S-300 SAM System – Realistic Air Defense & Guided Missiles

🚀 THE S-300 HAS ARRIVED IN MINECRAFT BEDROCK!

Build your own mobile air-defense system with a deployable S-300 launcher, long-range target detection and guided SAM missiles.

📡 4,000-block detection range

🎯 Airborne target tracking

🚀 Guided homing missiles

🚛 Mobile + deployed modes

💥 Realistic launch & interception effects

 

🚀 CORE SYSTEM

 

The addon introduces a complete S-300 launcher system with three dedicated control items:

 

- S-300 SAM System — places the launcher vehicle.

- S-300 Deployment Kit — switches the launcher between mobile and deployed configurations.

- S-300 Fire Control — opens the targeting interface and allows the operator to engage airborne targets.

 

The launcher functions as an actual controllable vehicle and can be driven to a desired position before being converted into its stationary firing configuration.

 

🚛 MOBILE LAUNCHER

 

The S-300 starts in mobile vehicle mode.

 

Players can:

 

- Place the launcher on the terrain.

- Enter the vehicle normally.

- Drive the launcher using its vehicle controls.

- Steer the vehicle using the player's camera direction.

- Relocate the launcher before beginning an engagement.

- Deploy the system after reaching the desired firing position.

 

The launcher has its own vehicle health and collision system, allowing it to function as a persistent operational entity rather than simply being a static decorative model.

 

⚙️ DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM

 

Once positioned, use the S-300 Deployment Kit to convert the launcher from transport configuration into firing configuration.

 

The deployment process changes the vehicle's state and activates the model's deployment animation.

 

During deployment:

 

- The launcher becomes stationary.

- Its movement is disabled.

- The missile-launch assembly raises into the firing position.

- The launcher model switches to its deployed configuration.

- The launch tubes are raised vertically.

- The deck and erector components animate into their firing positions.

- The operator camera changes to a dedicated third-person operational view.

- The system becomes available for missile engagement.

 

Using the Deployment Kit again returns the S-300 to mobile mode, allowing it to be driven to another location.

 

The deployed state is also handled when the world is reloaded so the launcher can restore its appropriate operational configuration.

 

🎯 FIRE-CONTROL SYSTEM

 

The S-300 Fire Control provides a dedicated targeting interface.

 

When the launcher is deployed, activating Fire Control scans the surrounding area for potential airborne targets.

 

The targeting system is designed to avoid common Minecraft entities that should not normally be treated as aircraft or aerial targets.

 

The system filters out:

 

- Ground-level entities.

- Water creatures.

- Swimming entities.

- Dropped items.

- XP orbs.

- Falling blocks.

- TNT and similar objects.

- Boats.

- Minecarts.

- Projectiles.

- Decorative entities.

- Various non-combat entities.

- Other S-300 launchers.

- Existing S-300 missiles.

- The operator themselves.

 

Entities must also meet the addon’s airborne-height requirements before appearing as valid targets.

 

🛩️ AIRBORNE TARGET DETECTION

 

The targeting system is specifically configured around aerial engagements.

 

Potential targets are checked for their height above the surrounding ground or water surface rather than simply detecting everything inside a large radius.

 

This helps prevent the fire-control system from selecting ordinary ground mobs and objects.

 

The system also contains additional filtering for aquatic entities, including recognition patterns for custom entities from other addons whose IDs may contain names associated with aquatic creatures.

 

This makes the targeting system considerably more selective than a simple "target everything nearby" mechanic.

 

📡 LONG-RANGE TARGET SCANNING

 

The fire-control scanner can search up to:

 

4,000 blocks

 

The interface displays available airborne targets and their approximate distance from the operator.

 

Up to 24 targets can be displayed in the targeting interface at one time, with candidates ordered according to their distance.

 

Selecting a target immediately assigns that entity to the missile's guidance system.

 

🚀 S-300 SAM MISSILES

 

The addon includes a dedicated scripted missile entity.

 

Missiles are launched from the raised launcher tubes rather than simply appearing beside the vehicle.

 

Each missile has:

 

- Script-controlled flight.

- Gradual acceleration.

- Guided flight.

- Target tracking.

- Directional rotation.

- Block collision detection.

- Entity collision detection.

- Maximum flight range.

- Proximity-based target interception.

- Exhaust and launch effects.

- Explosion effects on impact.

 

Missile specifications

 

Maximum range: 4,000 blocks

Maximum speed: 6 blocks/tick

Launch speed: 1 block/tick

Maximum simultaneous missiles per launcher: 3

Launch cooldown: 1.5 seconds

Proximity hit distance: approximately 3 blocks

 

The gradual acceleration gives the missile a more realistic launch profile instead of instantly moving at maximum speed.

 

🛰️ HOMING GUIDANCE

 

When a target is selected through the Fire Control interface, the missile continuously updates its target position during flight.

 

This means the missile does not simply travel toward the target's original coordinates.

 

Instead, it continuously tracks the target entity and adjusts its flight direction as the target moves.

 

The missile can therefore pursue a moving airborne target after launch.

 

The missile's orientation also changes according to its actual flight direction, allowing the 3D missile model to visually follow its trajectory.

 

🔥 BOOST & FLIGHT PROFILE

 

Immediately after launch, the missile begins with a short vertical boost phase.

