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Encyclopedia > 9K330 Tor
A 9K330 TELAR. Photo from Field Artillery Magazine.
A 9K330 TELAR. Photo from Field Artillery Magazine.

The Antey 9K330/9K331/9K332 "Tor" (Russian 9К330/9К331/9К332 "Тор" – torus, NATO reporting name SA-15 Gauntlet and SA-N-9 Gauntlet) is a low to medium-altitude, short-range surface-to-air missile system designed for engaging airplanes, helicopters, cruise missiles, precision guided munitions, unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic targets. It is designed to protect targets from attack at all times and in any weather, not only by shooting down attacking aircraft but also by destroying any munitions before they reach their target. It is air-portable and equipped with NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) protection. Image File history File links This image was downloaded from http://sill-www. ... Image File history File links This image was downloaded from http://sill-www. ... A Russian SA-4 TEL. Photo by GulfLINK. A Russian SA-8 TELAR. Photo by Naval Expeditionary Warfare Training. ... Main Agency of Missiles and Artillery of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (Главное ракетно-артиллерийское управление МО РФ, ГРАУ) is a department of Soviet/Russian Ministry of Defense which is subordinated to the Chief of Armament and Munition of the Armed Forces, vice-minister of defense (начальник вооружения ВС РФ - заместитель Министра обороны РФ). In particular, the GRAU is responsible for assignment... NATO reporting names were code names for Soviet and Chinese military equipment. ... Akash Missile Firing French Air Force Crotale battery Bendix Rim-8 Talos surface to air missile of the US Navy A surface-to-air missile (SAM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft. ... This article refers to the tool of travel. ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors. ... A Tomahawk cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile which uses a lifting wing and most often a jet propulsion system to allow sustained flight. ... BOLT-117 laser guided bomb Precision-guided munitions (smart munitions or smart bombs) are self-guiding weapons intended to maximize damage to the target while minimizing collateral damage. Because the damage effects of an explosive weapon scale as a power law with distance, quite modest improvements in accuracy (and hence... Unmanned Aerial Vehicle over Iraq. ... NBC (an abbreviation for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center and is shown on basic cable in Canada. ...

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Specifications

A 9K332 TELAR with tracking radar covered. Photo by GulfLINK.
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A 9K332 TELAR with tracking radar covered. Photo by GulfLINK.

Each 9K331 vehicle is a completely autonomous TELAR, although it can be linked into a wider air defense system. It carries a modern, phased array radar and 8 missiles which are stored vertically, ready to fire. Target tracking range is 24 km (15 miles), engagement range is up to 12 km (1-7.5 miles) with minimum range varying between 100-2000 m (328-5,621 feet), depending upon version, and effective altitude is 10-6000 m (33-20,000 ft). The 9K331 TELAR uses the same chassis as the 2S6/9M111 "Tunguska" (Russian: Тунгуска – "Tunguska" is a siberian river, NATO reporting name SA-19 "Grisom") integrated air defense system. Reaction time (from target detection to engagement) is stated as a rapid 5-8 seconds. Targets can be acquired and tracked while the TELAR is moving and missiles can be fired without stopping; However, the reaction time is somewhat longer (around 10 seconds rather than 4) whilst in motion. An APU (auxiliary power unit) is fitted so that the main engine can be shut down while the radar and missile systems continue to operate when stationary, enabling long periods of readiness. Image File history File links A U.S. military photo taken from http://www. ... Image File history File links A U.S. military photo taken from http://www. ... A Russian SA-4 TEL. Photo by GulfLINK. A Russian SA-8 TELAR. Photo by Naval Expeditionary Warfare Training. ... A giant phased-array radar in Alaska In telecommunication, a phased array is a group of antennas in which the relative phases of the respective signals feeding the antennas are varied in such a way that the effective radiation pattern of the array is reinforced in a desired direction and... The Tunguska Integrated Air Defence System. ... APU may refer to: Anglia Polytechnic University, now known as Anglia Ruskin University. ...


The computer control of the Tor system is a giant leap for SovietRussian technology. The digital computers allow for a high degree of automation, similar to the US Patriot missile system. Target threat classification is automatic and the system can be operated with little input from operators required, if desired. This is one reason for the high degree of accuracy, ability to intercept small, fast and highly maneuverable targets, and the very fast reaction times of the system. Four Patriot missiles like the one shown here can be fired from this mobile launcher between loadings. ...


