The Tor firing looks really cool 😎. I don't like the Strela because it is low cost and effective enough. Can Ukraine use the crv7 mighty mouse rocket motors to make ammo for these? There is a guided crv7 variant, so missle it already is? Good Luck on the channel getting more engagement, I recommend looking for a comment in your "youtube data" in options, the comment that might get a robot-referee angry and delete it, if it exists. ❤
Love your videos, but in this case you're just behind the times, all the short/medium class Soviet style SAMs are just about useless against anything much smaller than the Predator/Reaper/Bayracktar size drones...
Thank you for another great video. Strela looks like a great short range AA defense system, i think with a great passive sensor(optic). I am a huge fan of your channel. Best regards from Portugal 👍
The radar on Strela-10 is there just to determine range to target. It is 100% ranging radar, can not track the target and you don't have to use it if the target is at visual range. Also, Strela-10 can also use older missiles from Strela-1. Recommended ratio is 50-50; 2 Strela-10 and 2 Strela-1 missiles where older ones are used for less sophisticated targets which makes the system even more cost effective. In Soviet/Russian doctrine, you don't have to shoot down an aircraft in order to complete the mission; if the object you are defending is still standing after an airstrike or can be repaired, that's mission accomplished. Shooting down a plane is just more than welcome bonus. And knowing this thing is around (it's passive seeker so pilot doesn't get a warning after the launch) is enough to make any pilot nervous.
we never turned on the radar for practice. It's unnecessary, it's only there for the purposes of issuing a target-zone signal. Once a colleague turned it on during an exercise and aimed at a pair of L-159s, the planes did a disruption and circled for several minutes looking for the source that targeted them, meanwhile the colleague aimed them several times and simulated shooting, the planes never found him.
The sheer amount of modifications/varieties of the MT-LB is nuts. Even today they're still technically making new modifications, although more out of desperation than to their advantage. Still, successful platform IMO for how much use they and others have gotten out of it.
Not me. I was in the Rhodesian security forces during the bush war when in the late 1970’s ZIPRA brought down two Vickers Viscount passenger aircraft with Strela manpads. On the first shoot down, the aircraft crash landed with survivors. A couple of hours later the terrorists arrived at the crash site and ‘unalived’ the civilian men and women survivors. During this time I was a pilot. The second aircraft shot down had no survivors.
Need a troop carrier? MT-LB Need a small SAM battery? MT-LB Need a mortar carrier? MT-LB Need an advanced anti tank missile system? Believe it or not, MT-LB
It's like the Chimera infantry fighting vehicle in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, but in reality. And yes, this chassis is no longer produced. This is an archaeotek.
I don’t comment on videos often, but I want you to know your videos are genuinely helpful and informative, especially for systems people might overlook or undervalue such as the humble SA-13. All the folks here love you and I’m sorry RUclips keeps grinding an amazing channel into the dirt. Videos like this truly should be what pops up in recommended streams for military nerds and analysts like everyone here!
Your production quality is fantastic as for the gopher itself it remains a very legitimate threat even 30 years after its release. Funnily enough the American nemeis system is essentially the American gopher
It would be interesting to compare the SA-13 and the chaparral Reason is the the chaparral uses sidewinder based missiles, the strela uses AA-2 missiles and as we look know the AA-2 is based on a Sidewinder that the chines captured that a Taiwanese fight shot into one of their migs that didn’t explode
I think that little "whiz" sound is the gyro spinning up. I could be wrong, but that is process used on older gyro stabilized missiles and torpedoes where a compressed gas spins up the gyro right before launch.
Great video, thanks! However, I have to bring a few corrections: 1. 3:50 Main seeker mode is photocontrast, not IR. It seeks for light objects on a dark background or vice versa. 2. M3 version is actually capable to use all 9M333's features, such as following and requisition of vanished (behind clouds, for example) targets. Also, M3 has 1,8/3,75x variable zoom instead of flat 2,8 of earlier models 3. 5:58 Just NO. The "radar" part of S-10 (called "zone assessment device") hasn't changed through modifications at all. It calculates launch parameters based on target's kinematic properties, doesn't affect missile's locking on targets and not necessary for using (quite detrimental with modern RWRs and signals intel systems). 8:56 It houses only 4 (four) missiles inside, your sources are... questionable P.S. That №621 vehicle is from unit where I served, glad to see it 😊
@@asellusaustralis261 Thank you. I'm really interested in this and similar systems. Could you please explain how the Strela-10 crew discover the target so they can engage it? Do they get the info from external radars from the command post if the system has the capability to connect with or they rely on visually spotting the target?
