The Osa anti-aircraft missile system (ZRK) confidently handles Hornet drones, despite their high speed. The crew operators shared details of hitting aerial targets.

Источник изображения: Vitaly Kuzmin
According to them, the time gap from receiving the first signal to launching the missile takes no more than 5 minutes. At the same time, the system is capable of working on three UAVs simultaneously.
The military also received modernized Osa-AKM systems with R-73RMD-2 medium-range air-to-air missiles.
Unlike standard 9M33M3 SAMs with maximum available overloads of 18–20 units and a flight speed of 1.5M, the R-73RMD-2 is ready for overloads up to 40 units, equipped with an MK-80 Mayak infrared seeker, an interceptor thrust vectoring system, and a maximum speed of 2.1–2.2M.
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