The best pro system Weapon of the century: air defense - missile defense. The most accurate - Trident II D5

MANPADS "Igla-super" is further development line of portable air defense systems, launched by the Igla complex, which was put into service in 1983.

The most combat air defense system: S-75 air defense system
Country: USSR
Adopted: 1957
Rocket type: 13D
Maximum target engagement range: 29-34 km
Target speed: 1500 km/h

John McCain, loser of the past presidential elections in the United States to Barack Obama, is known as an active critic of Russian foreign and domestic policy. It is likely that one of the explanations for such an implacable position of the senator lies in the achievements Soviet designers half a century ago. On October 23, 1967, during the bombing of Hanoi, the plane of a young pilot, who came from the family of hereditary admirals John McCain, was shot down. His "Phantom" got an anti-aircraft guided missile of the S-75 complex. By that time, the Soviet anti-aircraft sword had already caused a lot of trouble for the Americans and their allies. The first "test of the pen" took place in China in 1959, when local air defense, with the help of "Soviet comrades", interrupted the flight of a Taiwanese high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft created on the basis of the British Canberra bomber. The hopes that the more advanced air reconnaissance aircraft, the Lockheed U-2, would be too tough for the red air defense system were also not destined to come true. One was shot down by an S-75 over the Urals in 1961, and the other a year later over Cuba. On account of the legendary anti-aircraft missile, created in the Fakel Design Bureau, many other targets were hit in various conflicts from the Far and Middle East to caribbean, and the S-75 complex itself was destined for a long life in various modifications. We can safely say that this air defense system has gained fame as the most widespread of all air defense systems of this type in the world.

The most high-tech missile defense system: Aegis system ("Aegis")
SM-3 missile

Country: USA
first launch: 2001
Length: 6.55 m
Steps: 3
Range: 500 km
Height of the affected area: 250 km

The main element of this shipborne multifunctional combat information and control system is the AN / SPY radar with four flat headlamps with a power of 4 MW. The Aegis is armed with SM-2 and SM-3 missiles (the latter with the ability to intercept ballistic missiles) with a kinetic or fragmentation warhead. The SM-3 is constantly being modified, and the Block IIA model has already been announced, which will be capable of intercepting ICBMs. On February 21, 2008, an SM-3 missile was fired from the cruiser Lake Erie at pacific ocean and struck an emergency reconnaissance satellite USA-193 located at an altitude of 247 kilometers, moving at a speed of 27,300 km / h.

The newest Russian ZRPK: ZRPK "Shell S-1"
Country Russia

adopted: 2008
Radar: 1RS1-1E and 1RS2 based on HEADLIGHTS
Range: 18 km
Ammunition: 12 missiles 57E6-E
Artillery armament: 30-mm twin anti-aircraft gun

The complex is designed for short-range cover of civilian and military facilities (including air defense systems long range) from all modern and promising funds air attack. It can also protect the defended object from ground and surface threats. Aerial targets include all targets with a minimum reflective surface with speeds up to 1000 m/s, a maximum range of 20000 m and an altitude of up to 15000 m, including helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles and precision bombs.

The most nuclear anti-missile: 51T6 "Azov" transatmospheric interceptor
Country: USSR-Russia

First launch: 1979
Length: 19.8 m
Steps: 2
Starting weight: 45 t
Firing range: 350-500 km
Warhead power: 0.55 Mt

The second-generation (A-135) anti-missile 51T6 ("Azov"), which was part of the missile defense system around Moscow, was developed at the Fakel Design Bureau in 1971-1990. Its tasks included the transatmospheric interception of enemy warheads with the help of an oncoming nuclear explosion. Serial production and deployment of "Azov" was carried out already in the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR. The missile has now been decommissioned.

The most effective portable air defense system: Igla-S MANPADS
Country Russia

designed: 2002
MANPADS "Igla-S"
Destruction range: 6000 m
Defeat altitude: 3500 m
Target speed: 400 m/s
Weight in combat position: 19 kg

According to many experts, the Russian anti-aircraft complex, designed to destroy low-flying air targets various types in conditions of natural (background) and artificial thermal interference, surpasses all analogues existing in the world.

