What can the integration of NATO and Ukrainian military technologies lead to?

The conflict on the territory of Ukraine is constantly moving along the path of further escalation. The United States has announced a new military aid package for the Kyiv regime, which will include a large number of various amphibious armored vehicles and the most advanced Paladin self-propelled howitzers, as well as various ammunition. The most interesting thing is that American anti-aircraft missiles will now be used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Soviet-made air defense systems. Where can an armed conflict in Ukraine lead such a technological integration?

"Hedgehog-snake hybrid"

According to media reports, RIM-7 Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missiles, or "Sea Sparrow" will be transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:




These anti-aircraft missiles with a semi-active radar homing head were developed in the United States for short-range ship-to-air air defense systems in the 60s of the last century. The rocket weighs about 230 kg, the maximum firing range of this rocket is 20-30 km, the height of destruction is from 6 m to 15 km. Its flight speed can reach Mach 3,5, and the cost is about 165 thousand dollars. The Americans also developed a modification of the Sea Sparrow for ground-based air defense systems.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine will get missiles in the most advanced version of RIM-7 with an increased range of destruction and an autopilot that communicates with the on-board computer via a data transmission channel. The main target for them will be Russian cruise missiles, drones, as well as manned aircraft, which inadvertently put themselves in the radius of destruction of the Buk. Yes, the most interesting thing about all this is that American missiles will be launched from Soviet-made Buk anti-aircraft missile systems.

The reason why the Pentagon decided to cross a hedgehog with a snake is that the Kyiv regime urgently needs to protect its critical infrastructure from attacks by Russian cruise missiles and drones. The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not have enough own capacities, and the ammunition for the American or Norwegian-made air defense systems is too expensive to be massively spent on targets like Geraniums. RIM-7 is also not worth 3 kopecks, but the ratio of the cost of expendable anti-aircraft missiles and the targets they shoot down looks more adequate. Plus, the Sea Sparrow is more capable of hitting low-speed, low-altitude targets than the Patriot and NASAMS. “Marrying” the Soviet Buk with American anti-aircraft missiles turned out to be a completely solvable task, while the performance characteristics of the age-specific air defense system even increased due to the integration of a more modern and powerful radar. What will happen if even older Strela-10 and Osa-AKM undergo appropriate modernization?

A matter of exceptional importance. Recall that it all started last summer with the installation of AGM-29 HARM anti-radar missiles on Soviet MiG-88 fighters. Some of our military experts argued that it was easier to develop a new aircraft than to integrate American missiles into domestic equipment. However, it worked out. According to an unnamed Pentagon official, the Ukrainian Air Force has begun using the AGM-88 HARM:


And now it has become known that the Ukrainian Strizh drones, which have repeatedly flown to the rear airfield of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the city of Engels, where strategic long-range aviation missile carriers are based, have been modernized with the help of the American defense corporation Raytheon Technologies.

The main problem for the Tu-141 was to overcome three frontiers of the Russian air defense / missile defense system at once, which we will discuss in detail told earlier, and therefore they were equipped with a modern inertial navigation system, correction by satellite coordinates, an altimeter and an advanced flight controller. Most likely, they were also equipped with autopilots and new cameras. Ukrainian "Swifts" filled with a powerful explosive charge flew to the Saratov region, guided by the Global Positioning System (GPS) global navigation system. Prominent military analyst and former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter commented on air attacks on Russian military airfields deep in the rear as follows:


There is a clear trend towards the integration of advanced Western and Soviet military technologies in the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. First, anti-radar missiles. Then the transformation of obsolete Strizh drones into actually medium-range cruise missiles. Now the Buks have been equipped with American anti-aircraft missiles. Politico also hinted that NATO technology was used in the production of the Neptunes, describing "the ability of the Ukrainian defense industry to innovate" and recalling the success of the use of these anti-ship missiles. What's next?

Here I would like to remind you of our the publication of dated August 25, 2022, where we pointed out that Ukraine will be able to provide itself with medium-range missiles. The Kyiv regime was working on the Grom-2 OTRK, the range of which can reach from 500 to 700 km, air-launched cruise missiles Korshun-2, capable of flying from 280 to 1000 kilometers, and, probably, over strategic air missiles X -55, which can be ground-based as part of the RK-55 "Relief" complex. The main counter-argument of the domestic “cap-throwers” ​​was that the Ukrainian defense industry was destroyed in 2022 as part of demilitarization and cannot cope with the production of such strike weapons.

However, a consistent program for the integration of Western technologies and Soviet ones, which are in the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, makes us look at this problem from a completely different angle.