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Originally Posted by Garry
Read a lot of interesting stuff on Russian forums about these. Tor M1 is much more capable and expensive that Tunguska, which is more anti-helo defense. Both are relativelly short range... around 5km effective and max range of Tor-M1 is 12km. Tor-M1 can shoot unguided bombs and even Grad BM-21 shells..... two channels... so it can attack two targets with two missiles fired on each. It can be used against CM on their terminal stage.....
I would love to hear comparison of Tor-M1 with its western peers....
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Well as far as I heard, Tor M1 was specifically build to protect armored columns against weapons fired from aircrafts. It can shoot down aircrafts and helicopters too but with the high resolution phased array its primary target is actually the ordinance fired from the enemy aircraft. I've heard that the, during the NATO air strikes in Kosovo, Serbs actually were able to shoot down Mavericks with SA-7 Grail. It appeared that the obsolete IR head which was too sensitive and therefore easy to jam warhead, was good enough to hit Mavericks...But again that could be just the rumor.