Closest to our borders: SAM Patriot PAC-3
Country: USA

first launch: 1994
Rocket length: 4.826 m
Rocket weight: 316 kg
Warhead weight: 24 kg
Target engagement height: up to 20 km

Created in the 1990s, a modification of the Patriot PAC-3 air defense system is designed to deal with missiles with a range of up to 1000 km. During the test on March 15, 1999, a target missile, which was the 2nd and 3rd stages of the Minuteman-2 ICBM, was destroyed by a direct hit. After the rejection of the idea of ​​the Third position area of ​​the American strategic missile defense system in Europe, Patriot PAC-3 batteries are deployed in Eastern Europe.

Most common anti-aircraft gun: Oerlicon 20 mm anti-aircraft gun

Country: Germany - Switzerland

designed: 1914
Caliber: 20 mm
Rate of fire: 300-450 rds / min
Range: 3-4 km

History of automatic 20mm anti-aircraft gun The Oerlikon, also known as the Becker gun, is the story of one extremely successful design that has spread throughout the world and is still used today, despite the fact that the first sample of this weapon was created by the German designer Reinhold Becker during the First World War. The high rate of fire was achieved due to the original mechanism, in which the percussive ignition of the primer was carried out even before the end of the chambering of the cartridge. Due to the fact that the rights to the German invention were transferred to the SEMAG company from neutral Switzerland, both the Axis countries and the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition produced their versions of the Oerlikons during World War II.

The best anti-aircraft gun of World War II: Anti-aircraft gun 8.8 cm Flugabwehrkanone (FlAK)
Country: Germany
Year: 1918/1936/1937
Caliber: 88 mm
Rate of fire:
15-20 shots / min
Barrel length: 4.98 m
Maximum effective ceiling: 8000 m
Projectile weight: 9.24 kg

One of the best in history anti-aircraft guns, better known as "eight-eight", was in service from 1933 to 1945. It turned out to be so successful that it became the basis for a whole family of artillery systems, including anti-tank and field ones. In addition, the anti-aircraft gun served as a prototype for the guns of the Tiger tank.

The most perspective system Air defense missile defense system: S-400 Triumph air defense system
Country Russia

designed: 1999
Target detection range: 600 km
Number of simultaneously tracked target routes: up to 300 km
Damage range:
Aerodynamic targets - 5-60 km
Ballistic targets - 3-240 km
Defeat height: 10 m - 27 km

Designed to destroy aircraft - jammers, radar detection and control aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, strategic and tactical aircraft, tactical, operational-tactical ballistic missiles, ballistic missiles medium range, hypersonic targets and other modern and advanced means of air attack.

The most versatile anti-missile defense system: S-300VM "Antey-2500"
Country: USSR

designed: 1988
Damage range:
Aerodynamic targets - 200 km
Ballistic targets - up to 40 km
Height of defeat: 25m - 30 km

The mobile universal anti-missile and anti-aircraft system S-300VM "Antey-2500" belongs to a new generation of anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems (PRO-PSO). Antey-2500 is the world's only universal missile defense and air defense system capable of effectively fighting both ballistic missiles with a launch range of up to 2500 km and all types of aerodynamic and aeroballistic targets. The Antey-2500 system is capable of firing simultaneously at 24 aerodynamic targets, including subtle objects, or 16 ballistic missiles flying at speeds up to 4500 m/s.

Today, August 29, on air force base in California, States, the latest secret American technology, the Delta IV spy satellite, was launched. The object is the most powerful rocket in the history of mankind. Its height is 71 meters, engine performance is 17 million horsepower, and one launch of the monster cost the United States one million dollars.

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America has always had a special relationship with worldwide organizations and their big events. Therefore, the owners of powerful rocket in the world decided to launch it on August 29 - the International Day of Action against nuclear testing. The funny thing is that the States never admitted what the purpose of developing, building and launching the Delta IV is.

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Men's online magazine MPORT remembers that not only the States have over powerful weapon. There are many more countries in the world that can also boast of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Find out what you, a peaceful inhabitant of planet Earth, should be most afraid of?

