The U.S. HAWK surface-to-air missile system has been sent to Ukraine. Credit: U.S. Air Force Lawmakers want the U.S. Air Force to explore adapting the quickly developed, open source-based surface ...

The latest creation is a new surface-to-air missile launcher capable of firing AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles. The Pentagon calls the ad-hoc air defense program “FrankenSAM.” ...

The Dan-M, originally conceived by Russia’s Sokol Design Bureau during the 1990s as an air defense training target drone, has been re-engineered by Moscow into a cruise missile imitation, now ...

Soviet Buk air defense missile systems are shown during a military parade in Kyiv on August 24, 2016, to celebrate Ukraine's Independence Day. The Buk systems are among several that Ukraine, ...

Ukraine has also repurposed the retired Soviet-era S-200 surface-to-air missile systems for ground attack use, according to a UK intelligence update from August. Recommended video.

A third, the Cold War-era Hawk missile system, was displayed on Ukraine’s battlefield this week for the first time, in an example of what Laura K. Cooper, a senior U.S. defense official, had ...

In the hybrid Soviet-Western air defense's debut, it shot down a Russian Shahed-136 drone from 9 kilometers of distance during an overnight attack.

These missiles feature folding fins, ... The Aspide 2000 is an Italian-made SAM derived from the same AIM-7E that was used as the basis for the original RIM-7 Sea Sparrow.

Briefing Ukrainian Arms 2024. Photo: Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. It is known that the FrankenSAM programme (a combination of the words Frankenstein and SAM, which means surface-to-air missile ...

It’s a combination of Ukraine's old, Soviet-era surface-to-air missile system, the Buk M1, "MacGyvered" to work with different combinations of radar systems and American missiles, including U.S ...

In the hybrid Soviet-Western air defense's debut, it shot down a Russian Shahed-136 drone from 9 kilometers of distance during an overnight attack.