List of NATO reporting names for surface-to-air missiles

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NATO reporting name corresponding to US DoD SA series surface-to-air missiles, with Soviet designations or Chinese designations:

To differentiate Russian missiles from similarly named Chinese ones, RS prefix was added to the US DoD reporting name. For example, SA-N-7 became RS-SA-N-7.[1]


While multirole anti air systems were given the SA prefix, an exception was made for dedicated surface-to-air Anti-Ballistic missiles, which were given the designation of ABM:


U.S. DoD designations for SA-N series naval surface-to-air missiles, with Soviet designations. Note that these are not standard NATO names, NATO uses the regular SA series for naval SAMS also, however the US DoD refers to them by these names:

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