Draft:SAHV-3
South African Surface To Air Missile
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Submission declined on 18 February 2026 by MCE89 (talk).
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The SAHV-3 was designed to counter helicopters, fast-attack aircraft, and missiles, particularly those attacking at very low altitudes.
Specifications
Proximity Fuse: 10m RF with high kill probability.
Guidance: RF command link (often used with the Thomson-CSF Castor 2J radar for tracking).
Maneuverability: Peak 40g (single-plane).
Operational Altitude: Up to 8 km (effective) or well over 30,000 ft.
Range 15 km (effective range ~12 km).
Mach 3.5 (approx. 3,950 km/h).
Projectile mass 123 kg.
Warhead mass 22 kg High Explosive (HE) fragmentation.
Development Status
While testing was successful and prototypes were built in the early 1990s, the full production of the land-based SAHV-3 system was halted, with development efforts shifting toward the vertical-launch Umkhonto naval system.
Variants
•SAHV-RS: A variant with an Active Radar Homing (ARH) seeker, Fox-3 Identification.
•SAHV-IR: An infrared-homing variant with a 2-colour IR seeker, Fox-2 identification.

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