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R-25 Vulkan

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The R-25 Vulkan was a Yugoslav surface-to-air missile designed by engineer Obrad Vucurovic at the Military Technical Institute in Belgrade, developed after Yugoslavia launched a program in 1958 to build an indigenous missile because it could not import a foreign system. Prototypes were built by the SOKO aircraft factory in Mostar, and the missile first launched in November 1962, standing 8.10 meters tall at launch, using a liquid-fuel sustainer with solid-fuel booster rockets, radar guidance with infrared terminal homing, a range of 30 kilometers and a top speed of about Mach 2.5. Only twelve missiles were built before the project was abandoned by 1964, when Yugoslavia instead acquired the Soviet S-75 Dvina system, and one telemetry-equipped example survives at the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Weapon Class
guided missile 1
Introduced Year
1958 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Guided Missile 1
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1. Wikipedia: R-25 Vulkan
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Wikidata: R-25 Vulkan
Wikidata Q82827, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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