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Defence & Arms Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:52:11 PM


Russia bringing a pocket knife to a gunfight
By To Inform, February 12, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 - 1:50:56 PM

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Russia’s vaunted Air Force is now definitely at a disadvantage, they are “bringing a pocket knife to a gunfight.”

Why is it I see so much innovation coming out of Ukraine and the US is at a relative standstill?  I wonder if we could trade, oh, say a couple thousand FGM-148 Javelins in exchange for some helpful hints from Ukraine?  I’m not saying that Ukraine could teach us how to do our job. Okay, yes I am.

Why is nobody else in the US pointing out this obvious fact?

This background is from several Ukrainian media sources.

New brochures have been posted showing Ukraine’s new generation of missile seekers, developed for the Kiev-based Artem manufactured R-27 missile, which NATO calls the AA-10 Alamo.

The embargo of defense industry products between Russia and Ukraine following the Russian invasion of Ukraine has left Russia with a huge stock of Soviet era AA-10 Alamo and AA-11 Archer missiles equipped with ancient Soviet-era missile seekers, fitted in the front of the missiles to guide them to their targets.

Because Ukraine’s Artem is now the only manufacturer for the AA-10 Alamo missile,  Ukraine’s Arsenal in Kiev the only manufacturer for the guidance section of the AA-11 Archer, and Ukraine’s Luch is the only manufacturer of major components in the Russian AA-12 Adder missile, the Russian Air Force is now in trouble with replacing expired missiles, or missiles used up in combat. The Archer and Alamo are the missiles most widely carried by Russian Air Force fighter jets. The new Adder was supposed to replace the older missiles, but the Ukrainians have claimed the Russians used so many Ukrainian made parts, that they cannot build these missiles anymore.

Ukraine has now developed a new generation of missile seekers for the AA-10 Alamo missile.

The Arsenal A3-10 infrared seeker is claimed by the Ukrainians to be twice as good as Soviet era 36T seeker used by the Russians on their much older stock of Alamo missiles.

The Radionix Onyx seeker is a so-called ‘active’ seeker carrying a miniature radar and was inspired by the American AMRAAM missile. The Ukrainians say they will also install it on Soviet-era ground-based air defense missiles so the Russians can no longer jam or decoy them with electronic warfare, which the Russians call radio-electronic combat.

The Radionix Topaz turns an Alamo missile into a radar killer and was inspired by the American HARM missile. The Ukrainian Air Force will be able to shoot Alamo missiles fitted with the Topaz seeker against Russian air defense missile batteries, or Russian fighter jets if they turn their radars on.

Most of Russia’s fighter fleet are Cold War era Su-27 Flanker and MiG-29 Fulcrum jets, identical to the models the Ukrainians fly.

When the Russian Air Force goes into battle with the Ukrainian Air Force, carrying Cold War versions of the same missiles, it will be like bringing a pocket knife to a gunfight.


Source:Ocnus.net 2017

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