Aboard USS John C. Stennins (CVN-74) – the aircraft carrier launches a RIM-7 NATO Sea Sparrow System (NSSM) missile during a missile exercise. Sea Sparrow is also used for the Basic Point Missile Defense System (BPDMS) for anti-ship missile defense. August 27, 1997. (U.S. Army photo)
An officer of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has warned from a Ukrainian plan to integrate American-made RIM-7 Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missiles on Buk-M1 air defense system left from the Soviet era.
The unnamed officer told the TASS news agency on January 15 that incompatibility between the missile and the air defense system could threaten civilians.
The United States announced the supply of Sea Sparrow missiles, which were developed in the 1960s to provide point-defense for naval vessels, for integration on Ukrainian air defense systems earlier this month. The plan is mainly meant to keep Kiev’s remaining Buk-M1 systems operational for use against Russian warplanes, drones and missiles.
“The situation with RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is far from simple. This is almost the same missile aircraft used to be equipped with, and it was previously called AIM-7. Positioned as a medium-range projectile, it was first used in combat during the war in Vietnam,” the officer told the Russian news agency.
The Sea Sparrow has an engagement range of around 19 kilometers. It is guided by semi-active radar, the same guidance method used by the 9М38-series missiles of the Buk-M1 system.
The DPR officer noted that there is a “huge difference” between anti-aircraft missiles designed to be launched from naval vessels and others made to be launched from ground vehicles.
“I cannot say how, if at all, they are adapted for ground-to-air defense purposes,” the officer said. “Obviously, these missiles can be installed somewhere and somehow launched. Even Soviet-era missile systems can be used for that, but the question is how its seeker will work and whether the control systems of the missile and the missile system can be synced. And nobody knows how all this will work. So far, Ukrainian air defenses have been regularly hitting residential areas from standard, Soviet-era missile systems.”
Taiwan has been the only country to operate the ground-launched version of the missiles, as a part of the Swiss-developed Skyguard air defense system. The U.S. and multiple allied navies use the original naval version only.
Air defense missiles launched by Kiev forces have repeatedly fallen on residential areas in different parts of Ukraine as well as in neighboring countries.
In mid-November, a missile launched from an S-300 long-range air defense system of Kiev forces killed two farmers in the Polish village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine. Similar incidents were reported in Moldova and Belarus in later weeks.
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Just i mentioned Ukraine is running out of ammunition. Wrong missile in a gun threat the solders and disables the system. Stupid guys. If you run out of munitions you have to surrender. 100 western battle tanks do not help eighter to keep on fighting
They keep giving more ordnance to Zelensky’s gay jewish neonazi failforce maybe its a cruel inside joke or secretly the ukraine is killing their own army on purpose. Or their mgmt is just a bunch of idiots in denial. Something funky…
I was thinking the very same thing, spot on calling it as is…
Their globalist masters won’t let them surrender, want to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian…..
They’re not really globalist. Globalism was always a US method of imperialism. A multi-polar post-US imperium is going to be globalized. That’s just the nature of human beings. The issue is who rules. The US will not tolerate a “partner” like Russia that wields any power, which is why Russia was excluded from a security block that the US would love to turn against China, as well as annoyances like Iran, Venezuela, etc. Whatever one thinks of the Soviet Union, its very existence meant that the US empire had to make some accommodation to the citizenry. They gave that up when they adopted the Petro-dollar and simply pursued the destruction of the Soviet Union.
🙄 Now that’s an act of pure desperation….
USA arms dealers are having a fireside sale before the “best before dates” go off on the war machine’s arsenals. But I digress, it’s guys like Bills Gates waging a war on independent farming, buying up farms, this is a globalist hit list in action, a truly independent or united with Russia, Ukraine will always stand in the way of the eugenics cultists from controlling and corrupting the whole of the food supply with imbedded gmo-plant genomic toxins leading to sterilization with every bite, in herd and human populations. Obviously, the jig is up, Russian people aren’t having it.
The more this goes on, the more I am convinced, that Jews just want Ukrainians and Russians dead, with the highest death toll possible. Then when the war is over, Jews are going to come in and buy everything. And then, Ukraine will bring in African and Asian migrants to rebuild the place (since Jews do not do manual labor).
Not just buy everything, but, aren’t those with zero semetic DNA in Jerusalem hoping to return Ukraine, preferably Crimea? Gates, Beyer-Monsanto and Blackrock have purchased all they can find.
What is strange, is the fact that the US was supposedly calling the shots and managed to get rid of the EU industry. Together with their own industry, to the benefit of China. They have not managed to overthrow Russia or dispose of Russian Industry, or pillage the natural resources of Russia. Was it by design or just coincidence that the East, without any effort is no longer threatened by the West?
Neviem to teraz isto, ale myslím, že som niekde videl informáciu, že Ukrajina vlastnila cca 900 S300!!! Munícia Banderovským fašistickým zverom do S300 istotne dochádza a tak niet divu, že by sa mohli o niečo takého pokúšať. Treba byť preto opatrný a sledovať tento trend a to veľmi pozorne.
Ukranazis are really getting desperate.
It’s not for the Ukrainians. It’s for the future clash of civilizations in Europe
That’s precisely why there is a large impending offensive by the RF. The gloves will come off.
More of a joke than a warning….