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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.


==SA-2 Guideline==
A compendium of DCS Sam Sites can be found in [[DCS Reference/Air Defences]]


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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===Components===
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! Unit !! Function !! Loss effect
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| SAM SR P-19 || 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 || 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 || The actual missile launcher, fires remote-commanded missiles. || SAM unable to fire without missiles, effectively disabled.
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| Transport Ural-375 || Reloads SAM missiles every few minutes. || SAM no longer reloading, will run out of missiles (eventually).
|}
 
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

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