Archie to SAM: A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air ...

FROM GUNS TO MISSILES
Figure 45. Seaslug. The Seaslug was an early Royal Navy SAM that
served in the Falklands War but earned no victory credits. (Reprinted
from Imperial War Museum.)
MATRA R422-B, and the Swiss (Oerlikon) built the RSD 58,
again all first-generation missiles.
Meanwhile, the Soviets were also making progress with SAMs.
Their Soviet antiaircraft missile evolved from German World
War II programs. The first Soviet SAM, the SA-1, was a German
Wasserfall with ground (command) guidance. It became operational
in early 1954, the same year the US Army deployed the
Nike Ajax. The West first saw its successor, the SA-2, in 1957.
The Soviets designed this missile to defend against high-flying,
essentially nonmaneuvering, strategic bombers. The SA-2 first
achieved prominence by knocking down an American U-2 over
the Soviet Union in the spring of 1960 and downing another
over Cuba in October 1962. 40 SAMs introduced a new element
into air warfare, shifting the advantage back toward the defense.
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