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SAM-6

2K12 Kub
NATO reporting name: SA-6 "Gainful"
2P25 VS 2.jpg
2P25 TEL with missiles elevated
Type Tracked medium-range surface-to-air missile system
Place of origin Soviet Union
Service history
In service 1970–present
Used by See list of operators
Wars Yom Kippur War
Angolan Civil War
Chadian Civil War
Western Sahara War
Iran–Iraq War
1982 Lebanon War
Gulf War
Yugoslav wars
Production history
Designer NIIP/Vympel
MMZ (GM chassis)
Designed 1959
Manufacturer Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant (SURNs)
ZiK (TELs)
Produced 1968–1985
No. built 500 launchers, 10 000 missiles
Variants 2K12 Kub, 2K12E Kvadrat (export version), 2K12M3, 2K12M4
Specifications (2K12 Kub)

Main
armament
3 9M336 (or variants) guided missiles
Engine integral rocket motor/ramjet booster and sustainer motor
Guidance
system
command guidance with terminal semi-active radar homing (SARH)
External images
Photo of one of the Buk prototype, based on Kub components
Photo of one of the Buk prototype, based on Kub components (sideview)
3M9
2P25 2K12 VS3.jpg
Type Surface-to-air missile
Place of origin Soviet Union
Production history
Variants 3M9, 3M9M1, 3M9M3, 3M9M4
Specifications (3M9)
Weight 599 kg
Length 5,800 mm
Diameter 335 mm
Warhead Frag-HE
Warhead weight 59 kg
Detonation
mechanism
Contact and proximity

Wingspan 1.245 m
Propellant integral rocket motor/ramjet booster and sustainer motor
Operational
range
24 kilometres (15 mi)
Flight altitude Max. 14,000 metres (46,000 ft)
Min. 100 metres (330 ft)
Speed Mach 2.8
Guidance
system
semi-active radar homing
Launch
platform
2P25 TEL
IVC 3M20M3 Peniye
Type Surface-to-air missile training target imitator system
Place of origin Soviet Union/ Russia
Specifications
Weight 600 kg
Length 5841 mm
Warhead no

Wingspan 932 mm
Propellant integral rocket motor/ramjet booster and sustainer motor
Operational
range
24 kilometres (15 mi)
Flight altitude 500 metres (1,600 ft) – 6,000 metres (20,000 ft)
Speed 200–600 m/s
Guidance
system
semi-active radar homing
Launch
platform
2P25 TEL

The 2K12 "Kub" (Russian: 2К12 "Куб"; English: cube) (NATO reporting name: SA-6 "Gainful") mobile surface-to-air missile system is a Soviet low to medium-level air defence system designed to protect ground forces from air attack. "2К12" is the GRAU designation of the system.

Each 2K12 battery consists of a number of similar tracked vehicles, one of which carries the 1S91 (SURN vehicle, NATO designation "Straight Flush") 25 kW G/H band radar (with a range of 75 km (47 mi)) equipped with a continuous wave illuminator, in addition to an optical sight. The battery usually also includes four triple-missile transporter erector launchers (TELs), and four trucks, each carrying three spare missiles and a crane. The TEL is based on a GM-578 chassis, while the 1S91 radar vehicle is based on a GM-568 chassis, all developed and produced by MMZ.

The development of the 2K12 was started after 18 July 1958 at the request of the CPSU Central Committee. The system was set the requirements of being able to engage aerial targets flying at speeds of 420 to 600 m/s (820–1,170 kn) at altitudes of 100 to 7,000 m (330 to 22,970 ft) at ranges up to 20 km (12 mi), with a single shot kill probability of at least 0.7.

The systems design was the responsibility of the now Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (NIIP). In addition to NIIP several other design bureaus were involved in the creation of the Kub missile system including Mytishchi Machine-Building Plant which designed and produced the chassis of the self-propelled components. Many of the design bureaus would later go on to co-operate in the development of the successor to the 2K12 "Kub", the 9K37 "Buk"


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