The most mobile - Topol-M

Source: waronline.com

Manufacturer - Russia, the first launch was carried out in 1994. Starting weight - 46 and a half tons. It is considered the basis of Russian nuclear weapons.

The most protected - Yars RS-24

Source: waronline.com

Producer - Russia, first launch - in 2007. Flight range - 11 thousand kilometers. Unlike Topol-M, it has multiple warheads. In addition to warheads, Yars also carries a set of breakthrough means. missile defense, which makes it much more difficult for the enemy to detect and intercept it. This innovation makes the RS-24 the most successful combat missile in the context of the deployment of the global American missile defense system. And you can even place it on a railway car.

The heaviest - R-36M Satan

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First launch - 1970, weight - 211 tons, flight range - 11,200 - 16,000 kilometers. Missile systems placed in mines cannot be too light by definition. Satan just broke the record of all heavyweights.

The most accurate - Trident II D5

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Manufacturer - USA, first launched in 1987. Weight - 58 tons, flight range - 11,300 kilometers. Trident is based on submarines, and is capable of hitting protected ICBM silos and protected command posts with the highest possible accuracy.

The fastest - Minuteman LGM-30G

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Manufacturer - USA, first launch - 1966. The mass of the rocket is 35 and a half tons. Range - 13,000 kilometers. It is believed that this missile is one of the fastest ICBMs in the world and can accelerate to more than 24 thousand kilometers per hour in the terminal phase of the flight.

The most sophisticated - MX (LGM-118А) Peacekeeper

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Manufacturer - USA, first launched in 1983. Weight - 88.44 tons, flight range - 9600 kilometers. The heavy intercontinental ballistic missile Peacemaker is simply the embodiment of the latest technology. For example, the use of composite materials. It also has a higher accuracy of hitting, and - which is especially characteristic - increased "survivability" of the missile under conditions of nuclear impact.

The very first - R-7

People like to compare different things with each other. Who is stronger: an elephant or a whale? Will the weight break through the manhole cover? By the way, the whole sport is built on this. People love to compare military equipment which is better to do on paper than in real combat. Keele Mizokami from the popular magazine The National Interest decided to assemble the top five anti-aircraft missile systems. He made his rating based on the number of shot down targets and the ratio of hits to misses.

SA-75 "Dvina" (according to NATO classification:SA-2 Guidline)

SA-75 "Dvina" is far from a novelty, but it is a record holder in terms of operating time. Developed in 1953, this anti-aircraft missile system has been in continuous operation around the world for over fifty years. Rockets, namely, this complex in 1960, the American spy plane U-2, piloted by Powers, was shot down.

SAM SA-75 "Dvina" formed the basis of air defense North Vietnam during the US aggression against Vietnam. Over the Vietnamese sky was shot down in total about 2,000 American aircraft, including 64 B-52 strategic bombers. "Dvina" is still in service with twenty countries, of course, having undergone several deep upgrades. Well deserved number one.

9K32 Strela (NATO:SA-7 Grail)

9K32 "Strela" is the first generation of Soviet portable anti-aircraft missile systems. In terms of simplicity and cheapness, it can be compared with the AK-47. A supersonic missile is capable of hitting a target at a distance of 3.4 km and an altitude of 1.5 km. This MANPADS is intended to provide protection against low-flying targets. in every battalion Soviet army there were three Arrows.

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The first Soviet MANPADS received its baptism of fire during the war between Egypt and Israel in 1969-1970. The Egyptians shot down 36 enemy aircraft, firing 99 missiles. Weak point of this complex was the guidance of the rocket by the thermal radiation of the engine. Mujahideen in Afghanistan did not like these missiles, saying that they often point at the sun and miss their target.

2K12 "Cube" (NATO:SA-6 Gainful)

Veteran of conflicts in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, "Cube" came to prominence in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War when Egypt invaded the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt had 32 "Cube" batteries, which came as a surprise to the Israeli Air Force, as their radar detection systems did not respond to these SAMs. Thanks to this, the Israelis lost fifty aircraft in the first three days of the war. By the end of the war, Israel had lost 14% of its aircraft fleet.

