The press service of the Kalashnikov concern stated on 24 December that the field tests of the Strela 9М333 surface-to-air missile at the Donguz test site in the Orenburg region have been successfully completed.
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Kalashnikov Concern announced on Thursday the completion of testing the surface-to-air missile (SAM) for the Strela 10M air defense system. Serial production of the Strela 9М333 missile was started in the interests of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
The surface-to-air missile "Strela 9M333" is designed to defeat low-flying aircraft and helicopters at any time of the year in the conditions of the use of dropped, parachuted, and modulated organized optical interference, as well as remotely piloted aircraft and cruise missiles.
The missile has three modes of seeker operation: photo contrast, infrared, and jamming, which is its most important advantage over other missiles of this class.
The SAM "9M333" has missile guidance of fire-and-forget which does not require further guidance after launches such as illumination of the target or wire guidance and can hit its target without the launcher being in line-of-sight of the target.
The Strela-10 (English: arrow) is a highly mobile, visually aimed, optical/infrared-guided, low-altitude, short-range surface-to-air missile system. "9K35" is its GRAU designation; its NATO reporting name is SA-13 "Gopher".