@matovicmmilan the main mean to engage a target is visual contact. The missile needs the same visual contact to lock on the target, so it makes sense. Also, each divizion (not to be confused with division) has PU-12M and PPRU command vehicles. PPRU has its own radar, it can transfer target data to PU-12M, and then PU-12 can share target azimuths to S-10 (M2 or M3) through APRTsU datalink. It was the original way to do that, nowadays it's problematic. That radio datalink is easily detectable and jammable by modern means of electronic warfare, radar is also obsolete. So S-10 crews rely on external sources of reconnaissance
THAT whistling sound when fired is caused by a gas generator that spins the gyroscope at the back of the rocket. The 9M37M missile has a dual IR and photocontrast guidance system, the operator can turn on protection against flare interference before firing. This protection is then automatically turned on when the projectile is fired. maximum speed 2M average speed 1.5M. The speed of the target can be 425m/s on arrival and 330m/s on departure. The warhead is incredibly sensitive and accurate in guidance, although it sometimes happened if the target was at the dawn of a cloud that was irradiated by the sun that the missile caught the cloud boundary and lost the target, but in 10 years of service I have only seen it twice and it was the operator's fault who misjudged target capture.
TY Matt. I get this is about the "Strela' , yet a lot of viewers like the MT-LB , and 2 sources say they will be extinct soon :Covert Cabal, an Red effect . It seems they are not built anymore , and wonderfully adaptable to any purpose, so they are used a lot . Forestry/fire fighting , even Siberian traffic cops use them in winter, then add 2-dozen , or more and growing, military versions. Very thin armor means they are destroyed easily. Footage is out there , and hard to believe how they end up in such small pieces when ammo & fuel goes off.. I got nuthin' on the Strela , but I do like the looks of the MT-LB. -TY for the post on the system.
There's really no point to build anymore if they still have a large old stock pile from the cold war era that can be rebuild. Honestly that's pretty much most of the stuff we see just rebuild and upgraded older stock. I would ignore CC and just focus on RE CC is too politicalize to be objective and honest on anything where as RE has been objective and spot on.
@@ThatOneGuy-mn6dv TY the tips. There is always that confirmed kills site, where they have vehicles listed by type, and number, with multiple confirmed sources. I also heard Ukraine made most of them , for their use, and export to many other operators. Kharkiv tractor factory.
@@robertsolomielke5134 They are all pretty much their own copy and paste of (not literally but you get the idea) of Oryx. They are known to just make numbers up, list anything as default Russian lost, repeatedly showing the same old example but from a different time and view and repeat it as another lost. Also they don't actually explain what they mean by a lost either. What was even more shocking is much of Western sources site Ukrainian sources that have not only been proven to be untrustworthy as stated but also who in their right mind only trust one side of a war with only one warring party in it words on face value?! One thing is for sure doubt everything but if it is only on the Ukrainian side trust them not. It's sad to say that because I want to know what both sides are but the Ukrainian/anti-Russian side is simply mostly not to be trusted.
@@matovicmmilan Yes TY- Oryx. They should have the best data on vehicle losses imo. *Oddly I did get a weird vibe from CC before you mentioned it...my radar was working still.
I thought you weren't releasing content or something as often I haven't been seeing you come up now I know why I'll make sure to hunt your vids down from now on keep up the good work brother
I remember the first footage from ukraine, one of these things rolling around in the streets. I remember normals identifying it as a tank. Because it had tracks, you see.
Happy New Year mate, great upload ! And yes, looking at the longevity of this system, Strela was indeed an emblem to the AA systems for decades... The system is one of the main reasons, along the Patriot, why the russians brought FABs to the game. I even consider the Strela more dangerous, for its stealth and ambushing capability, reaction time ( a lot faster than Patriot) simplicity to operate and (very) low cost. Is amazing how a 50 yo system is still a deadly machine against modern aircraft, today... great design, indeed, hats down !