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SAM 2K12 "Cube" was in service in thirty countries and is still in service in 22. During the war in Persian Gulf Iraqi air defenses shot down two American F-16s. One F-16 fell victim to "Cube" in the skies over Bosnia in 1995. The last aircraft shot down on the account of this air defense system was the Polish Su-22, shot down by mistake by the Polish air defense during the exercises.

The Stinger is a second generation MANPADS that made a name for itself in the mountains of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The Stinger proved to be very effective against Soviet helicopters and aircraft. The effectiveness of the Stingers was due to the fact that he could shoot down aircraft from any angle, and not just from behind.

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The United States began covert deliveries of Stingers to the Afghan Mujahideen in 1986. Five hundred launchers and a thousand missiles were distributed "like candy" to bearded bandits. Total before withdrawal Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the USSR Air Force lost about 270 aircraft.

MIM-104Patriot

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The highly publicized Patriot air defense system first came to prominence during the Gulf War in 1991, when it was used to protect coalition forces and Israeli settlements from Iraqi Scud missiles. The American press praised him greatly, but the real successes were much more modest. Not a single enemy aircraft was shot down, and the effectiveness of hitting Iraqi missiles is estimated at 50%. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Patriot shot down nine targets, two of which were coalition aircraft. In general, the "Patriot" can not boast of either a long service life, or accuracy, or the number of downed aircraft.

Many readers, having reached the end of the article, will undoubtedly wonder where the S-300 and S-400 are on this list, why the formidable Russian complexes Air defense not included in the rating? For such readers, it is necessary to remind once again that the list is compiled by combat effectiveness. Neither the S-300 nor the S-400 took part in the hostilities. Apparently, the very fact that the first three lines in the list of the most effective anti-aircraft missile systems are occupied by Soviet models, as it were, hints that it is better not to mess with modern Russian air defense systems.

The Igla-super portable air defense system is a further development of the line of portable air defense systems launched by the Igla complex, which was put into service in 1983.

The most common and combat air defense system: S-75 air defense system

Country: USSR
Adopted: 1957
Rocket type: 13D
Maximum target engagement range: 29–34 km
Target speed: 1500 km/h

John McCain, who lost the last US presidential election to Barack Obama, is known as an active critic of Russian foreign and domestic policy. It is likely that one of the explanations for such an irreconcilable position of the senator lies in the achievements of Soviet designers half a century ago. On October 23, 1967, during the bombing of Hanoi, the plane of a young pilot, a descendant of the family of hereditary admirals John McCain, was shot down. His "Phantom" got an anti-aircraft guided missile of the S-75 complex.

By that time, the Soviet anti-aircraft sword had already caused a lot of trouble for the Americans and their allies. The first "test of the pen" took place in China in 1959, when local air defense, with the help of "Soviet comrades", interrupted the flight of a Taiwanese high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft created on the basis of the British Canberra bomber. The hopes that the more advanced air reconnaissance aircraft, the Lockheed U-2, would be too tough for the red air defense system were also not destined to come true. One of them was shot down by S-75 over the Urals in 1961, and the other a year later over Cuba.

On account of the legendary anti-aircraft missile, created at the Fakel Design Bureau, many other targets were hit in various conflicts from the Far and Middle East to the Caribbean, and the S-75 complex itself was destined for a long life in various modifications. We can safely say that this air defense system has gained fame as the most widespread of all air defense systems of this type in the world.

The most high-tech missile defense system: the Aegis system ("Aegis")

SM-3 missile
Country: USA
first launch: 2001
Length: 6.55 m
Steps: 3
Range: 500 km
Height of the affected area: 250 km

The main element of this shipborne multifunctional combat information and control system is the AN / SPY radar with four flat headlamps with a power of 4 MW. The Aegis is armed with SM-2 and SM-3 missiles (the latter with the ability to intercept ballistic missiles) with a kinetic or fragmentation warhead.

The SM-3 is constantly being modified, and the Block IIA model has already been announced, which will be capable of intercepting ICBMs. On February 21, 2008, an SM-3 missile was fired from the cruiser Lake Erie in the Pacific Ocean and hit the emergency reconnaissance satellite USA-193, located at an altitude of 247 kilometers, moving at a speed of 27,300 km / h.

