The Tor family of SAMs can be used to defend against aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles, precision-guided munitions and even some ballistic targets.
Belarus already has two batteries of Tor M2 which were delivered in 2011 and 2012. A Tor-M2 battery is supposed to consist of:
- Four Transporter Erector Launcher And Radar (TELARs)
- One mobile command post
- Various support vehicles
- Weight of 165 kg
- Warhead of 14.5 kg
- Length of 2.9 m
- Diameter of 0.23 m
- Maximum range of 12 km
- Altitude of 6 km
- Speed of Mach 2.5
- Improved ability to defend fixed infrastructure / installations in addition to protecting mobile armored formations
- New phased array radar can track up to 48 targets
- Improved electro-optical tracking system
- New 9M332 missiles with improved performance
Besides Russia and Belarus, other notable users of the Tor system include Iran and China. A naval version is also in use by certain ships in the Russian Navy.
http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130911/183363111/Russia-to-Deliver-More-Air-Defense-Systems-to-Belarus-in-2013.html
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