Keep up the good work. Really enjoy your videos. I like the old Russian SA-8 GECKO system. During Desert Storm I believe there was a US Special Forces operation to capture one of these systems which was successful. I have not found any information on that event but it would be cool to see a video about this capture if it actually happened.
Love your vids leaving a comment your one of my top military guys and yea you fell off my RUclips algorithm for whatever reason for quite a while, although you have been popping up a bit more lately which is better than none, so I’m goin back to watch a bunch I must have missed out on for quite some time hahaha
Another great video as usual. I wonder if the lower reach is purely because of competition from a few channels that have become massive recently like Task and Purpose and whatever Warographics is now called.
On to another year Matsimus. It’s hard to believe the first time I watched one of your videos I was middle school and now i’m a semster away from finishing college. Keep up the great content!!!🎉
EMR is still the main uniform and will stay for a long time, Multicam is used in SMO/war by first line troops since most of the uniforms and equipment are bought privately. It's a result of increased salaries by Russian government that is allowing soldiers to buy equipment that suits them the best. Basically money they get goes back to military spendings
Russia modernized this system, they added a day and night camera and thermal imaging with a system of automatic target tracking, the system is called Ochotnik (hunter).
As most of these missiles are short range and as such are pretty short, I wonder how long it will be until we get a vehicle that has a VLS and as such has more than 4 pods.
I have seen too many videos from a drone's POV where strela-10 missile misses the drone, sometimes 2 misses back to back. I've heard that the missile fuzes have a trouble with the small-sized targets. It could be a selection bias though, as they're so many of them and used against drones all the time.
Thank you for your unbiased opinion. I believe it's important to be impartial when talking about controversial topics like this because people should know the facts and what these things are capable of so that they do not get blindsided or confused as to why the situation in Ukraine is dire right now. Instead of using propaganda to musk the success of this weapon system, countries should make countermeasures to defeat the weapon system so that they can save more lives and military assets.
He's one of only a few trusted people that can do this objectively if he ever wanted to go into this for his channel. You just can't hate him at all even if maybe one may disagree with him you can't hate the guy.
14:53 because multicam is starting to become official Russian uniform, with vkpo 2.0 and 3.0, in 3-4 years it will replace the current uniform. But the new uniform is already being delivered on the front lines, that's why a lot of soldiers are rocking multicam. Not all of them.
Strela is very old yet extremly effective little machine maybe best machine for war in Ukrajine cuz its cheaper than other AA systems like Tunguska or Thor and well igla cant match the power of strela its really impressive wehicle. Sometimes simplicity is better than high tech.
Normally there should be 4 of these (alongside 4 2S6 Tunguska) in every motor rifle and tank regiment in the Russian army, or 6 of each in every brigade. Some 460 units are in service in Russia alone.
Your videos don't suck. I really like your channel and get excited when I see uploads. But I've been noticing that I'm not being recommended the videos as much anymore. Which is quite frustrating.
i love the system, but a missile for drones, better using a cannon like Italian guided shells, they took down drones over 5 km distance, without needs for expensive missiles. but like you said, better as being hit!
Considering that Strela-10 has received a heat direction finder and new rockets with a multispectral seeker, it is too early for her to retire. What does it really (well, roughly) look like to launch an Arrow-10 at a low-flying fighter-type target: ruclips.net/video/zapopeYqAhI/видео.html
The West needs to review its anti-aircraft vehicles to include: - PATRIOT on a platform similar to the BUK. - Reissue the 35mm GEPARD for C-UAS and C-RAM functions (something that I think is very neglected) - The 76mm and 127mm naval guns are options that need to be evaluated.
The Gernans already use the Patriot truck mounted. Not exactly like a Buk but still much faster and easier to set up. The Skyranger 30 is already beeing procured as a Gepard replacement The oto melara 76mm is already used as anti-air and missile defense on most large ships that use it.
West needs: 1. single 35mm gun with programmable ammo and MANPADs on one plaform 2. 76mm with DART ammo in land applications 3. CAMM-ER on Buk like Chassis. 4. this new brithsh laser.
@@piotrd.4850 Greetings, the CAMM-ER is a good missile, but the idea is to have anti-aircraft/ballistic defense on a mobile platform for the first line and, if necessary, to be able to use the SM-2 and SM-6. I prefer to reissue the GEPARD with two 35mm cannons with AHEAD ammunition and SkyKnight missiles. The 76mm must be used not only with DART ammunition, but also with the entire HE, Frag, and VULCANO range (for counterbattery fire). The UK Laser has already been used in Yemen and, as far as I know, with success.