 

The flight system then gradually transitions from the vertical launch trajectory toward the target's direction.

 

After the boost phase, the missile enters its main guided flight.

 

Its speed increases progressively until reaching the configured maximum velocity.

 

This produces a launch sequence consisting of:

 

Launch → Vertical Boost → Direction Transition → Acceleration → Homing Flight → Interception

 

💥 WARHEAD & IMPACT SYSTEM

 

When the missile reaches its target, the addon triggers an explosion effect.

 

The impact system includes:

 

- Direct target damage.

- Area splash damage.

- Explosion visuals.

- Explosion sound.

- Particle effects.

- No terrain destruction.

 

The warhead has a configured blast radius of approximately 5 blocks.

 

The addon deliberately prevents the explosion from breaking blocks, allowing the S-300 to be used in survival worlds, military builds and large-scale scenarios without automatically destroying the surrounding environment.

 

🌫️ MISSILE EXHAUST EFFECTS

 

During flight, the missile produces a visual exhaust trail using Minecraft particle effects.

 

The missile uses:

 

- Smoke particles.

- Flame particles.

- Launch effects.

- Explosion particles.

- Explosion sound effects.

 

These effects make the missile's trajectory easier to see during an engagement.

 

🎮 OPERATOR CAMERA SYSTEM

 

The addon includes a dedicated camera system for operating the S-300.

 

When the launcher is deployed while the player is riding it, the player's camera is moved into a controlled third-person operational position behind the launcher.

 

This provides a better view of:

 

- The launcher.

- The elevated missile tubes.

- The surrounding battlefield.

- Incoming or selected aerial targets.

 

When the launcher returns to mobile mode, the camera is restored.

 

🧭 MOBILE → DEPLOYED → MOBILE WORKFLOW

 

The complete operational cycle is designed around a mobile air-defense platform:

 

1. Place the S-300

 

↓

 

2. Enter the launcher

 

↓

 

3. Drive to the desired position

 

↓

 

4. Use the Deployment Kit

 

↓

 

5. Launcher enters firing configuration

 

↓

 

6. Open Fire Control

 

↓

 

7. Select an airborne target

 

↓

 

8. Launch SAM missile

 

↓

 

9. Missile accelerates and homes onto target

 

↓

 

10. Target interception

 

↓

 

11. Continue engagement or undeploy

 

↓

 

12. Use Deployment Kit again

 

↓

 

13. Drive to a new position

 

🧰 CRAFTING SYSTEM

 

The addon includes dedicated crafting recipes for the complete system.

 

S-300 SAM System

 

Crafting pattern:

 

Iron Block | Iron Block | Iron Block

Iron Block | Dispenser | Iron Block

Iron Block | Redstone Block | Iron Block

 

S-300 Deployment Kit

 

Iron Ingot | Redstone | Iron Ingot

Redstone | Piston | Redstone

Iron Ingot | Redstone | Iron Ingot

 

S-300 Fire Control

 

Iron Ingot | Redstone | Iron Ingot

Redstone | Spyglass | Redstone

Iron Ingot | Redstone | Iron Ingot

 

This creates a complete progression from launcher construction to deployment and fire-control equipment.

 

🧱 3D MODEL & ANIMATION

 

The resource pack contains a dedicated S-300 model with a large baked texture atlas and separate missile geometry.

 

The launcher includes an animated deployment sequence, allowing the model to visually transform from transport configuration into firing configuration.

 

The resource pack contains:

 

- Detailed S-300 launcher geometry.

- Separate SAM missile model.

- Custom launcher texture.

- Missile texture.

- Item textures.

- Deployment animations.

- Animation controllers.

- Custom render controller.

- Bedrock-compatible geometry.

 

The S-300 launcher geometry uses a converted Bedrock-compatible model structure suitable for the addon environment.

 

⚔️ DESIGNED FOR AIR-DEFENSE SCENARIOS

 

The S-300 system can be used for a wide variety of Minecraft military scenarios, including:

 

- Air-defense bases.

- Military installations.

- Modern warfare maps.

- PvE air-defense missions.

- PvP military servers.

- Aircraft interception scenarios.

- Large-scale military roleplay.

- Convoy and battlefield systems.

- Airport defense.

- Strategic defense networks.

- Custom combat maps.

 

Because the launcher can be transported before deployment, it can also be incorporated into mobile air-defense formations rather than being restricted to one permanent location.

 

📱 BEDROCK COMPATIBILITY

 

The addon is designed for Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.0+ and uses the stable Bedrock scripting APIs specified by the addon.

 

The package includes:

 

- Behavior Pack

- Resource Pack

- Script module

- UI module

- Custom entities

- Custom models

- Custom animations

- Custom recipes

 

The addon is designed to operate without requiring experimental gameplay features according to its included documentation.

 

📜 CREDITS

 

Addon Owner: STANxGOAT

 

3D Model: "lowpoly S-300" by SIpriv on Sketchfab

Licensed under CC BY 4.0

 

The original 3D geometry was converted into a Bedrock-compatible format and integrated with the addon's vehicle, animation and missile-control systems.

 

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S-300 SAM SYSTEM

 

A mobile, deployable and script-driven air-defense platform for Minecraft Bedrock.

 

Drive. Deploy. Detect. Track. Launch. Intercept.