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The Pentagon has decided to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense with the FrankenSAM program. It aims to adapt Soviet-era SAMs to foreign-made missiles. As part of this program, U.S. experts integrated AIM-7 and AIM-9M missiles with Buk and Strela-10 SAMs. The most powerful integration was the adaptation of Ukrainian SAMs to launch Patriot missiles. The Patriot […]
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have several air defense systems in service. Soldiers of the 1,129th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment of Bila Tserkva demonstrated the combat use of the Stormer HVM on Facebook. The Ukrainian Armed Forces received these systems from the United Kingdom. In the video, the soldiers showed the work of the British SAM […]
The US helped Ukraine create two types of anti-aircraft missile systems capable of firing Western AIM-9M and RIM-7 missiles as part of the FrankenSAM project. “FrankenSAM was formed from a combination of the English words “Frankenstein” and “SAM”. The cooperation resulted in the creation of an anti-aircraft missile system capable of firing AIM-9M Sidewinder air […]
A fragment of the combat work of the crew of the Ukrainian Arrow-10 missile system has been published online. “The moment our soldiers shot down a Russian drone using the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system,” the commentary to the video reads. Strela-10 is a Soviet anti-aircraft missile system. It is designed for visual surveillance and destruction […]
The United States launched the FrankenSAM project (translated from English as Frankenstein and SAM), which helped Ukraine develop an anti-aircraft system capable of firing at air targets with foreign-made missiles. This was reported to AP by a senior Pentagon official. The new SAM is compatible with the AIM-9M Sidewinder. Radars and other components necessary to […]
On the night of November 5, 29 Shahed-136s were launched in the direction of Ukraine. Ukrainian air defense units managed to shoot down 24 barrage munitions. To repel the attack, the Neva air defense system (also known as the S-125) was used. Mykola Oleshchuk posted a video of the complex’s combat operation on Telegram. In […]
Ukrainian military designers have repurposed the S-200 anti-aircraft missile system, which will now function as a long-range surface-to-surface weapon. These modified missiles will be used to defeat Russian troops in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Originally developed in the 1960s by the Soviet design bureau Diamant, the S-200 was designed for operations against American strategic […]
On the night of October 3, a train collided with an occupier’s Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system at a railway crossing in Donetsk Oblast. This was reported by the ASTRA Telegram channel. “The night before, on the Yenakiyevo-Uglegorsk stretch, a freight train hit a Russian Arrow-10 SAM,” the statement said. According to the Telegram channel, the […]
OSINTtechnical believes that the location of the battery of the Russian occupiers’ S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system was revealed last year in a photo taken by a Russian tourist “somewhere in the area of Lake Solone.” He showed a satellite image of the southern coast of Crimea near Yevpatoriya for August 28, where the S-400 […]
S-300Vs on the Kuril Islands, which are recognized as occupied territories by Russia, played the role of the main umbrella over military facilities and long-range missile launchers. The Russian Federation has deployed its S-300V anti-aircraft missile systems, which have been deployed since 2020 on the Iturup and Kunashir islands. At the same time, the task […]