Video shows British-made fighter missiles, modified in 3 months to launch from the ground, scoring Russian drone kills

• Ukraine’s Air Force has released images of Raven missile systems that download Russian drones.

• The system uses an air-air missile set by England in four months to shoot 6 × 6 Supacat.

• The UK says the Raven missile system has a success rate of 70% out of 400 engagement.

Ukraine’s Air Force has released images of Raven Air defenses on Wednesday, the UK -made Raven Air defenses, which hit Russian air targets at least five cases.

The video has a Ukrainian air defense team that discusses its experiences with the system and is sprinkled with the clips of the missile rising to the sky to destroy Russian drones, interviews.

Raven fires the British advanced short-range air-havaya missile, also known as AIM-132, which was mainly equipped with the Royal Air Force Typhoon. F-35 Lightning II fighter plane.

However, the British Ministry of Defense said that in 2022, the British 6 × 6 HMT600 Supacat shipping vehicle for Ukraine. At that time, it was introduced as an important way to defend himself from Ukraine’s Russian missile strikes.

Asraam is particularly useful because infrared is guided and locked to the target when it is started even in bad weather. Location teams can Fire and quickly eatAnd they do not need to maintain a field of view with their goals.

British defense officials said that in 2023, it took about four months to educate the team’s teams to launch the missile and use the Ukrainian crew to use raven.

However, in an official video published in May, the UK’s task force supporting Ukraine Col. Olly Todd said the raven went from “concept to delivery” in three months.

“They took more than 400 aims with a success rate of more than 70%.” He said.

Supacats, UAE Hawk, Sepcat Jaguar and Panavia Tornado are equipped with missile assemblies from UK jets. These are the warplanes classes that have retired from the war in the last twenty years.

The internal crew uses a Gamepad controller to identify targets on a screen and activate the infrared locking system of the missile.

With DRONS SATING THE SKY OVER UKRAINARaven Crews said that in the Wednesday video, they aimed to have not been released to a large extent, they have rolled up their Supacat with Russian Orlan’s stickers. SalaryAnd to mark every killing of Zala drones scoring.

Raven’s launch controls have four switches that prepare each assembled missile and a large red button to shoot.

Speaking with a camera, a Ukrainian raven operator said that teams are usually trained, so that all members, including the driver and the commander, can replace each other if necessary.

According to a statement made by the British Ministry of Defense in June, Ukraine was given eight Raven system and will receive five more.

England says that the Asraam missiles given to Ukraine sit in the inventory, but its duration is expired, that is, it means that they will soon be eliminated if they are not sent to Kiev.

Ukraine deploys other air defense systems similar to Raven because they combine an ammunition and launching mixture initially built for separate systems.

Known in spoken language “Frankensamlar“The American Rim-7 Sea Sparrow Missile contains modified Soviet M1s and Soviet radar matches with AIM-9M. Sidewinder missile from air to air.

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