9K38 Igla
Russian man-portable surface-to-air missile (SA-18 Grouse) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the air-to-air rocket named Gimlet, see Gimlet (rocket). For the flying boat designated SA-16, see Grumman HU-16 Albatross.
The 9K38 Igla (Russian: Игла́, "needle", NATO reporting name SA-18 Grouse) is a Russian/Soviet man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. A simplified, earlier version is known as the 9K310 Igla-1 (NATO: SA-16 Gimlet), and the latest variant is the 9K338 Igla-S (SA-24 Grinch).
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Igla, SA-18 Grouse, SA-N-10 Grouse | |
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Type | Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) |
Place of origin | Soviet Union |
Service history | |
In service | 1981–present |
Used by | See Operators |
Wars | Iran-Iraq War Gulf War Cenepa War Sri Lankan Civil War Yugoslav Wars Bosnian War Iraq War Second Chechen War Somali Civil War First Libyan Civil War Syrian civil war[1] Russo-Ukrainian War (War in Donbass) Sinai insurgency Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine[2] |
Production history | |
Manufacturer | KB Mashinostroyeniya – Developer of the system |
Produced | 1981–present |
Specifications | |
Mass | Missile weight: 10.8 kg (24 lb) Full system: 17.9 kg (39 lb) |
Length | 1.574 m (5.16 ft) |
Diameter | 72 mm |
Warhead | 1.17 kg (2.6 lb) with 390 g (14 oz) explosive |
Detonation mechanism | Contact and grazing fuze |
Engine | Solid fuel rocket motor |
Operational range | 5.0 km (3.1 mi) – Igla-1 5.2 km (3.2 mi) – Igla 6.0 km (3.7 mi) – Igla-S |
Flight ceiling | 3.5 km (11,000 ft) |
Maximum speed | 570 m/s[3] (peak), about Mach 1.9 |
Guidance system | Dual waveband infra-red (S-version)[4] |
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The Igla-1 entered service in 1981, the Igla in 1983, and the Igla-S in 2004.[citation needed] The Igla has been supplemented by the 9K333 Verba since 2014.[5]