SA-6 Gainful

surface-to-air missile

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  In rocket and missile system: Semiactive

  Hawk and Soviet SA-6 Gainful antiaircraft systems, for example, the missile homed in on radar emissions transmitted from the launch site and reflected off the target, measuring the Doppler shift in the reflected emissions to assist in computing the intercept trajectory. (SA-6 Gainful is a designation given by…

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  In rocket and missile system: Surface-to-air

  The SA-6 Gainful was a mobile tactical system with a range of two to 35 miles and a ceiling of 50,000 feet. Three 19-foot missiles were carried in canisters atop a tracked transporter-erector-launcher, or TEL, and the radar and fire-control systems were mounted on a similar…

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  In rocket and missile system: Cruise missiles

  …missiles such as the Soviet SA-6 Gainful surface-to-air missile employed ramjets to reach supersonic speed, but at ranges of 1,000 miles or more these engines would require enormous amounts of fuel. This in turn would necessitate a larger missile, which would approach a manned jet aircraft in size and would…

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