[Error?] SA-3 range

[Robin_Hood]

I've noticed that the range of the SA-6 / Kub was fixed, which is great news! So I've been wondering about the range of the SA-3 / S-125, that doesn't seem to match what information I can find online (while other systems usually match pretty well).

 

Also, there are some interisting numbers in the files. While most other SAM systems have maximum distances that match pretty good across files, the S-125, as far as I can see, has three different range values:

 

18 km in missile.lua

GT_t.LN_t.S125.distanceMax = 18000;

11 km and 25 km ? in missile_data.lua

D_max = 11000.0,
Range_max = 25000.0,

I remember from earlier testing that the threat ring (at 18 km) matched the missile firing in-game.

 

From what I've been able to gather, we have the 5V27 (also SA-3b), that is often given for 25 km (ex: weaponsystems and armyrecognition for example).

Now maybe I'm missing something and the 18 km range in DCS is correct for the exact version we have (which is not very clearly indicated), but I thought this might be worth looking at.