Originally Posted By: piston79
Shilka's nemesis:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/docs/1helfire.pdf


Development of the 2K22 "Tunguska" was started by the command of the USSR State commission from June 8 1970, and was intended to replace the ZSU-23-4 Shilka/Biryusa and the 9K33 Strela-1 (SA-9) / 9K35 Strela-10 (SA-13) systems with a common platform, capable of surviving the then new A-10A Thunderbolt, and US Army helicopters firing anti-armour missiles, such as the TOW equipped AH-1S and Hellfire equipped AH-64A Apache.

Tunguska was designed with a minimum range of 8km...

... Shilka facing ATGM:



Last edited by Hpasp; 01/13/13 05:08 PM.
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