OSA - Polish mobile surface-to-air system

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9K33 Osa (NATO: SA-8 Gecko, English:Wasp) is a surface-to-air missile system used by Polish army. It is the first vehicle with mobile defence missile system with radar on one, single car - so called all-in-one. Such system can detect, track and destroy aircrafts autonomously. Of course there is also possibility to work with cooperation of ground radar stations.

 

Polish Army surface to air missile system Osa-AKM

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Weight:    17.5 tonnes

length:      9.14 m

Width:       2.75 m

Height:     4.20 m

Crew:       5 persons

Engine:    Diesel

Speed:     80km/h on the road and 8km/h in the water

Missile range: depend on a missile- for 9M33M3 it is: 15 km (9 mi) and 12 000 m (39,000 ft)

Producent: ZSRR, till 1972

 

Osa

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Osa - shooting

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