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| A Surface to Air Missile site (SAM) is, as the name would suggest, a ground based system dedicated to launching missiles at your aircraft. This page covers the various SAMs in DCS, their characteristics, typical deployments (as used by real-life militaries), and tactics for mission makers and pilots to be aware of. | | A Surface to Air Missile site (SAM) is, as the name would suggest, a ground based system dedicated to launching missiles at your aircraft. This page covers the various SAMs in DCS, their characteristics, typical deployments (as used by real-life militaries), and tactics for mission makers and pilots to be aware of. |
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| ==SA-2 Guideline==
| | A compendium of DCS Sam Sites can be found in [[DCS Reference/Air Defences]] |
| [[File:SA-2.png|thumb|Typical Layout of an SA 2, with optional Shilkas and Igla team to cover against low approaches.]] | |
| The SA-2 is a Soviet medium range (~20 nm) high altitude SAM system developed in 1957, but continues to see use to this day.
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| | SAM SR P-19 || 1 || A basic search radar. Provides intelligence to where aircraft are, but cannot provide missile guidance by itself. || Degradation of SAM threat range to visual.
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| | SAM SA-2 TR SNR-75 Fan Song || 1 || Tracks single aircraft at a time, providing a missile firing solution. Cannot locate aircraft beyond visual range without a search radar. || SAM unable to fire or track, effectively disabled.
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| | SAM SA-2 LN SM-90 || 6 || The actual missile launcher, fires remote-commanded missiles. || SAM unable to fire without missiles, effectively disabled.
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| | Transport Ural-375 || 1 || Reloads SAM missiles every few minutes. || SAM no longer reloading, will run out of missiles (eventually).
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| Soviet doctrinal placements of units are in a flower pattern, with sensors/logistics units at the center and launchers arranged an a circle around them spaced no more than a few hundred feet apart. However, this is a very easy arrangement to spot from the air, so guerrilla forces throughout history have been known to use other arrangements for the sake of concealment.
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| One of the easier systems to evade, the tracking radar is easily fooled via notching and chaff bursts of at minimum 4 per second. It is also completely unable to track targets below about 4,000 ft AGL, leaving it vulnerable to low runs. As a result, sites should also include short range anti-air able to engage at low altitudes, such as AAA guns and MANPADS.
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A Surface to Air Missile site (SAM) is, as the name would suggest, a ground based system dedicated to launching missiles at your aircraft. This page covers the various SAMs in DCS, their characteristics, typical deployments (as used by real-life militaries), and tactics for mission makers and pilots to be aware of.
A compendium of DCS Sam Sites can be found in DCS Reference: Air Defences
