I'm not an expert in the slightest, so I could be wrong. But isn't the SA-1 manned by a lot of people? I've read it's capable of engaging a large number of targets at once. It could be out of the ability of a single person to operate.

Wow! That's crazy. I also read that the system was meant to defend against a THOUSAND BOMBER RAID; so yeah.. i guess it's beyond the ability of one person. But then again, i would think that of the SA-5! I wonder if it would be impossible to make the system work with a single console.. anyhow; it's an interesting thought, i would sure pay to handle that thousand-bomber raid. I understand that "Strategic" SAM's like the SA-5 (my hat off and a bow to those analogue-wizards who can operate it!!), SA-1, SA-10 and such are meant to be handled with a team. An interesting idea for a multiplayer mode, no? Thanks, Hpasp; you are the man!

I was just wondering if Mr. Hpasp, or anyone, knows if it would be possible to include the S-25 Berkut; the earliest soviet SAM. I understand it would be like an older SA-2F, and that documentation and reference for it may be unexistant; but still i wonder if it's possible. I'm intrigued at how this system would work compared to the S-75




http://bobrowen.com/nymas/defendingthekremlin.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/s-25.htm
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Rus-SAM-Site-Configs-A.html#mozTocId357043

Patriot weapon system is operated by one officer only (TCA).
The other is only overlooking his activity (TCO), while the third is operating the radio.

Screen indicators workstation operator guidance and start

azimuthal screen on left and elevation screen on right
Range scale vertical

1. The operator controlled label target lock;
2. The target mark;
3. The target mark followed by the current group channel;
4. The target mark followed by the other group channel;
5. Waiting gates for capture targets;
6. Missile marks and its accompanying Gates.

What book is this photo from?

Maybe you know, why a pair of antennas, not a single one (with faster rpm?) Maybe one was on receive while another was on transmit? (in that case, the metal casing should protect the receiving antenna from microwave leakage I assume).

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Also two complete yo-yo's scan volume in two axes (one for elevation and one for azimuth), similar to wide angle antennas of S-75.

It will take some time 'til I'll figure out how that Lewis scanner thing works!

Back to B200 topic: 5 scans per sec means a target at 300 m/s moves 60 m away per scan (if flying in perpendicular direction to C-25 site). Would that be too inaccurate even for a B-52, unless you have an interpolating computer or a nuke warhead?

It is well known, that around Moscow, more than 500km motorway rings were built, for the missile replenishment...

Still cannot figure it out how U-2 get behind the "herring bone" in such "bone-yard"

If there would be an S-25 SAMSIM, than it would be surely included as a challenging scenario.
We know its track, it simply followed the Minsk-Moscow rail track towards the Myasishchev factory in Fili.

Sankt Petersburg (Leningrad then) would be an obvious choice...

Washington, D.C., December 22, 2015 - The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956 and published today for the first time by the National Security Archive www.nsarchive.org, provides the most comprehensive and detailed list of nuclear targets and target systems that has ever been declassified. As far as can be told, no comparable document has ever been declassified for any period of Cold War history...

The SAC document includes lists of more than 1100 airfields in the Soviet bloc, with a priority number assigned to each base. With the Soviet bomber force as the highest priority for nuclear targeting (this was before the age of ICBMs), SAC assigned priority one and two to Bykhov and Orsha airfields, both located in Belorussia. At both bases, the Soviet Air Force deployed medium-range Badger (TU-16) bombers, which would have posed a threat to NATO allies and U.S. forces in Western Europe.

A second list was of urban-industrial areas identified for “systematic destruction.” SAC listed over 1200 cities in the Soviet bloc, from East Germany to China, also with priorities established. Moscow and Leningrad were priority one and two respectively. Moscow included 179 Designated Ground Zeros (DGZs) while Leningrad had 145, including “population” targets. In both cities, SAC identified air power installations, such as Soviet Air Force command centers, which it would have devastated with thermonuclear weapons early in the war...

To deliver the weapons to targets, SAC would use bombs and missiles. For bomber delivery systems, SAC would use B-47s, based in the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Spain, and intercontinental B-52s, which were just beginning to be deployed in the continental U.S.

SAC listed four missile types for delivering nuclear warheads: the Snark, the Rascal, the Cross Bow, and IRBM [Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile]. The Snark, an early intercontinental ground-launched cruise missile, was only briefly deployed, during 1959, because it was a fiasco (areas in the Atlantic Oceans where the missiles crashed were called “Snark infested waters”). The Rascal (replaced by the Hound Dog in 1958) and Cross Bow were both bomber-launched missiles, with the Crossbow targeting radars.

President Eisenhower had made IRBMs, along with ICBMs, a national priority, but in 1956 the IRBM was still projected for the future. With a range of up to 1700 miles (1500 n.m.), deployment overseas would be necessary and the Air Force envisaged stationing them in the United Kingdom, although talks with the British had yet to begin. The Air Force would eventually deploy liquid-fueled Thor IRBMs in the United Kingdom during 1960-1963, while Jupiter missiles were stationed in Italy and Turkey during 1961-1963 (removed as part of the Cuban Missile crisis settlement).[12]

SAC also identified the atomic bombs and the thermonuclear weapons that would be mated to the delivery systems. They would be Mark 6 (B and C) atomic weapons and Mark 15, 27, and 36 thermonuclear weapons. The latter had extraordinarily massive explosive yields: MK 15: 1.6 to 3.9 megatons; MK 27: 2 megatons, and MK 36: 9 to 10 megatons. These compare with the size of the U.S. nuclear tests in Operation Castle during 1954, in which actual explosive yields (not counting one fizzle) ranged from 1.7 to 15 megatons...

Thanks

How does it work at S-25? There are just two antennas for epsilon and beta. What is the source of the second signal?

Can you drop me this album?

Im also interested in any guidance panel (and panel screen), and also any outside photo of the bunker.