S-75 Dvina / SA-2 GUIDELINE SAM System: PR-11 Transloader
The S-75 (NATO Reporting Name: SA-2 GUIDELINE) is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude air defense system, built around a surface-to-air missile with command guidance. Since its first deployment in 1957 it became one of the most successful SAM systems in history. It scored the first destruction of an enemy aircraft by a SAM, shooting down a Taiwanese spy plane over China on 7 October 1959.
This system first gained international fame in the ‘1960 U-2 Incident’ when an S-75 battery shot down a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers. The missile system was also used extensively by the North Vietnamese to defend the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong—where it became known as the “flying telephone pole” to American pilots.
In Soviet and North Vietnamese service, the GUIDELINE was typically carried on the PR-11B transporter-loader trailer, towed by a ZiL-131 tractor truck.
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Designed as part of the BrickFair VA 2018 Vietnam Collab, alongside Peter Dornbi's awesome SM-90 erector-launcher & FAN SONG radar.
S-75 Dvina / SA-2 GUIDELINE SAM System: PR-11 Transloader
The S-75 (NATO Reporting Name: SA-2 GUIDELINE) is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude air defense system, built around a surface-to-air missile with command guidance. Since its first deployment in 1957 it became one of the most successful SAM systems in history. It scored the first destruction of an enemy aircraft by a SAM, shooting down a Taiwanese spy plane over China on 7 October 1959.
This system first gained international fame in the ‘1960 U-2 Incident’ when an S-75 battery shot down a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers. The missile system was also used extensively by the North Vietnamese to defend the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong—where it became known as the “flying telephone pole” to American pilots.
In Soviet and North Vietnamese service, the GUIDELINE was typically carried on the PR-11B transporter-loader trailer, towed by a ZiL-131 tractor truck.
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Designed as part of the BrickFair VA 2018 Vietnam Collab, alongside Peter Dornbi's awesome SM-90 erector-launcher & FAN SONG radar.