Actually M it appears that the Strela is using a small radar to acquire the target before launching this IR missile therefore it isn't a stealth system because aircraft are equipped with radar warning receivers.
Jan. 5, 2025 - Matt.. Mate.. So glad to see you publishing again. Happy post holidays to you and your family. I lost your mailing address a couple of years ago. I assume all is well with you folks and Chally who must be a monster dog by now. Stay well. Larry in Connecticut.. reachout if you still have my mailing address, I had to start a new email address a couple of years ago.
Insightful video on a system we don't hear of often in the Western bubble...I wonder how much each missile costs compared to say...a Patriot, just kidding.
Problem with Strela as primary solution in shooting down drones is that, while they are cheaper than BUK, S-300, TOR, Pantsir, it's not cost effective compare to much cheaper anti-drone solution. Which is, as you might have guess it, drones designed to shoot down drones.
@@_Matsimus_ you were mentioning how WE - NATO doesn't seem to take drone threat seriously ....i stumbled across this SHORAD system vid....ruclips.net/video/vvaL7koOU-4/видео.html
Anyone know what the purpose of the dish in the middle is? If the missiles are fire and forget and IR tracking, why have what looks like a radio recieving dish on it?
It's a ranging radar. It helps give exact targeting information at the outer edges of the system's range where it might be hard to get a good visual bearing. Evidently it's not normally used in practice though.
Thanks for watching, what is your favourite Russian/Soviet anti-aircraft missile platform? Let me know below! Have a great day! 🙂 Matt
Oh you're pumping the videos out now thanks for the entertainment
The Tor firing looks really cool 😎. I don't like the Strela because it is low cost and effective enough. Can Ukraine use the crv7 mighty mouse rocket motors to make ammo for these? There is a guided crv7 variant, so missle it already is? Good Luck on the channel getting more engagement, I recommend looking for a comment in your "youtube data" in options, the comment that might get a robot-referee angry and delete it, if it exists. ❤
Love your videos, but in this case you're just behind the times, all the short/medium class Soviet style SAMs are just about useless against anything much smaller than the Predator/Reaper/Bayracktar size drones...
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Thank you for another great video. Strela looks like a great short range AA defense system, i think with a great passive sensor(optic). I am a huge fan of your channel. Best regards from Portugal 👍
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The radar on Strela-10 is there just to determine range to target. It is 100% ranging radar, can not track the target and you don't have to use it if the target is at visual range. Also, Strela-10 can also use older missiles from Strela-1. Recommended ratio is 50-50; 2 Strela-10 and 2 Strela-1 missiles where older ones are used for less sophisticated targets which makes the system even more cost effective.
In Soviet/Russian doctrine, you don't have to shoot down an aircraft in order to complete the mission; if the object you are defending is still standing after an airstrike or can be repaired, that's mission accomplished. Shooting down a plane is just more than welcome bonus. And knowing this thing is around (it's passive seeker so pilot doesn't get a warning after the launch) is enough to make any pilot nervous.
we never turned on the radar for practice. It's unnecessary, it's only there for the purposes of issuing a target-zone signal. Once a colleague turned it on during an exercise and aimed at a pair of L-159s, the planes did a disruption and circled for several minutes looking for the source that targeted them, meanwhile the colleague aimed them several times and simulated shooting, the planes never found him.
Your videos don't suck at all - they're really good productions. Cheers
MT-LBs are probably my fave USSR made kit. You can do almost any mission with it to some degree. The Strelas are one of my fave configs.
The sheer amount of modifications/varieties of the MT-LB is nuts. Even today they're still technically making new modifications, although more out of desperation than to their advantage. Still, successful platform IMO for how much use they and others have gotten out of it.
@@Stealth86651 and I think it looks pretty cool. I like the low profile.
Not me. I was in the Rhodesian security forces during the bush war when in the late 1970’s ZIPRA brought down two Vickers Viscount passenger aircraft with Strela manpads. On the first shoot down, the aircraft crash landed with survivors. A couple of hours later the terrorists arrived at the crash site and ‘unalived’ the civilian men and women survivors.
