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Parent topics
- Surface-to-air missile [r]: A guided missile fired from land or water, to destroy aircraft and possibly missiles; naval versions may have a secondary anti-shipping missile capability [e]
Subtopics
- 9K31 Strela-1 [r]: A Soviet-designed, mobile, short-range surface-to-air missile, with the NATO reporting name "SA-9 GASKIN"; no longer a first-line Russian weapon, it is deployed on the BRDM armored reconnaissance vehicle chassis. [e]
- FIM-92 Stinger [r]: A second-generation United States Army surface-to-air missile that can be fired from a soldier's shoulder, from vehicle-mounted launchers, and, in an air-to-air missile configuration, from attack helicopters. Uses combined infrared-ultraviolet guidance to resist countermeasures. [e]
Co-topics
- Infrared [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ultraviolet [r]: The part of the electromagnetic spectrum between the visible light and X-ray regions [e]
- AAQ-24 [r]: A Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) active electronic device that uses intense light to dazzle or burn out infrared missile seekers [e]
- AAR-54 [r]: Using multiple ultraviolet sensors, this is an missile exhaust detector and alarm [e]
- AAR-57 [r]: Mounted on aircraft, the system detects the ultraviolet energy emissions of missile threats [e]