The newest Russian ZRPK: ZRPK "Shell S-1"

Country Russia
adopted: 2008
Radar: 1RS1-1E and 1RS2 based on HEADLIGHTS
Range: 18 km
Ammunition: 12 missiles 57E6-E
Artillery armament: 30-mm twin anti-aircraft gun

The "" complex is intended for close protection of civilian and military facilities (including long-range air defense systems) from all modern and promising air attack weapons. It can also protect the defended object from ground and surface threats.

Aerial targets include all targets with a minimum reflective surface with speeds up to 1000 m/s, a maximum range of 20000 m and an altitude of up to 15000 m, including helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles and precision bombs.

The most nuclear anti-missile: 51T6 Azov transatmospheric interceptor

Country: USSR-Russia
First launch: 1979
Length: 19.8 m
Steps: 2
Starting weight: 45 t
Firing range: 350–500 km
Warhead power: 0.55 Mt

The second-generation (A-135) anti-missile 51T6 (“Azov”), which was part of the missile defense system around Moscow, was developed at the Fakel Design Bureau in 1971–1990. Its tasks included the transatmospheric interception of enemy warheads with the help of a counter nuclear explosion. Serial production and deployment of "Azov" was carried out already in the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR. The missile has now been decommissioned.

The most effective portable air defense system: Igla-S MANPADS

Country Russia
designed: 2002
Destruction range: 6000 m
Defeat altitude: 3500 m
Target speed: 400 m/s
Weight in combat position: 19 kg

According to many experts, Russian anti-aircraft complex, designed to destroy low-flying air targets of various types in conditions of natural (background) and artificial thermal interference, surpasses all analogues existing in the world.

Closest to our borders: SAM Patriot PAC-3

Country: USA
first launch: 1994
Rocket length: 4.826 m
Rocket weight: 316 kg
Warhead weight: 24 kg
Target engagement height: up to 20 km

Created in the 1990s, a modification of the Patriot PAC-3 air defense system is designed to deal with missiles with a range of up to 1000 km. During the test on March 15, 1999, a target missile was destroyed by a direct hit, which was the 2nd and 3rd stages of the Minuteman-2 ICBM. After the rejection of the idea of ​​the Third position area of ​​the American strategic missile defense system in Europe, Patriot PAC-3 batteries are deployed in Eastern Europe.

The most common anti-aircraft gun: 20-mm anti-aircraft gun Oerlicon ("Oerlikon")

Country: Germany - Switzerland
Designed: 1914
Caliber: 20mm
Rate of fire: 300-450 rds / min
Range: 3–4 km

The history of the Oerlikon automatic 20 mm anti-aircraft gun, also known as the Becker gun, is the story of one extremely successful design that has spread throughout the world and is still used to this day, despite the fact that the first sample of this weapon was created by a German designer Reinhold Becker during the First World War.

The high rate of fire was achieved due to the original mechanism, in which the impact ignition of the primer was carried out even before the end of the chambering of the cartridge. Due to the fact that the rights to the German invention were transferred to the company SEMAG from neutral Switzerland, both the Axis countries and the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition produced their versions of the Oerlikons during World War II.

The best anti-aircraft gun of World War II: 88-mm anti-aircraft gun Flugabwehrkanone

Country: Germany
Year: 1918/1936/1937
Caliber: 88 mm
Rate of fire: 15-20 rds / min
Barrel length: 4.98 m
Maximum effective ceiling: 8000 m
Projectile weight: 9.24 kg

One of the best anti-aircraft guns in history, better known as the "eight-eight", was in service from 1933 to 1945. It turned out to be so successful that it became the basis for a whole family of artillery systems, including anti-tank and field ones. In addition, the anti-aircraft gun served as a prototype for the guns of the Tiger tank.

