Field guide
Every target in the game and what gives it away. Your record fills in as you play.
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How to recognise air defence systems
- 9K33 OsaBoat-shaped six-wheeled amphibious vehicle with a turret carrying a radar dish and six missile canisters.
- 9K35 Strela-10MT-LB style tracked carrier with a small turret holding four missile boxes in two pairs, folded flat when travelling.
- CrotaleSmall turret with a radar on top and missile canisters on both sides, on a wheeled or tracked vehicle.
- Flakpanzer GepardLeopard 1 hull with a large turret carrying a 35 mm cannon on each side and a radar dish on top.
- Iron DomeBox launcher with 20 missile tubes on a trailer, tilted up at a steep angle and set down on the ground.
- MIM-104 PatriotTrailer-mounted launcher tilted up at an angle, holding four large rectangular canisters.
- NASAMSCompact launcher with six slim missile canisters in two rows of three, on a trailer or truck.
- S-300PSLarge eight-wheeled truck carrying four tall cylindrical canisters raised upright to fire.
- S-400Semi-trailer with four long cylindrical canisters, towed by a separate tractor unit.
- SAMP/TTruck carrying a vertical launcher of eight Aster missile canisters raised upright at the rear.
- Tor-M2Tracked vehicle with a tall box turret: tracking radar on the front, vertical missile cells behind it and a rotating search radar on top at the rear.
- ZSU-23-4 ShilkaTracked vehicle with a flat, wide turret carrying four 23 mm cannons and a round radar dish at the back.
- ZU-23-2Twin 23 mm cannons side by side on a two-wheeled towed mount with two small seats for the crew.
- Buk-M3Tracked chassis with seven road wheels and a launcher with six missiles in closed tubes, where the older Buk shows four bare missiles on rails.
- HQ-9Long-range system like the S-300: big square missile canisters raised upright at the back of a large 8x8 truck.
- IRIS-T SLMTruck-mounted launcher with eight long slender canisters, raised vertically to fire.
- KM-SAMEight-cell box launcher raised upright on the back of a truck, with a separate rotating multi-function radar.
- Sky Sabre (CAMM)Truck carrying a box of eight CAMM missile canisters stood vertically; the radar rides on a separate vehicle.
- Skyranger 30Turret with a 30 mm revolver cannon, radar panels and missile pods, on vehicles such as the Boxer, Piranha, Pandur or tracked carriers.
- SPYDERTruck with four air-to-air missiles (Python-5 and Derby) in boxes on a tilting, rotating launcher; the longer-range versions stand them upright.
- THAADBig HEMTT truck carrying a box launcher with eight missile canisters, raised steeply to fire.