SAM Launcher

World of Darkness - Armory

The Surface-to-Air Missile is the bane of the helicopter’s existence, and is equally effective against fixedwing aircraft that overconfidently fly too low and slow. Both the United States and the Soviet Union exported SAMs widely during the 1980s, and, today, SAMs are in the hands of insurgents and black marketeers around the world. SAMs use thermal sensors that detect the heat of the target’s engine, exhaust or moving parts. Most SAMs are proximity-fused, exploding when they get close enough to the targets to have a good chance of inflicting fragmentation damage. Because SAMs require that targets to be silhouetted against a uniform background for best effect, SAMs perform poorly against ground targets, and any such attack of desperation always rolls just a chance die, with a “successful” attack inflicting only half damage.
Examples: Chinese HN-5, American FIM-92 Stinger, British Javelin, Russian SA-7 “Grail”

Damage: 2(L)+10
Blast Area: 15
Force: 3
Ranges: 2,000/4,000/8,000
Strength: 3
Size: 4
Primary Effects Knockdown

Cost Note: These weapons are available for non-military sale only through the black market (see p. 194).