During this time I was a pilot.
The second aircraft shot down had no survivors.
@@gibbsmonly issue is they mounted the fuel tanks above the tracks inside the hull.
Makes MT-LB a fireball of hit
@@mtkoslowski I know the story . Dag Hammerskold, the UN head, was also shot down in similar circumstance, in Africa. I salute your service.
Need a troop carrier? MT-LB
Need a small SAM battery? MT-LB
Need a mortar carrier? MT-LB
Need an advanced anti tank missile system? Believe it or not, MT-LB
It's like the Chimera infantry fighting vehicle in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, but in reality. And yes, this chassis is no longer produced. This is an archaeotek.
@elusive6119 blessed be the omnissaiah who and his blessings of standardized reliable chasis
Been enjoying your videos for years, keep em comin
Great video, found it very interesting and informative. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don’t comment on videos often, but I want you to know your videos are genuinely helpful and informative, especially for systems people might overlook or undervalue such as the humble SA-13. All the folks here love you and I’m sorry RUclips keeps grinding an amazing channel into the dirt. Videos like this truly should be what pops up in recommended streams for military nerds and analysts like everyone here!
Your production quality is fantastic as for the gopher itself it remains a very legitimate threat even 30 years after its release. Funnily enough the American nemeis system is essentially the American gopher
Form follows function.
It would be interesting to compare the SA-13 and the chaparral
Reason is the the chaparral uses sidewinder based missiles, the strela uses AA-2 missiles and as we look know the AA-2 is based on a Sidewinder that the chines captured that a Taiwanese fight shot into one of their migs that didn’t explode
I think that little "whiz" sound is the gyro spinning up. I could be wrong, but that is process used on older gyro stabilized missiles and torpedoes where a compressed gas spins up the gyro right before launch.
Great video, thanks!
However, I have to bring a few corrections:
1. 3:50 Main seeker mode is photocontrast, not IR. It seeks for light objects on a dark background or vice versa.
2. M3 version is actually capable to use all 9M333's features, such as following and requisition of vanished (behind clouds, for example) targets. Also, M3 has 1,8/3,75x variable zoom instead of flat 2,8 of earlier models
3. 5:58 Just NO. The "radar" part of S-10 (called "zone assessment device") hasn't changed through modifications at all. It calculates launch parameters based on target's kinematic properties, doesn't affect missile's locking on targets and not necessary for using (quite detrimental with modern RWRs and signals intel systems).
8:56 It houses only 4 (four) missiles inside, your sources are... questionable
P.S. That №621 vehicle is from unit where I served, glad to see it 😊
@@asellusaustralis261
Thank you. I'm really interested in this and similar systems. Could you please explain how the Strela-10 crew discover the target so they can engage it? Do they get the info from external radars from the command post if the system has the capability to connect with or they rely on visually spotting the target?
@matovicmmilan the main mean to engage a target is visual contact. The missile needs the same visual contact to lock on the target, so it makes sense. Also, each divizion (not to be confused with division) has PU-12M and PPRU command vehicles. PPRU has its own radar, it can transfer target data to PU-12M, and then PU-12 can share target azimuths to S-10 (M2 or M3) through APRTsU datalink.
It was the original way to do that, nowadays it's problematic. That radio datalink is easily detectable and jammable by modern means of electronic warfare, radar is also obsolete. So S-10 crews rely on external sources of reconnaissance
Happy New Year Matsimus. Thanks to a great start to 2025.
Happy new year!
THAT whistling sound when fired is caused by a gas generator that spins the gyroscope at the back of the rocket. The 9M37M missile has a dual IR and photocontrast guidance system, the operator can turn on protection against flare interference before firing. This protection is then automatically turned on when the projectile is fired. maximum speed 2M average speed 1.5M. The speed of the target can be 425m/s on arrival and 330m/s on departure. The warhead is incredibly sensitive and accurate in guidance, although it sometimes happened if the target was at the dawn of a cloud that was irradiated by the sun that the missile caught the cloud boundary and lost the target, but in 10 years of service I have only seen it twice and it was the operator's fault who misjudged target capture.
Low-key is the key. It's pragmatic, not overengineered. Would be nice to have 8 containers though.
Your videos are always great!
