Russia's roving SAMs: the Soviets created the world's most comprehensive and lethal set of mobile air-defense systems for land forces. (JED Exclusive).

From: Journal of Electronic Defense | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Fiszer, Michal; Gruszczynski, Jerzy | Copyright information

Throughout the 1950s, Soviet ground forces basically relied on World War 11-era tactics, including their concept of air defense, which consisted of anti-aircraft artillery units with guns of various caliber depending on echelon. In the mid-1950s, these gun units started receiving fire-control radar sets, but the pace of the radar introduction was slow. This changed in 1956, however, when Soviet planners recognized a new danger: potential employment of tactical nuclear weapons by NA...

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