Can anyone identify this missile from a picture with Russian(?) text on it?

Title pretty much says it all.

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7806/missiled.jpg

The text begins несущые… (nesushchye…), which appears to be the plural form of the adjective (well, participle) несущий, “supporting” or “carrying.”

ETA: I haven’t the faintest idea how to go further with that. The Russian word for missile appears to be ракета (raketa).

Thanks for the information. I do have this other (very grainy cell phone picture).

I believe that is some version of the SA-6 “Gainful”, a Surface to Air missile that entered service in the early 1970s.

Stranger

I wonder if this is what you are looking at?

Did you take the picture in Russia? Its not correct in Russian to write “несущые”. The plural of “несущий” is “несущие”. So I can’t say whether that’s actually Russian writing as opposed to Ukranian or Serbian where spelling rules could very well be different. That or there was a particularly illiterate missle officer painting on the missle.

Thanks after googling I found this picture that looks exactly like it.

Kind of funny you linked to that picture. After seeing Stranger’s post, I searched and saw the exact one myself. :smiley: I do believe that’s what I am looking at.

I actually took this picture in Alabama. It’s outside of a Dynetics facility.

I emailed their media/public relations people asking them. Who knows if they will actually respond.

I thought the same thing. I double-checked some reference works, which confirm the spelling rule even in participles, and the internet, which confirms that Russians do misspell it. There were only about a dozen hits for несущые or несущый, as compared with over two million hits for the -ий / -ие endings, but every single one was in Russian. It’s not the right ending for Ukranian, anyway. The odd spelling of the word even appears in an academic journal from 1904, written in the old orthography.