The Lavochkin OKB S-75 (Russian С-75, NATO reporting name SA-2
Guideline) is a Soviet Union designed high-altitude, command
guided, surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. Since its first
deployment in 1957, it has become the most widely deployed and
used air defense missile in history.  This system first gained
notoriety when an SA-2 battery shot down a U.S. Air Force (USAF)
U-2 overflying the Soviet Union in 1960. Later, North Vietnamese
forces used the S-75 extensively during the Vietnam War to
defend Hanoi and Haiphong. It has also been locally-produced in
the People's Republic of China using the names HQ-1 and HQ-2.
Other nations have produced so many local variants combining
portions of the S-75 system with both indigenously developed
components or third party systems, that it has become virtually
impossible to find a pure S-75 system today. View in Google
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