The most promising air defense-missile defense system: the S-400 Triumph air defense system

Country Russia
Designed: 1999
Target detection range: 600 km
Damage range:
- aerodynamic targets - 5–60 km
- ballistic targets - 3-240 km
Height of defeat: 10 m - 27 km

The air defense system is designed to destroy aircraft - jammers, radar detection and control aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, strategic and tactical aircraft, tactical, operational-tactical ballistic missiles, medium-range ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets and other modern and advanced air attack weapons. Each air defense system provides simultaneous shelling of up to 36 targets with up to 72 missiles aimed at them.

The most versatile anti-missile defense system: S-300VM "Antey-2500"

Country: USSR
Designed: 1988
Damage range:
Aerodynamic targets - 200 km
Ballistic targets - up to 40 km
Height of defeat: 25m - 30 km

Mobile universal anti-missile and anti-aircraft "Antey-2500" belongs to a new generation of anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems (PRO-PSO). Antey-2500 is the world's only universal missile defense and air defense system capable of effectively fighting both ballistic missiles with a launch range of up to 2,500 km and all types of aerodynamic and aeroballistic targets.

The Antey-2500 system is capable of firing simultaneously at 24 aerodynamic targets, including subtle objects, or 16 ballistic missiles flying at speeds up to 4500 m/s.

/Based on materials popmech.ru And topwar.ru /

In the coming year, as, indeed, in the past, the new generation Verba portable anti-aircraft missile system (MANPADS) of the new generation "Verba" will enter the Russian Armed Forces. This unique product was developed by the specialists of Kolomna JSC NPK Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering, which is part of JSC NPO High-precision complexes Rostec State Corporation.

Brigades are primarily armed with a novelty ground forces(motorized rifle and tank), as well as airborne divisions.

The means of the complex are supplied to the troops in kits, which include not only the MANPADS itself, maintenance equipment, training equipment, but also detection equipment with the Barnaul-T automated control system.

"Verba" adopted Russian army in 2015. And it became a sensation already at the first public demonstration during the Army-2015 International Military-Technical Forum in Kubinka near Moscow. This MANPADS in its characteristics and capabilities surpasses all similar products that are in service with the countries of the world.

AND ONE WARRIOR IN THE FIELD

The portable anti-aircraft missile system as such is designed to be fired by one person. How can one not recall the textbook: "And one warrior in the field." For a better understanding of the essence of this unique - a little.

MANPADS with guided missiles (and this is fundamentally new step in the armament of the army) were first used in 1969 in the Arab-Israeli "war of attrition". These were the Soviet "Strela-2". In one day, they destroyed three Israeli aircraft A4 Skyhawk. And only three missiles. The result shocked military experts. In the same battle, two missiles were fired at Mirage III aircraft, but the targets were outside the affected area.

A few years earlier there was american complex"Red Eye". And since those years, MANPADS have been actively used around the world.

Portable complexes harmoniously fit into network-centric and hybrid wars. They were originally created to cover ground military formations and over half a century of their existence have more than proved that they are equal combat units. modern army. They are still idolized today for their simplicity and efficiency. Over the history of their existence, Soviet and then Russian MANPADS shot down more than 700 aircraft. Used in Egypt, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia to protect military units in the Peruvian conflict.

The famous "Stinger" loudly made itself felt in Afghanistan, starting in 1986. These MANPADS shot down more than a hundred Soviet aircraft and helicopters. Groups of our special forces hunted for the Stinger. In a short time, several missiles were captured, which were subsequently taken to the USSR and used to create countermeasure systems.

APPEARANCES ARE DECEPTIVE

The creators of the first domestic MANPADS are brilliant designers Boris Shavyrin and Sergei Invincible. I was lucky to be accompanied by KBM employees in the apartment of Invincible in a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment a few years before the death of the master of the defense industry. I remember the majestic figure, the sparkle of a fanatic in his eyes, magnetism. And - an incredible amount of knowledge poured onto the interlocutor by a waterfall.

MANPADS are just one of almost three dozen brainchildren of the Invincible, and hence the KBM. Among them are the Oka operational-tactical missile system, which was replaced by the Iskander, the active protection tanks "Arena", all-weather anti-tank missile system "Chrysanthemum-S" and much more. Today, the general designer of KBM is a student and follower of the Invincible Valery Kashin. Under his leadership, Igla-S was created, the development of which was Verba.

