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Ukrainian Osa SAM Shoots Down Shahed Loitering Munition
Published 11 months ago
Video recorded inside a Ukrainian Osa air defense system shows the successful tracking and interception of a Russian Shahed (Geran) loitering munition before it is able to strike somewhere in Ukraine.
The 9K33 Osa is a mobile, low-altitude, short-range tactical surface-to-air missile system developed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s. It was actually the first single-vehicle air defense system in which its tracking radars and missile systems were all combined in a single vehicle rather than a multiple vehicle unit.
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