In addition to the self-propelled, tracked vehicle there are also truck-mounted and towed versions of the Tor. The Tor is designed to replace the 9K33 "Osa" (NATO reporting name SA-8 "Gecko") system. It features a much greater degree of automation than many SAM systems, especially its predecessors. It has been compared to the British Rapier missile and French Crotale missile systems. An SA-8 9K33M3 TELAR w/Land Roll radars. ... An SA-8 9K33M3 TELAR w/Land Roll radars. ... Rapier Type surface to air Nationality UK Era Cold War Launch platform vehicle Target aircraft History Builder British Aerospace Date of design Production period Service duration Operators UK Variants ? Number built ? Specifications Type Diameter 0. ... Crotales are also percussion instruments. ...


Missiles

SA-N-9 firing from the Kirov class cruiser Frunze.
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SA-N-9 firing from the Kirov class cruiser Frunze.

The 9M330 missile is 3.5 m (11.5 ft) long and weighs 167 kg (368 lb). It carries a 15 kg (33 lb) warhead and has a peak speed of around Mach 2.8. The missiles utilize command guidance and their detonation is via a radar proximity fuze. The missiles can maneuver at up to 30Gs and can engage targets flying at up to Mach 2. Missiles are propelled out of the vehicle before the solid fuel rocket motor fires and the gas-dynamic maneuvering system turns them toward their target. Missiles can even be fired against surface targets. Each missile is a sealed round, stored in two groups of four. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3000x1971, 1779 KB)A port view of the bow of the Soviet nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Frunze as two missiles are launched from the SA-N-9 vertical missile launcher. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3000x1971, 1779 KB)A port view of the bow of the Soviet nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Frunze as two missiles are launched from the SA-N-9 vertical missile launcher. ... Mach number (Ma) (pronounced: mæk, mɑːk) is defined as a ratio of the speed of an object or flow relative to the speed of sound in the medium through which it is travelling: Vo/Vs where Vo is the speed of the object and Vs is the speed... Command guidance is a type of missile guidance where a ground station or aircraft relay signals to a guided missile via radio (or possibly through a wire connecting the missile to the launcher) and tell the missile where to steer in order to intercept its target. ... Look up Proximity fuze in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A proximity fuze (also called a VT fuze) is a fuze that is designed to detonate an explosive automatically when close enough to the target to destroy it. ... Gee (navigation) is also the name of a WWII radio navigation device built and implemented by the RAF for use in night bombing. ... Solid fuel is a term given to various types of solid material that provide energy. ... A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine. ... A gas-dynamic control system is one where the path of an object in flight is controlled by either the generation or redirection of gas flow out of an oriface rather than with the traditional movable control surfaces. ... A sealed round is a munition which is typically stored in some kind of container (usually a cylinder or box, but the container may in fact be the outside of the munition), so that the munition does not require any sort of maintenance and is stored in this container right...


Kill probabilities for later versions are quoted as: Computer games, simulations, models, and operations research programs often require a mechanism to determine statistically whether the engagement between a weapon and a target resulted in a kill. ...

  • 0.92-0.95 against aircraft
  • 0.80-0.96 against helicopters
  • 0.60-0.90 against cruise missiles (with an effective range of around 5 km/3 miles)
  • 0.70-0.90 against precision munitions (LGBs, glide bombs, etc.)
  • 0.90 against UAVs

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Radar

There are two radar systems mounted on the TELAR: This long range RADAR antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll[1]. RADAR is a system that uses radio waves to determine and map the location, direction, and/or speed...

  • "Dog Ear" E/F-band pulse/doppler phased-array surveillance radar (maximum detection range 25 km/16 mi) which can detect up to 48 targets and track ten of them, including IFF functionality.
  • "Scrum Half" G/H and later K-band phased-array engagement radar (maximum tracking range 20 km/12 mi) which can guide two missiles.

There is also a small antenna to communicate with missiles after launch and before they are acquired by the engagement radar. The surveillance radar can be folded down horizontally when travelling, to reduce the height of the vehicle, and the tracking radar can partially rotate away from vertical to reduce its height. There is an optical tracking system to complement the tracking radar and allow engagements in a heavy ECM environment. A giant phased-array radar in Alaska In telecommunication, a phased array is a group of antennas in which the relative phases of the respective signals feeding the antennas are varied in such a way that the effective radiation pattern of the array is reinforced in a desired direction and... In telecommunications, identification, friend or foe (IFF) is a crypto identification system designed for command and control. ... A giant phased-array radar in Alaska In telecommunication, a phased array is a group of antennas in which the relative phases of the respective signals feeding the antennas are varied in such a way that the effective radiation pattern of the array is reinforced in a desired direction and... ECM is an abbreviation of: Electret condenser microphone Electro chemical machining Electronic countermeasures Electronic contract manufacturing Electronic control module Elliptic curve method (integer factorization) Electron Cloud Model Enterprise content management Entitlement control message - in secure data transfer Error correction mode (fax protocol) Essentials of Clinical Medicine Extracellular matrix See also...


