SA-1 Red Mist
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| Type: | Surface-to-Air Missile |
| Designer: | ESB Design Bureau |
| Manufacturer: | ESB Group |
| In service: | 1640 – 1667 |
| Used by: |  Imperial Forces
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| Status: | Retired |
SA-1 Red Mist, Shirerithian surface-to-air missile reverse engineered from the Minarborian Burdock surface to air missile[1] during the 1640s. Deployed on Boojum mobile-launchers as part of the Sart Shuck missile complex.
The missile itself consisted of two stages, the first comprised of two solid fuel boosters and two ramjets, and the second, with its own separate short range solid fuel rocket motor, which housed the continuous-wave radar receptors and electro-optical infrared homing seeker and a continuous-rod warhead.
By the mid-1660's the stockpile of SA-1 missiles had heavily depleted, with many being expended during various conflicts with Jingdao or else removed from operational stockpiles as critical internal components reached their life-expiry point. From 1667 onward remaining examples of the missile type were withdrawn from service and replaced by the System 2 Standard Missile concurrent with the beginning of the phased disassembly of the Boojum launchers in order to salvage gravimetric components for the Nereid programme.
