The 2K12 "Kub" mobile surface-to-air missile system is a Soviet low to medium-level air defence system designed to protect ground forces from air attack. 2К12 is the GRAU designation of the system.
2P25 TEL with missiles elevated (2K12 Kub SAM of Serbian 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade)
2P25 TEL with missiles erected
Rear view of the Kub at the Central Museum of Russian Armed Forces
The Buk is a family of self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation, and designed to counter cruise missile
2K12 Kub
…the self-propelled components. Many of the design bureaus would later go on to co-operate in the development of the successor to the 2K12 "Kub", the 9K37 "Buk". First trials of the missile system were started at the end of 1959 to discover a series of problems…
Buk-M1-2 air defence system in 2010
A Buk-M1-2 SAM system 9A310M1-2 TELAR at 2005 MAKS Airshow
Inside the TELAR of a Buk-M1 SAM system
Inside the TEL of a Buk-M1-2 SAM system