SA-12 (S-300V) Gladiator Missile
The missile is designed to engage both modern and prospective air targets, including strategic, tactical and naval aircraft, strategic cruise missiles, air-launched missiles, tactical and battlefield ballistic missiles and other air attack weapons over a wide range of combat environments.
The 5V55R is a single-stage missile employing the normal aerodynamic configuration, with control surfaces unfolded after launch.
The missile is kept in a hermetically sealed launch canister and need not be tested and adjusted during its service life.
The missile is equipped with a highly efficient solid-propellant motor and comprises sections housing a radio direction finder, onboard control units (made as a monoblock), high-explosive fragmentation warhead, solid-propellant motor and control surface actuators.
The missile is launched vertically by the canister catapult without a preliminary turn of the launcher toward the target.
After ignition of the motor, the missile is tilted in the required direction depending on the target position.
The missile employs the track-via-missile guidance principle.
The high maneuverability of the missile and powerful high-explosive fragmentation warhead provide effective target destruction.
SA-12A (S-300)Specifications
Range: 6-75 km
Altitude: 25 km
Speed: 1.7 km/sec
Warhead: 150 kg High-Explosive
Command guidance: Combined, inertial with semi-active self-guidance
Radar(s): GRILL PAN missile guidance radar, BILL BOARD surveillance radar, HIGH SCREEN sector scan radar
Time to deploy: 5 minutes
Support vehicles: TELAR, Transloader, command post
Chassis: Variations of the MT-T chassis are used for the launch vehicle, loader-launcher vehicle, missile guidance station, command post vehicle, and the radars.
SA-12B (S-300)Specifications
Range: 3-100 km
Altitude: 1-30 km
Speed: 2.4 km/sec
Warhead: 150 kg High-Explosive
Command guidance: Combined, inertial with semi-active self-guidance
Radar(s): GRILL PAN missile guidance radar, BILL BOARD surveillance radar, HIGH SCREEN sector scan radar
Time to deploy: 5 minutes
Support vehicles: TELAR, Transloader, command post
Chassis: Variations of the MT-T chassis are used for the launch vehicle, loader-launcher vehicle, missile guidance station, command post vehicle, and the radars.
SA-N-6 (S-300F) De***ions
The S-300F Fort (Russian C-300Ф Форт, DoD designation SA-N-6, F suffix for Flot, Russian for fleet) was introduced in 1984 as the original ship-based (naval) version of the S-300P system with the new 5V55RM missile with range extended to 7-90 km (4-56 mi) and maximum target speed up to Mach 4 while engagement altitude was reduced to 25-25,000 m (100-82,000 ft). The naval version utilises the Top Sail or Top Steer, Top Pair and 3R41 Volna (Top Dome) radar and utilises command guidance with a terminal semi-active radar homing (SARH) mode. Its first installation and sea trials were on a Kara class cruiser and it is also installed on Slava class cruisers and Kirov class battlecruisers. It is stored in eight (Slava) or twelve (Kirov) 8-missile rotary launchers below decks. The export version of this system is known as Rif (Russian Риф — reef). The S-300FM Fort-M (Russian C-300ФМ, DoD designation SA-N-20) is another naval version of the system, installed only on the Kirov class cruiser RFS Pyotr Velikiy, and introduced the new 48N6 missile in the form of the 48N6Ye. It was introduced in 1990 and increased missile speed to approximately Mach 6 for a maximum target engagement speed of up to Mach 8.5, increased the warhead size to 150 kg (330 lb) and increased the maximum engagement range yet again to 5-150 km (3-93 mi) as well as opening the altitude envelope to 10m-27 km (33-88500 ft). The new missiles also introduced the ultimate track-via-missile guidance method and brought with it the ability to intercept short-range ballistic missiles. This system makes use of the Tomb Stone rather than Top Dome radar, which was subsequently developed in a land-based form. The export version is called the Rif-M.
Both naval versions are believed to include a secondary infrared terminal seeker, similar to the newer US Standard missile system, probably to reduce the system's vulnerability to saturation. This also allows the missile to engage contacts over the radar horizon, such as warships or sea-skimming anti-ship missiles.