TY Matt. I get this is about the "Strela' , yet a lot of viewers like the MT-LB , and 2 sources say they will be extinct soon :Covert Cabal, an Red effect .
It seems they are not built anymore , and wonderfully adaptable to any purpose, so they
are used a lot . Forestry/fire fighting , even Siberian traffic cops use them in winter, then add 2-dozen , or more and growing, military versions.
Very thin armor means they are destroyed easily. Footage is out there , and hard to believe
how they end up in such small pieces when ammo & fuel goes off.. I got nuthin' on the Strela , but I do like the looks of the MT-LB. -TY for the post on the system.
There's really no point to build anymore if they still have a large old stock pile from the cold war era that can be rebuild. Honestly that's pretty much most of the stuff we see just rebuild and upgraded older stock. I would ignore CC and just focus on RE CC is too politicalize to be objective and honest on anything where as RE has been objective and spot on.
@@ThatOneGuy-mn6dv TY the tips. There is always that confirmed kills site, where they have vehicles listed by type, and number, with multiple confirmed sources.
I also heard Ukraine made most of them , for their use, and export to many other operators. Kharkiv tractor factory.
@@robertsolomielke5134 They are all pretty much their own copy and paste of (not literally but you get the idea) of Oryx.
They are known to just make numbers up, list anything as default Russian lost, repeatedly showing the same old example but from a different time and view and repeat it as another lost. Also they don't actually explain what they mean by a lost either.
What was even more shocking is much of Western sources site Ukrainian sources that have not only been proven to be untrustworthy as stated but also who in their right mind only trust one side of a war with only one warring party in it words on face value?!
One thing is for sure doubt everything but if it is only on the Ukrainian side trust them not. It's sad to say that because I want to know what both sides are but the Ukrainian/anti-Russian side is simply mostly not to be trusted.
@@robertsolomielke5134
You're not talking about the Oryx, are you?
@@matovicmmilan Yes TY- Oryx. They should have the best data on vehicle losses imo.
*Oddly I did get a weird vibe from CC before you mentioned it...my radar was working still.
I thought you weren't releasing content or something as often I haven't been seeing you come up now I know why I'll make sure to hunt your vids down from now on keep up the good work brother
I remember the first footage from ukraine, one of these things rolling around in the streets.
I remember normals identifying it as a tank.
Because it had tracks, you see.
CNN presstitutes like to doo that
Yeah. It was Ukrainian one. The driver lost control and ran over the civilian car.
Happy New Year mate, great upload !
And yes, looking at the longevity of this system, Strela was indeed an emblem to the AA systems for decades... The system is one of the main reasons, along the Patriot, why the russians brought FABs to the game. I even consider the Strela more dangerous, for its stealth and ambushing capability, reaction time ( a lot faster than Patriot) simplicity to operate and (very) low cost.
Is amazing how a 50 yo system is still a deadly machine against modern aircraft, today... great design, indeed, hats down !
Well, RUclips clearly can’t evaluate quality.
This thing just got even cooler in my eyes now that I know its gyroscope sounds like the personal ion cannon in Renegade
Best sounding mobile missiles imo, love the gyro/gas system sound. Thanks Matt
I never get tired of these videos.
Keep making them and I'll keep watching them
Dont worry. Your Videos are good. Keep up the good work. ❤
Great vid as always
Mat bringing us an unbiased view of worldwide combat tech,no better channel when comes to that than you!!!
Great video 😊
That is some serious firepower.
Keep up the good work. Really enjoy your videos. I like the old Russian SA-8 GECKO system. During Desert Storm I believe there was a US Special Forces operation to capture one of these systems which was successful. I have not found any information on that event but it would be cool to see a video about this capture if it actually happened.
5:08 Strea-10 army of czech republik, it was mine machine :-) Firing excersice on video was on Brezina shoting range in military area Doupov :-)
Balanced informative and articulate video!! Keep it up if you can! 🐾
Pansiers are quite Naughty but I'm a bit of an old dog 🐕 so I'd probably opt for ZU-23-2
If you want to go down in the rabbit hole, the channel "The Spiffing Brit" makes videos on how the system of RUclips works and how to exploit that.
I love your military vehicle reviews. Thanks for what you do
Great journalism. Great presentation and opinions as usual.
Still my favorite channel for global military systems
Like the electrical ignition sound with these SAM systems.
