commons gallery
- S-75
- vehicle range
- 45
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Encyclopedic overview
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The S-75 (Russian: С-75; NATO reporting name SA-2 Guideline) is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude air defence system. It is built around a surface-to-air missile with command guidance. Following its first deployment in 1957 it became one of the most widely deployed air defence systems in history. It scored the first destruction of an enemy aircraft by a surface-to-air missile, with the shooting down of a Taiwanese Martin RB-57D Canberra over China on 7 October 1959 that was hit by a salvo of three V-750 (1D) missiles at an altitude of 20 km (66,000 ft). This success was credited to Chinese fighter aircraft at the time to keep the S-75 program secret.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S-75 Dvina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.