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The Swedish RBS 70 man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) has been spotted with Kiev forces for the first time ever.
On March 8, a photo surfaced online showing a soldier from the newly-formed 88th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces with the MANPADS in an unspecified area within the Russian special military operation zone.
It is still unknown when exactly Sweden provided Ukraine with the RBS 70. Last September, the Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister Ann Linde said the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration and Swedish Armed forces will explore the possibility of providing Ukraine with several weapon systems, including the RBS 70.
The RBS 70, which was developed by Bofors Defence, entered service in 1977. In 1982, the missile was improved to the MK I standard, while the MK II came in 1990.
The upgraded, the Mach 2 “BOLIDE” all target missile, appeared in 2003 along with improvements of the identification, friend or foe system and the ability to add a “BORC” thermal imager. In 2011, the auto-tracking RBS 70 Next Generation with an integrated thermal imager came with a range of nine kilometers and five kilometers height coverage.
Unlike most other MANPADS, which are heat seeking, the RBS 70 is guided by laser-beam riding. As a result, the system is immune to most countermeasures. However, it has no fire-and-forget capability.
The RBS 70 will pose a threat to slow, low-flying targets like drones and helicopters. However, it will not likely have much of an impact on the battlefield.
Ukraine has received thousands of MANPADS as well as several short and medium-range air defense systems from its allies since the start of the Russian special military operation last year. Despite this support, its airspace is still open for Russian aerial operations.
Neutral Sweden is not so neutral? Must be Carl XII legacy who fell at battle of Poltava.By a “chance” Carl XII has a hero status by the far right nazis in Sweden – go figure….
Despite the warmongering people of the west throwing everything they have at Russia, they will not win. Washington and the Kremlin had obviously made backroom deals to cripple Russia’s advance, but one thing they did not take into consideration is that Russian people are not weak, pathetic and emasculate beta cucks that we have in the west, and will stop at nothing to achieve victory.
yea russkies banned from sport so will win in Ukraine instead.
Sorry, but I’m not agree with you. The fact is that Russia has very good weapons and a lot of them. Their army considering the amount of weapons they own is at the best average. And I would say the Russian people are neither weak nor strong but effectively out of shape (bad habits, bad diets, lack of exercise), with lack of education and brainwashed by their state medias…kind of like the people in the USA, China or Europe.
Sweden and Norway, two pozzed up nations that have both aligned with evil, pathetic and sad, both must be punished.
I agree.. Love from Norway
Sweden hasn’t been a neutral country since before 1992. Since 1992 Sweden has been a non-aligned country not neutral but most Swedes doesn’t even know it and thinks Sweden is neutral. The Swedish government forgot to inform it citizen about the change of status. The Swedish government just put forward an proposition to the parliament on signing into law that Sweden shall join nato earlier they voted yes to proposition “Ds 2022:24”
Yes these Countries who always show themselves as reasonable and liberal in fact are nothing more than US Vassals,they are crawling out of the toxic swamp they inhabit,just look at the Countries who provided troops for Hitlers Foreign Legion,most are the same bastards.
the swedish elites have always slobbered over nazis
Bofors was bought by BAE systems in 1997. Which in turn is owned by Anglo oligarchs. Much like our “swedish” politicians really.
Here is a statement by the Nazis in Sweden about their stance on Ukraine war. It is probably the most nuanced and least anti Russian stance of any organization in Sweden, apart maybe from the Russian Orthodox Church.
https://nordicresistancemovement.org/which-side-are-we-on-in-the-ukraine-war/
I think this is the older RBS 70 the newest can be part of an integrated air defense working with external radars and so on. I think Sweden also sent the IRIS-T SLS to Ukraine.
Has extra dildo attachments for zelenskys fat arse
Sweden should have been b!tch slapped during ww2, they continue their practice. Always helping nazis, should have been annihilated looong time ago
Well, actually no. Sweden helps Ukraine to defend itself against an all out invasion by an aggressive fascist neighbour (read Russia). I don’t understand how that is connected to “always helping nazis”. And don’t give me the bullshit that “all Ukrainians are nazis”. That is Russian disinformation which strangely seems to be believed by many Russians (who watch state propaganda TV). The radical right parties in Ukraine have hardly any parliamentary representation at all.
Question: Why isn’t Russia destroying EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that crosses within 1 Kilometer into Eastern Donbass???…
we are morons—we buy zelensky villas so Russia can crush ukie nazzis
Sweden has always been a nazi state!
NAZIS are funded and controlled by all the rich families… These families have a lot of tools to control us.. Like the Masons, churges, many others…
Pathetic, just a drop in the bucket. According to Israeli reports Russia has received over 100 million shells, artillery rockets, mortar rounds, anti-tank rockets, 40mm grenades for grenade launchers and other ammo from Iran and there’s nothing Netanyahu, and his treasonous AIPAC Israel-firsters can do about it. Zelenskyy is a walking corpse. Karma is a beetch. Slava Putin. Slava Bashar Hafez al-Asad.
That isn’t better than other dozens of MANPADS types provided by numerous little whore countries to KUKRAINII kurwa on the command of the Great Whore world ‘madame’. So, impact is very close to ZERO.
Bofors is a British company since 1997. Like everything else here in Sweden, it has been bought by Anglo oligarchs.
No, it is co-owned by SAAB and BAE systems so both Swedish and British it seems.
Incorrect. If it retains the name “Bofors” it is Anglo owned. From Wikipedia:
“In 1999, Saab AB[12] purchased the Celsius Group, then the parent company of Bofors.[13] In September 2000, United Defense Industries (UDI) of the United States acquired Bofors Weapons Systems (the heavy weapons division), while Saab retained the missile interests.
The British company BAE Systems acquired UDI and its Bofors subsidiary in 2005, and BAE Systems Bofors is now a business unit of the Swedish subdivision BAE Systems AB, while the Swedish unit Saab Bofors Dynamics is part of Saab AB.”
Besides, in any joint venture with the Anglos, the Anglos always take over. It is what they do, corrupt, subvert, bribe. And since they print the money they have unlimited amounts of it.
Tak prvý krát sa objavil, hm … verím, že to bude aj posledný krát.
Saying it again as Southfront has taken the liberties to censor my comment from this read last night…
Why isn’t the Russian Federation “blasting” to Shit anything that crosses into the Eastern Donbas border within 1 kilometer?… Is it deliberate???…
The psychopatic Putin-regime would “blast” whole of Ukraine to shit if it could. But it simply can’t.
Scandinavia is a poster boy of what countries may became after decades of socialist ruling parties: LGBT dumbfucks, Greta’s eco-fascists (Swedes are now officialy recognized as Gretins) and fascist “royals” tailor both domestic and foreign policy of these countries with unison approval of braindead, lobotomized and vaccinated Scandinavian population. Good thing is they are 98% vaccinated, meaning they all may end up dead soon, which is not such a bad thing. Only people with grain of sanity there are the bloody immigrants and maybe, just maybe, they manage to save ultradecadent Danmark, Norway and Sweden, as “viking” population is of no use, and I wonder if all those viking stories are just that, fairy tales. What are you? Errr, I am viking socialist….Stupid, emasculated, lutheran protestant idiots.
What a piece of junk. What super country are you from? The mighty non-poor, not-corrupt, super-advanced country of….Romania?
Don’t seem to be very effective…..