History of air defense systems

[molnibalage]

In Hungarian I wrote a long book with some other guys about military aviation, SAMs and related topics.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/f5i2wh4wk ... obarat.pdf

I started to translate to English the book, first the history and capabilities of Soviet-Russian SAMs. Here are the translated parts:

Main download directory.
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/ibpuhag ... szefoglalo

S-25 Berkut (SA-1)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zz11ezskj ... family.pdf

SA-75/S-75 Dvina, Desna, Volkhov (SA-2) (+attchment)
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/5n9dmdz ... -75_family

S-125 Neva (SA-3)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/57q0rx5ah ... family.pdf

S-200 Angara, Vega, Dubna (SA-5)
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/1cu0ibv ... 200_family

S-300, S-400 (SA-10, SA-20)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/6vau4j64u ... family.pdf

History of IADS & GCI
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/9h98bai ... ADS%2C_GCI

Nike & BOMARC
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/9bze1a1 ... %26_BOMARC

HAWK
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/wb6867cclb8d9/HAWK

Patriot
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/pmj8ervb87x2j/Patriot

F-117 vs S-125
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/zkcw69g ... 7_vs_S-125

XXI. century
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/cdpv256 ... I._century

Army air defense + threat of drones
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/74s425m ... ir_defense

Translation progress
~40%

The physics background and other things (beams, sidelobes, target discrimination within the lobe, guidance types, leading types, missile trajectory, explanation of different type of engagement zone, etc) are explained in other sections. Because of this maybe won't be fully understandable everything but hopefully they are still worth reading.

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First post is updated with history of S-200 (SA-5).
A fixed version of S-75 is uploaded, the table with missile variants had some typing errors.
Next will be history of IADS and GCI.

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First post is updated with IADS and CGI.
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/9h98bai ... ADS%2C_GCI

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New materials are added Nike Ajax, Nike Hercules & BOMARC + HAWK.

[steppewolf]

Great read, thank you for sharing molni

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First post is updated with 3 new entries and link for the main DL directory.
I forgot to update the list for a while.

Translation of army air defence is progress.

[molnibalage]

The Army air defense chapter is about 100 pages long therefore I translate step by steps. I decided I start with equipment then will come the structure and organizational and other related topics. So far the listed have been translated. You can find here the translated parts of army air defense.
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/ibpuhag ... szefoglalo

2K12 Kub (SA-6) family
9K33 Osa (SA-8) family
9K331/32 Tor (SA-15) family
2K12 Krug (SA-4) family

When will be finished the whole chapter will be packed into a single pdf.

[molnibalage]

2K12 Krug is done.

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SA-11/17 Buk family is done. Happy new year.

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9K81/9K81M S-300V/VM (SA-12/23) is added. New folder is created for army air defense.
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/74s425m ... ir_defense

Some attachments were added concerning to Buk, S-300V and 2K12 Krug.