The naval version of this system utilises the following radars:

  • 3R95 "Cross Swords" G-band surveillance radar (maximum detection range 45 km/28 mi)
  • 3R95 "Cross Swords" K-band engagement radar (maximum tracking range 15 km/9 mi).

Usage

  • Typically, a battery of Tor vehicles is accompanied by the mobile Ranzhir-M (Russian: "Ранжир-М") command center. It allows for efficient allocation of tasks between the individual Tor-1M crews.
  • Tor-1M is a low- to medium-range system. For shorter range, the missile-gun systems "Tungushka" and "Shilka" are used. For longer range, the Buk-M1/M2 (SA-11 Gadfly) system is used.

Ranzhir-M 9С737М (Ранжир-М) is a mobile command center for several types of Russian anti-aircraft weapons, such as Tor, Tungushka, Strela, and Igla. ... A 9K37M TEL. Photo by Field Artillery Magazine. ...

Versions

  • 9K330 "Tor" with the 9M330 missile, minimum range 2 km (1.2 mi), introduced in 1986
  • 9K331 "Tor-M" with the 9M331 missile, minimum range 1.5 km (0.9 mi), introduced in 1991, with greatly improved missile accuracy and the ability to engage two targets simultaneously
  • 9K331M "Tor-M1", "Tor-M1T" with the 9M331 missile, minimum range 1.5 km (0.9 mi)
  • 9K332 "Tor-M2", "Tor-MTA", "Tor-MTB", "Tor-MTS" with the 9M331 missile and a new surveillance radar, minimum range 1 km (0.6 mi)
SA-N-9 launcher on the Udaloy class destroyer Admiral Vinogradov.
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SA-N-9 launcher on the Udaloy class destroyer Admiral Vinogradov.

3K95 "Kinzhal" (Russian: Кинжалdagger) is the naval version of the Tor and has the NATO reporting name SA-N-9. It is installed on Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers, Udaloy-class anti-submarine destroyers and Neustrashimy-class frigates. It can guide missiles to up to four targets at once. Range of the ship-borne surveillance radar is 45 km (28 miles). 24-64 missiles are carried in groups of eight. A 30mm cannon is also incorporated into the system for close-in defence, enhancing the capability against anti-ship missiles. Kirov-class guided missile nuclear cruisers are fitted with 192-missile Kinzhal installations (two octuple clusters forward, two quad linear arrays aft flanking the flight deck, where the after AK-630 guns were mounted on Admiral Ushakov). 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2980x1960, 2457 KB)Crew members man the rails on the bow of the Soviet Udaloy class destroyer Admiral Vinogradov as the ship heads for port at Naval Station, San Diego. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2980x1960, 2457 KB)Crew members man the rails on the bow of the Soviet Udaloy class destroyer Admiral Vinogradov as the ship heads for port at Naval Station, San Diego. ... NATO reporting names were code names for Soviet and Chinese military equipment. ... Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov (originally named Tbilisi) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft carrying cruiser (TAVKR) in Russian classification) serving as the flagship of the Russian Navy. ... Marshal Shaposhnikov transitting the channel into Pearl Harbor in 2003 The Udaloy class are a series of anti-submarine destroyers built for the Soviet Navy - The Russian designation is Project 1155 Fregat (Frigate bird) // History and design The Project 1155 dates to the 1970s when it was concluded that it... Neustrashimy class frigate. ... A small cannon on a carriage, Bucharest. ... Radars: Voskhod MR-800 (Top Pair) 3D search radar on foremast Fregat MR-710 (Top Steer) 3D search radar on main mast 2 × Palm Frond navigation radar on foremast Sonar Horse Tail VDS (Variable Deep Sonar) Fire control: 2 × Top Dome for SA-N-6 fire control 4 × Bass Tilt...


The naval version of the later Tor-M1 is known as the "Yezh" (Russian: Еж - hedgehog). The export version of the Kinzhal is known as "Klinok" (Russian: Клинок - blade).


HQ-17 (Hongqi-17) is a Chinese copy of the 9K331M system which is replacing the HQ-61, an indigenously designed SAM system.


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References

Soviet and post-Soviet armoured fighting vehicles after World War II
List of armoured fighting vehicles by country


 
 

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