Better than Gepard: New Frankensam Air defense system for the first time shot Shahamed, - Armed Forces (Video)

Shahaned is not a simple goal, although it was managed to knock down a short distance. In general, Frankensam is a small radius. However, even up to 15 kilometers is a decent distance. This is more than anti-aircraft guns, such as Gepard, "-said Ignatius. Air Force spokesman also noted that the more such systems will be in Ukraine, the more objects they will be able Systems and mobile groups that are becoming more and more efficient in the shot of "Shahmed".

According to Yuri Ignat, a project to create Frankensam is actually launched for a long time, and now these systems have been tested in combat. In addition The various projects in the development, and all of them are already deployed on the battlefield. In addition to the representative of the APS, the use of the Ukrainian homemade air defense system was announced at a briefing in Davos by the head of the mineral strategproom Alexander Kamyshin.

He noted that such development of new air defense systems. years, but Ukraine has no time to wait, so they were created using Western missiles and the installations of the Soviet model such homemade systems. Currently, only three Frankensam project systems are known: with AIM-9M missiles on an unknown launcher, with AIM-7/RIM-7 RIM-7 missiles at the BUK BUK, as well as missiles and Patriots with Ukrainian radar.

As the New York Times became known, Ukraine, together with the United States, has created a hybrid air defense system that combines the advanced missiles of the "Earth-Air Land" missiles with modernized launchers or radars of the Soviet era. The test of the system, which was called Frankensam, was conducted in October 2023 at the rocket landfill of White-Sands in New Mexico and in November they were spotted in Ukraine.