With the outward similarity of the novelty with its predecessors, this is a completely different weapon, with new characteristics. "Verba" is able to successfully hit not only traditional air targets - airplanes and helicopters, but also the so-called low-radiation targets - cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Its differences from its predecessor are significant. For the first time in the world, a fundamentally new homing head is installed on the product - an optical three-band (or three-spectral): it works in ultraviolet, near infrared and middle infrared bands. This allows you to get more information about the target, which makes the complex a "selective" weapon.

The three sensors are constantly rechecking each other, making it difficult aircraft against which the missile is directed, mislead it by using decoys. The homing head automatically performs the "selection" of false thermal targets (interference) and focuses on the object, albeit not with the strongest thermal radiation, but exactly on the one that needs to be hit. The sensitivity of the missile's homing head has been increased eight (!) times. Accordingly, the zone for capturing and destroying air targets has also grown: in comparison with the MANPADS of the previous generation Igla-S, by 2.5 times. The complex is equipped with a night vision sight "Mowgli-2".

The automated control system allows you to detect air targets, including group ones, determine the parameters of their flight, and even distribute targets among the shooters. The new rocket engine allows you to shoot at an object located at a distance of 6 km from the shooter. The height of the defeat is from 10 m to 3.5 km. Weight launcher with a power source and a rocket inside in a firing position - only 17.25 kg.

In a word, we are talking about a unique innovative technology. The rocket, according to the general designer of KBM Valery Kashin, is "completely digital", it is sealed, materials that are insensitive to aggressive environments are used for its manufacture. In flight, the rocket is controlled autonomously. The homing system is designed to deceive anti-missile target systems. The fighter is required to press the start, and then the rocket will do everything itself. The "friend or foe" recognition system significantly reduces the risk of hitting friendly aircraft.

COMPETITORS HAVE BEEN YEARS AWAY

MANPADS "Verba" can be used not only from the shoulder. In the future, it is possible to install turrets with the Verba missile on ships and helicopters. MANPADS "Igla-S" is used as part of the ship installations "Gibka" and in sets of autonomous modules "Sagittarius" on combat helicopters. “Verba” will go the same way,” Valery Kashin said the other day. Moreover, according to him, the Verba MANPADS was developed from the very beginning, taking into account the possibility of using it, in addition to the one named, on “other movable military equipment.” Which one is left to guess.

In terms of its characteristics, the Verba complex surpasses not only the Igla-1, Igla, Igla-S MANPADS in service with the Russian army, but also their foreign counterparts - the American Stinger Block I and the Chinese QW-2. The American MANPADS significantly loses to the Verba in all respects.

The Russian government has allowed the novelty to be sold abroad, there is already a foreign buyer. Manufacturers, however, do not say yet who exactly. The US military has named a new Russian MANPADS one of the most “disturbing” types of weapons, and their export is a “potentially threatening event”. Russia has created the most dangerous anti-aircraft system in history, writes the American edition of Business Insider.

The Israelis were also worried about the prospect of selling Verba. They say: "Verba" is able to break the opposition of most of the defensive systems of Western armies. In local conflicts of the last three decades, the greatest danger to military aviation represented precisely portable anti-aircraft missile systems.

The Israeli government has decided to equip the aircraft fleet with DIRCM directional infrared countermeasures systems to protect against MANPADS. This system combines passive, optical missile detection detectors and directional, infrared countermeasures. The developers of the system claim that a laser beam disrupts the attack of a missile fired at an aircraft and forces it to deviate from its course. Perhaps these threats apply to MANPADS early models, but not on Verba, according to Russian military experts with whom the author spoke.

Numerous exercises underway Russian troops confirm: "Verba" confidently destroys targets that mimic attack drones, helicopters and assault aircraft of a mock enemy. This MANPADS operates at the maximum maximum ranges and altitudes, on head-on and overtaking courses.

The quality and reliability of the complex have been significantly improved, its operation, maintenance and training have been simplified. Gradually, "Verba" will replace all MANPADS of earlier types. This will make it possible to completely unify the arsenals of the types and types of troops for this type of weapon.