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The Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK ("Homing All the Way Killer") [2] is an American medium-range surface-to-air missile. It was designed to be a much more mobile counterpart to the MIM-14 Nike Hercules , trading off range and altitude capability for a much smaller size and weight.
The 14th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment is a regiment of the Ukrainian Air Force tasked with air defense operations throughout Lviv Oblast and Poltava Oblast.It operates MIM-23 Hawk Missile defense systems amongst other systems and is subordinated to the Air Command Center.
The Marine Corps began to transition its various ari defense units to the MIM-23 HAWK Missile in 1960. 1st LAAM Battalion was the first to transition on 2 May 1960 followed by 2nd LAAM Battalion which stood up shortly thereafter on 1 August 1960. 1st MAAM Battalion was the next to get re-designated when it was re-designated as the 3rd Light ...
The Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK system - a contrived acronym for Homing All the Way Killer - was designed in the depths of the Cold War to shoot down enemy bombers. It was refined and upgraded in the ...
The system was developed by Toshiba as a replacement for the 75 mm M51 Skysweeper and M15A1 37 mm/12.7 mm anti-aircraft guns. Designed as a mobile short-range system to fill the performance gap between the FIM-92 Stinger man portable missile, and the larger MIM-23 Hawk missile system, which were both in service at the time.
5th Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion (5th LAAM Bn) was a United States Marine Corps air defense unit equipped with the medium range surface-to-air MIM-23 HAWK Missile System. 5th LAAM was commissioned at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona during the Vietnam War to augment training on the West Coast after 2d LAAM Battalion deployed to Vietnam.
MIM-23 Hawk USA: Medium range surface-to-air missile system Hawk XXI| K/J 92 Fire Unit with 16 Batteries. [9] Modernized. To be replaced by Hisar-O. S-125 Neva/Pechora RUS UKR: S-125-2D Unknown Modernized. Deployed to Libya and Syria. [10] Rapier missile UK: Rapier 2000 515 Fire Unit with 86 Battery. [11] Produced under license by ROKETSAN. To ...
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