Love to see a Canadian military content creator
First video of yours I’ve seen. Great content-liked and subscribed
Personally I'm partial to the cannon/missile combo on the pantsir.
Tbh it indeed is better but this system was back in time
Today there is a threat of saturation attacks
Nice vídeo!
Keep up the awsome work!
The US MIM-72 Chaparral looks cool with its sidewinder missiles but I don't know if it was ever as good as the Strela platform.
I allso love this vehicle, it looks cool, its effective.... its just a great looking bit of kit.
Don't worry we not going anywhere any time soon ^^ Thx for content.
Love your vids leaving a comment your one of my top military guys and yea you fell off my RUclips algorithm for whatever reason for quite a while, although you have been popping up a bit more lately which is better than none, so I’m goin back to watch a bunch I must have missed out on for quite some time hahaha
Great video! Cheers from Germany!
Could be used as a Drone launching platform too, for scouting/ ambush
I think the Soviets had a few mobile launch platforms that launch Soviet UAV drones a long time ago
I love your videos your labor of live doesn't go unrecognized. Been a sub for minute always rooting for you on your life
Another great video as usual. I wonder if the lower reach is purely because of competition from a few channels that have become massive recently like Task and Purpose and whatever Warographics is now called.
Leaving a comment love your videos
Great video 🍻
Always informative
For the price it certainly has a place in a layered air defense network.
Really nice video, please make more!!
The first time I saw this vehicle was in World in Conflict😁
Good stuff - as usual; thanks mate and have a happy 2025! :)
Saw similar at the Yavoriv Training Center in Ukraine in 2018. They had one with their 2S1 battery.
Good video! And good idea to study multicam.
Thank you
On to another year Matsimus. It’s hard to believe the first time I watched one of your videos I was middle school and now i’m a semster away from finishing college. Keep up the great content!!!🎉
Congrats Dobby, you will be a free elf soon.
Let’s do it Matt!
EMR is still the main uniform and will stay for a long time, Multicam is used in SMO/war by first line troops since most of the uniforms and equipment are bought privately.
It's a result of increased salaries by Russian government that is allowing soldiers to buy equipment that suits them the best.
Basically money they get goes back to military spendings
good video!
Awww it's adorable, I want one.
nice update. also have you seen the SA-8 Geckos refitted with R-73 air to air missiles?
Strela means arrow in slavic languages
First time Strela shot down an aircraft was a south african Mirage CZ in Angola in 1985
Russia modernized this system, they added a day and night camera and thermal imaging with a system of automatic target tracking, the system is called Ochotnik (hunter).
As most of these missiles are short range and as such are pretty short, I wonder how long it will be until we get a vehicle that has a VLS and as such has more than 4 pods.
Sa-15 exist in Russia
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I have seen too many videos from a drone's POV where strela-10 missile misses the drone, sometimes 2 misses back to back. I've heard that the missile fuzes have a trouble with the small-sized targets. It could be a selection bias though, as they're so many of them and used against drones all the time.
Thank you for your unbiased opinion. I believe it's important to be impartial when talking about controversial topics like this because people should know the facts and what these things are capable of so that they do not get blindsided or confused as to why the situation in Ukraine is dire right now. Instead of using propaganda to musk the success of this weapon system, countries should make countermeasures to defeat the weapon system so that they can save more lives and military assets.
He's one of only a few trusted people that can do this objectively if he ever wanted to go into this for his channel. You just can't hate him at all even if maybe one may disagree with him you can't hate the guy.
cracking video matt the gopher is a cool vehicle you think youll ever do a video of the mt-lb family
14:53 because multicam is starting to become official Russian uniform, with vkpo 2.0 and 3.0, in 3-4 years it will replace the current uniform. But the new uniform is already being delivered on the front lines, that's why a lot of soldiers are rocking multicam. Not all of them.
excellent
Christie suspension? Happy New Year Mats.
Greetings from Spain. At this point in the war in Ukraine, a list of the former USSR and Western teams can be made, comparing their performance.
13:31 Nice isekai scenario Lol I can't wait for It's anime release
Awesome
Strela is very old yet extremly effective little machine maybe best machine for war in Ukrajine cuz its cheaper than other AA systems like Tunguska or Thor and well igla cant match the power of strela its really impressive wehicle. Sometimes simplicity is better than high tech.
