With creative fighting style, Vietnamese missile troops used SAM-2 to shoot down dozens of B-52 strategic aircraft - a feat that no other army in the world has achieved.
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| SAM-2 missile on the launcher. This is the main weapon of the Vietnamese army in the confrontation with the US B-52 strategic bombers. |
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| The 59th Battalion, 262nd Regiment used this launcher to shoot down the first B-52 over Hanoi, on the night of December 18, 1972. |
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| The lower part of the launch pad mentioned above. Artifacts on display at the Vietnam Air Defense - Air Force Museum |
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| SAM-2 (Dvina) missile launcher seen from behind. |
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| Close-up of the tail of a SAM-2 surface-to-air missile provided by the Soviet Union to Vietnam to fight the US. |
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| This SAM-2 missile control station belongs to Battalion 61, Regiment 236 of the Missile Corps. The station is mobile to many places on the battlefield. |
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| During the resistance war against America, this control station launched a missile and shot down two enemy planes. |
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| Radar of Company 45, Regiment 291 – the unit that detects targets from a distance. On December 18, 1972, the company detected the first group of B-52s attacking Hanoi. |
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| The radar unit not only detected targets for our anti-aircraft guns, missiles and planes, but also guided our fighters to attack the enemy. |
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| The Vietnamese part of a multilingual sheet that American pilots carry and use when they crash on enemy territory or a third country. |
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| The missile control unit that the 361st Air Defense Division used to shoot down the A-4E aircraft of pilot John McCain – who later became a US senator. |
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| The female scouts stick close to the target. |
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| Reenact the combat crew on the missile control vehicle. The crew usually consists of 5 people: 1 commander, 1 control officer, and 3 surveyors (azimuth, elevation, range). |
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| “Red Cover Handbook” – a guidebook on “How to fight B-52s by missile troops”, 30 typewritten pages, published in October 1972./. |
According to VOV
