FrankenSAM Project

NMaude said:
Have any of the Ukrainian sea-drones been equipped AA-8 Aphids? IIRC the Ukrainians have a large number of them in storage that they'd inherited from the collapse of the USSR.
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Question would be if the rockets were still good.

lighting a cracked solid rocket makes a big BOOM!
 
Scott Kenny said:
Question would be if the rockets were still good.

lighting a cracked solid rocket makes a big BOOM!
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True but Ukraine was the main missile-house for the Soviet Union so I'm sure they could recondition and/or build new rocket-motors for them, it also depends how well they've been stored.
 
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The BFBS Forces News channel has just uploaded an a video about the UK's Raven SAM system:


For the first time the UK military has revealed details of a ground-breaking air defence system supplied to Ukraine.
The military call it a ‘FrankenSAM’ – an innovative mix of existing military tech, meshed together into a highly effective air defence system that has been in use in Ukraine for the past two years.
Raven, as it is officially called, is based around a Supercat HMT 600 all-terrain vehicle – the same platform used for the British Army’s Coyote.
On the back engineers mounted a missile launcher, fitted with rails taken from retired RAF Tornado, Hawk and Jaguar jets
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Interesting piece about Raven...but also decoys....UK is reportedly sending 30 decoys for every 5 systems...

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timmymagic said:
Interesting piece about Raven...but also decoys....UK is reportedly sending 30 decoys for every 5 systems...

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Clever! The Russians will be playing drone whack-a-mole trying to get the real launchers;):D.
 
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Scott Kenny said:
Who the heck still had RIM-7s to donate?!?
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That particular FrankenSAM was a US led project, so you'd have to assume it was the US. But plenty of European nations had RIM-7 in the past so perhaps it was a trawl around everyone's storage bases to find missiles that hadn't been disposed of....must have been a decent number to make the entire project worthwhile though...
 
I believe Canada is sending AIM-7's to Ukraine although the government hasn't specified exactly. They just said they were sending AIM missiles.
 
Devin said:
I believe Canada is sending AIM-7's to Ukraine although the government hasn't specified exactly. They just said they were sending AIM missiles.
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Actually, in the last press release, they said: "rocket motors and ancillaries" ... so, most recently, missile spares from RCAF inventory. Below is a summary of AAM donations cribbed from a Department of National Defence webpage. (Note that dates are for the announcement of donations, not delivery of missiles or components.)

Source: Canadian donations and military support to Ukraine; Air Defence Missiles
-- https://www.canada.ca/en/department...gns/canadian-military-support-to-ukraine.html

AIM-120 x 12; 15 March 2023; from CAF inventory; delivered

AIM-9 x 43; 25 May 2023; from CAF inventory; delivered

AIM-7 x 250; 10 June 2023; from CAF inventory; delivered*
-- * To US for repurposing for use in air defence systems

AIM 9M x 233 rocket motors; 04 June 2025; in-progress

AIM 9M x (?) rocket motors & ancillaries; 04 June 2025; in-progress

AIM-7 x 125 missile components; 16 Oct 2025; in progress

AIM-7 x (?) rocket motors & ancillaries; 16 Dec 2025; in progress

AIM-9 x (?) rocket motors & ancillaries; 16 Dec 2025; in progress
 
Was that the wisest point to hit? One cant know just how much damage from that one missile would spread to other parts of the sam system. Perhaps ramming the drone into the illumination radar on the vehicle would have been a better choice.
 
aonestudio said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2040432921991934459
View: https://x.com/WarVehicle/status/2040432921991934459
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The way that thing just snuck up there? That was molester-level creepy.

“We are not just going to blow up your stuff, but first we’re going to cop a feel. Don’t hide that nosecone behind a skirt…”

Poor thing will be on a milk carton next week.

Expo’26 is proud to present the new weapon system CHeSTR

*where on the hitler did the doll touch…”
 
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