SA-7 Grail

To counter the new advanced helicopters and aircraft the Arab Armies will recieve a new man-portable SAM, the SA-7 Grail.

The 9K32 Strela-2 (NATO reporting name SA-7 Grail) is a man-portable, shoulder-fired, low-altitude surface-to-air missile system (MANPAD) It was the first generation of Soviet man-portable SAMs, entering service in 1968. The Strela and its variants have seen widespread use in nearly every regional conflict since 1968.

The first combat use of the missile was in 1969 during the War of Attrition by Egyptian soldiers. An Israeli A-4 Skyhawk was hit with a shoulder-fired missile 12 miles west of the Suez Canal. Between this first firing and June 1970 the Egyptian army fired 99 missiles resulting in 36 hits. The missile proved to have poor kinematic reach against combat jets, and also poor lethality as many aircraft that were hit managed to return safely to base. The missile was used later in the Yom Kippur War, where Strela were fired in the hundreds, scoring few hits and fewer kills, but, together with Shilka and SA-2/3/6s, they caused very heavy losses to the Israeli Air Force in the first days. SA-7s were not that effective against fast jets, but they were the best weapon available to Arab infantry at the time.

The model and texture are shared with us by the USI and PR mod teams.