The Ethiopian mobile S-75 launcher looks the same as these Cuban ones seen in a 2006 parade. (PA Photos)
Ethiopia is converting some of its S-75 (SA-2 ‘Guideline’) surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) into mobile systems by mounting them on the hulls of T-54/55 tanks.
A photograph of one of the S-75 launchers mounted on a T-54/55 hull was published by the Somali news website Garowe Online on 19 April to accompany a story about the president of Somalia’s Puntland region visiting Ethiopia’s Gafat Armament Industry, which is part of the military-run Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC).
Other photographs showed missiles for the S-75 system at the same industrial complex.
Ethiopia has had S-75 systems since the 1970s, some of which are still deployed at three fixed sites around Addis Ababa, its S-125 (SA-3 ‘Goa’) systems deployed closer to the Eritrean border to defend strategic locations.
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