Surface-to-air missile - Definition

A surface-to-air missile (SAM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft.

SAMs can be deployed from fixed installations or mobile launchers. The smallest SAMs are capable of being carried and launched by a single person.

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1 Radar-guided SAMs

Radar-guided SAMs

There are different types of radar guidance:

Patriot, SA-10, SA-12 and SA-20 utilise track-via-missile radar guidance.
SA-1, SA-2, SA-3, SA-6 and SA-15 utilise radar command guidance.
SA-5 utilises radar command guidance with terminal active radar homing.
SA-4, SA-11 and SA-17 utilise radar command guidance with terminal semi-active radar homing.
SA-8 utilises semi-autonomous command line-of-sight guidance (SACLOS).

FIM-43 Redeye - United States
Chaparral - United States (this is a ground-launched version of the AIM-9 Sidewinder AAM)
FIM-92 Stinger - United States
Mistral - France
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile - United States (this missile is a derivative of the AIM-9 Sidewinder and the FIM-92 Stinger).
SA-7 'Grail' - Russia
SA-9 'Gaskin - Russia
SA-13 'Gopher' - Russia
SA-14 'Gremlin' - Russia
SA-16 'Gimlet' - Russia
SA-18 'Grouse' - Russia
Igla - Russia
Anza - Pakistan
Hongqi-7 - People's Republic of China

Rest-of-World Missile Systems (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/) from the Federation of American Scientists website

List of missiles

Surface-to-air - Example Usage
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	LucidGlow: RT @BoingBoing: East London residents warned of surface-to-air missiles sited on their roofs for the Olympics http://t.co/90s0tjyQ
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