Normally there should be 4 of these (alongside 4 2S6 Tunguska) in every motor rifle and tank regiment in the Russian army, or 6 of each in every brigade. Some 460 units are in service in Russia alone.
Your videos don't suck at all.
Probably because your content is neutral.
Liked.... Subbed.
Your videos don't suck. I really like your channel and get excited when I see uploads.
But I've been noticing that I'm not being recommended the videos as much anymore. Which is quite frustrating.
Good luck
Hey look its “ГАРДА”
i love the system, but a missile for drones, better using a cannon like Italian guided shells, they took down drones over 5 km distance, without needs for expensive missiles. but like you said, better as being hit!
your videos don't suck matt.
Don’t we have something similar- humvee with radar and 4 stinger missiles….
Considering that Strela-10 has received a heat direction finder and new rockets with a multispectral seeker, it is too early for her to retire.
What does it really (well, roughly) look like to launch an Arrow-10 at a low-flying fighter-type target:
ruclips.net/video/zapopeYqAhI/видео.html
RUclips eats ass!
Love you Matt.
The West needs to review its anti-aircraft vehicles to include:
- PATRIOT on a platform similar to the BUK.
- Reissue the 35mm GEPARD for C-UAS and C-RAM functions (something that I think is very neglected)
- The 76mm and 127mm naval guns are options that need to be evaluated.
The Gernans already use the Patriot truck mounted. Not exactly like a Buk but still much faster and easier to set up.
The Skyranger 30 is already beeing procured as a Gepard replacement
The oto melara 76mm is already used as anti-air and missile defense on most large ships that use it.
West needs: 1. single 35mm gun with programmable ammo and MANPADs on one plaform 2. 76mm with DART ammo in land applications 3. CAMM-ER on Buk like Chassis. 4. this new brithsh laser.
@@piotrd.4850 Greetings, the CAMM-ER is a good missile, but the idea is to have anti-aircraft/ballistic defense on a mobile platform for the first line and, if necessary, to be able to use the SM-2 and SM-6.
I prefer to reissue the GEPARD with two 35mm cannons with AHEAD ammunition and SkyKnight missiles.
The 76mm must be used not only with DART ammunition, but also with the entire HE, Frag, and VULCANO range (for counterbattery fire).
The UK Laser has already been used in Yemen and, as far as I know, with success.
I wish I got a strela for Christmas 😥… maybe next year Santa will come threw for me
Actually M it appears that the Strela is using a small radar to acquire the target before launching this IR missile therefore it isn't a stealth system because aircraft are equipped with radar warning receivers.
7:28 time stamp you mentioned this. I still love your videos thou. 😁
Jan. 5, 2025 - Matt.. Mate.. So glad to see you publishing again. Happy post holidays to you and your family. I lost your mailing address a couple of years ago. I assume all is well with you folks and Chally who must be a monster dog by now. Stay well. Larry in Connecticut.. reachout if you still have my mailing address, I had to start a new email address a couple of years ago.
Insightful video on a system we don't hear of often in the Western bubble...I wonder how much each missile costs compared to say...a Patriot, just kidding.
f117 no more😎😎
Problem with Strela as primary solution in shooting down drones is that, while they are cheaper than BUK, S-300, TOR, Pantsir, it's not cost effective compare to much cheaper anti-drone solution. Which is, as you might have guess it, drones designed to shoot down drones.
What mobile platform does Canada utilize that is comparable? Great content.
@@RickysHotRodGarage we USED to have ADATS. No more.
@@_Matsimus_ Thanks I just Wikied the ADATS. Thanks, and always a thumbs up from me!
@@_Matsimus_ you were mentioning how WE - NATO doesn't seem to take drone threat seriously ....i stumbled across this SHORAD system vid....ruclips.net/video/vvaL7koOU-4/видео.html
Anyone know what the purpose of the dish in the middle is? If the missiles are fire and forget and IR tracking, why have what looks like a radio recieving dish on it?
That's so they can watch the telecast of Putin's latest speech while bathing in white phosphorus.
It's a ranging radar. It helps give exact targeting information at the outer edges of the system's range where it might be hard to get a good visual bearing. Evidently it's not normally used in practice though.
Your respect for this unit sounds like the same respect people give to mike tyson.