R-3/R-13 - Soviet missile designed to counter air targets at short distances, guided radar system półaktywnym or thermally, depending on the variety. The missile is designed on the basis of the captured American AIM-9 Sidewinder. In the nomenclature of the NATO missile bears an AA-2 Atoll (English - atoll). R-3/R-13 family shots were widely used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact member states. In 1956, during combat aircraft over Taiwan Strait American F-105 Thunderchief shot in the direction of Chinese MiG-that several missiles AIM-9B Sidewinder, which missed the target and did not explode, but it fell on Chinese te