It was also seen as advantageous to have a system capable of fast reaction times and immunity to heavy radio-frequency jamming.

[2] Also improved missiles (9M37M and 9M333) have been developed and by September 2007 the 9K35M3-K Kolchan variant, mounted on a BTR-60 wheeled chassis, was displayed for the first time at the Moscow Air Show MAKS 2007.

[1] The Russian Armed Forces will receive 72 advanced mobile "night" short-range anti-aircraft missile complexes "Strela-10M4" by 2016.

Some vehicles have a pintle-mounted PKT 7.62 mm machine gun in front of the forward hatch for local protection.

Four missiles are mounted on the turret in boxes, ready to launch, and eight more are carried inside the vehicle as reloads.

The 9M37 was quickly replaced with a slightly improved 9M37M (main improvement was in more efficient autopilot system for missile flight path control), and later the more significantly upgraded 9M333, which introduced:[2] All missiles—9M31M, 9M37, 9M37M and 9M333—are equipped with optical homing heads utilizing reticle-based photocontrast and/or infrared homing.

For comparison purposes data for nearest western equivalent, the somewhat larger and heavier MIM-72 Chaparral, is also provided.

On February 20, 1988, 31-year-old Major Edward Richard Every from 1 Squadron SAAF, was killed in action when his Mirage F1AZ (serial 245) was shot down by a Cuban Strela-10 surface-to-air missile in Cuatir (near Menongue) while on an attack mission over Southern Angola.

[12] During NATO bombing campaign against FR Yugoslavia, a Strela-10 managed to hit an A-10 of United States Air Force on 11 May 1999.

[13] On April 14, 2018, American, British, and French forces launched a barrage of 105 air-to-surface and cruise missiles targeting eight sites in Syria.

During the opening days of the war, several videos released by the Azerbaijani military showed several Armenian 9K33 Osa and Strela-10 vehicles destroyed by Bayraktar TB2 armed drones.

[16][17] A Strela-10 from the Ukrainian Armed Forces was recorded running over a civilian car in the opening weeks of the war.