2K12 Kub
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1960s self-propelled surface-to-air missile system
Key facts
- Type
- Tracked medium-range surface-to-air missile system
- Place of origin
- Soviet Union
- In service
- 1967–present
- Used by
- See list of operators
- Wars
- List Yom Kippur War Angolan Civil War Chadian Civil War Western Sahara War Iran–Iraq War 1982 Lebanon War Gulf War Yugoslav wars Kosovo War Syrian Civil War Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
- Designer
- NIIP / Vympel MMZ ( GM chassis )
- Designed
- 1958–1967
- Manufacturer
- Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant (SURNs) ZiK (TELs)
- Produced
- 1968–1985
- Number span no built
- 500 launchers, 10,000 missiles
- Variants
- 2K12 Kub, 2K12E Kvadrat (export version), 2K12M3, 2K12M4
- Main armament
- 3 3M9M4(or variants) guided missiles
- Engine
- integral rocket motor/ ramjet booster and sustainer motor
- Guidance system
- command guidance with terminal semi-active radar homing (SARH)
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Russian manufacturer MMZ.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2K12 Kub” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.