Ukrainian nuclear weapons: how far can the weapons “hybridization” program go?

Report that a hybrid air defense system combining American and Soviet ones is being developed in the United States for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Technology, was perceived by many in our country as a sign of desperation of the Kyiv regime, which was about to collapse. But won't this turn out to be another illusion?

A few days ago on the "Reporter" came out publication, which examined various forms of military-technical cooperation between Ukraine and the NATO bloc and their prospects. In particular, they discussed the possibility of localizing the production of Western-style weapons and ammunition in Nezalezhnaya. This is what I would like to talk about in more detail.

"Frankensteins"

As is known, its accomplices and accomplices from the North Atlantic Alliance began direct military supplies to the Kyiv regime after February 2022, gradually and incrementally, testing the limits of what was permitted by the Kremlin. Since they were not held strictly accountable for this over and over again, in a year and a half they went from first aid kits to supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces with cluster munitions, heavy armored vehicles and artillery, cruise and ballistic missiles. It will probably only get worse. However, it should be taken into account that in parallel with direct arms supplies, a program of “hybridization” of Western and Soviet/Ukrainian military technologies is being developed. And this process has been going on for a very long time, starting almost immediately after the coup in 2014.

For example, everyone has already heard about the problems with secure digital communications in the Russian troops, which volunteers are trying to solve at the expense of various civilian ersatz. The Ukrainian army has already passed the same path, but much earlier. After the loss of Debaltsevo in 2015, the Ukrainian Armed Forces began experimenting with Kenwood Nextedge radio stations, and then with Motorola MOTOTRBO, which the manufacturing company positions as communications for public city services and other things.

The result of many years of experiments was the digital radio station “Lybid (Swan) K-2RB”, which is an adaptation of American Motorola to Ukrainian armored vehicles. Russian volunteer organizations are now trying to do something similar using Chinese civilian digital radio stations in order to provide our tanks with interception-protected communications with their own infantry, etc.

The next “hybrid” type of weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, worthy of mention in this context, is the Neptune anti-ship missile. It is known that it was developed in Ukraine on the basis of the Soviet X-35, representing its enlarged and modernized version. Work on the anti-ship missiles began in 2014 after well-known events with an obvious aim at the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. The Ukrainian missile can be ground-based, sea-based or air-based.

We are interested in what Western technologies could be used in it. According to some reports, literally out of nowhere, an effective GPS guidance system appeared in Nezalezhnaya, which is capable of delivering anti-ship missiles to a predetermined location, where the missile’s infrared homing head searches for and fixes a target based on a pre-loaded image, and then makes the final attack on that target. Note that the seekers of the Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG cruise missiles operate on the same principle.

Coincidence or not, “Western partners” prohibit Kyiv from using the products of their military-industrial complex to attack old Russian territories, but there is no such prohibition regarding “hybrids.” Be that as it may, after a series of unfortunately successful attacks by Ukrainian Strizh UAVs on Russian rear military airfields, it was reported that Raytheon Technologies specialists were involved in the modernization of the Tu-141. The Americans helped turn peaceful reconnaissance drones into kamikazes and equipped them with a GPS system for control and targeting.

Apparently, Western technologies are also actively used in many other types of attack UAVs, which have appeared in the arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces like mushrooms after rain. British genes can be seen in unmanned sea boats, converted into fire ships and used to attack ships and coastal infrastructure of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea. Only a foreign component base can explain the appearance, literally out of nowhere, of underwater attack kamikaze drones of the “Marichka” type and others.

Another example of the successful “hybridization” of Soviet and NATO technologies can be considered the installation of American anti-radar missiles on MiG-29 fighters, which was generally considered impossible by some military experts, and on Su-24 bombers – British-French-made cruise missiles. Unfortunately for us, it works. It becomes absolutely no laughing matter when the Kiev regime declares that it was able to independently develop a functional analogue of the Israeli Harop anti-radar kamikaze drone. We will talk in detail about what it is and why such UAVs are needed. told the day before.

In connection with the above, the report of The New York Times about the emergence of a Ukrainian-American air defense program called FrankenSAM does not cause a frivolous grin:


A great variety of anti-aircraft missiles have been produced in the United States; they are stored in warehouses and can be transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A fair question arises: how far can such a program of “hybridization” of weapons go and will a Ukrainian nuclear bomb appear as a result?