New Post Brand SAM MIM -23 HAWK 2022. One brand. 1 piece

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MIM -23 HAWK, Interceptor mobile missile (Mobile missile Interceptor) and BackRonym for the word "hawk" - English. The killer is the whole way - “The interceptor is controlled along the entire flight of the flight”) - the American military anti -cancer system of the average missiles made by Raytheon.

Initially, the complex was developed to destroy aircraft, later it was changed to intercept missiles in flight. It was commissioned in 1960, and since then it has been repeatedly modernized, which did not allow the complex to become very obsolete and the complex was supported at the level of requirements of that time. However, in 1994, the US Army replaced him with the MIM-104 patriot. The work of the complex in the United States was finally terminated in 2002, after the US Marine Corps replaced it with portable FIM-92 air defense systems with infrared guidance. The anti -aircraft missiles of the complex were also produced outside the United States: in Western Europe, Japan and Iran.

In total, including those made under a license in other countries, more than 40 thousand missiles were produced. According to the Jane catalog, the probability of achieving a goal with one racket is 0.56 (56%); I-HAWK modification improved this drawing up to 0.85 (85%). Although the United States never used hawks in battle, the complex was used by other countries.

War in Ukraine. Now the hawk air defense system is used in Ukraine Ukrainian soldiers against the occupier of the Russian Federation

 

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