A component of a Soviet mobile anti-aircraft system from the early 1970s. The SURN 1S91M1 (SSWN) radar reconnaissance and guidance station on a tracked chassis of the 2K12 Kub anti-aircraft missile system (NATO code SA-6 Gainful). In addition to this station, the system includes four SPU 2P25M1(SW) launchers, 3M9ME or 3M9M3E guided missiles (PRK), two transport-loading vehicles (STZ), a K-1 automated fire control system and auxiliary equipment.
The Kub system was developed in the early 1960s at the OKB-134 GKAT design bureau in the USSR. It entered serial production and was adopted for service in 1966. Production continued until the early 1980s. Approximately 2,000 systems were produced, of which over 1,100 were intended for export (including about 440 to Warsaw Pact states). The Soviet Army had approximately 875 systems in service.
The combat debut of the Kub system was the Yom Kippur War between the Arab states and Israel in October 1973. Kubs belonging to the Egyptian and Syrian forces shot down 30 Israeli aircraft. Other major armed conflicts in which Kub systems were used successfully included the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 and the Gulf War of 1991 (on the Iraqi side), as well as the war in Yugoslavia (Serbian forces). Kub systems are still used by the Polish Armed Forces.
