The 9A310M1-2 TELAR is the tracked firing vehicle of the Russian 9K37M1-2 Buk-M1-2 medium-range surface-to-air missile system. It combines four ready-to-launch missiles with an onboard Fire Dome engagement radar, allowing a Buk-M1-2 battery to disperse firing vehicles while still giving each TELAR a measure of autonomous search, tracking, and missile-guidance capability.
Russian 9A310M1-2 Buk-M1-2 TELARs are documented in the full-scale phase of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War; Ukrainian and Ukrainian-media reporting identified Russian Buk-M1-2 9A310M1-2 vehicles destroyed or damaged in the Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Donetsk sectors.
Role detailsThe 9A310M1-2 firing vehicle carries four ready missiles and is documented in Buk-M1-2 sources with 9M317 missiles, while the Buk-M1-2 family is also described as able to use legacy 9M38M1 rounds.
| Launched item | Item type | Launch evidence |
|---|---|---|
 | Primary Buk-M1-2 surface-to-air missile | Missilery.info and RusArmy describe the Buk-M1-2 modernization around the 9M317 missile and list four missiles on the 9A310M1-2 firing vehicle. Sources: Buk-M1-2 - Missilery.info, Buk - RusArmy.com |
 | Legacy Buk-family compatible missile | Missilery.info says the 9A310M1-2 self-propelled fire unit can be fitted with the standard 9M38M1 missile as well as the newly developed 9M317. Sources: Buk-M1-2 - Missilery.info |
| Compatible item | Item type | Compatibility evidence |
|---|---|---|
 | Later Buk-family air-defense system | The 9A310M1-2 belongs to the Buk-M1-2 branch, while the existing Buk-M2 page covers the later 9A317/9A317E TELAR family and shared 9M317-series missile context. Sources: Buk-M1-2 - Missilery.info, 9K37 Buk - Air Power Australia |
The 9A310M1-2 is best read as the firing vehicle inside a Buk-M1-2 battery, not as the whole air-defense system. Sources separate the TELAR from the 9S470M1-2 command post, 9S18M1-family target-acquisition radar, and 9A39M1 launcher-loader vehicles.
RusArmy describes the 9A310M1-2 as combining radar detection, tracking, target illumination, missile illumination, optical sighting, IFF, and a four-missile launcher into one digitally controlled vehicle.
Missilery.info lists six 9A310M1-2 self-propelled fire units inside the Buk-M1-2 system composition, supported by command, acquisition-radar, and launcher-loader vehicles.
This record covers the 9A310M1-2 firing vehicle; the linked 9M317 and 9M38M1 records cover missile-level details, while Buk-M2 covers the later 9A317 family.
Sources: Buk-M1-2 - Missilery.info; Buk - RusArmy.com; 9K37 Buk - Air Power Australia.
Open Russian technical references describe Buk-M1-2 as a modernization program that added the 9M317 missile and updated system equipment around the 9A310M1-2 firing vehicle.
Sources: Buk-M1-2 - Missilery.info
RusArmy states that the Buk-M1-2 variant was accepted into service in 1998.
Sources: Buk - RusArmy.com
The Commons primary image source identifies a 9A310 self-propelled launch vehicle for the Buk-M1-2 air-defense system at the Engineering Technologies 2010 exposition.
Sources: File:9A310 Buk-M1-2 Air Defence System
Euromaidan Press summarized Ukrainian Special Operations Forces reports of a destroyed Buk launcher and damaged Buk TELAR vehicles in the Sumy direction.
Sources: Ukraine destroys Russia's BUK launcher - Euromaidan Press
RBC-Ukraine reported that Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a Russian 9A310M1-2 Buk-M1-2 anti-aircraft missile system in the Zaporizhzhia direction; WarSpotting separately lists a Russian 9A310M1-2 loss on the same date.
Sources: Unmanned Systems Forces destroy Russian Buk system - RBC-Ukraine, 9A310M1-2 TELAR Losses - WarSpotting
