Should make for a decent top-down approach for Russian attack helicopters loitering behind the front line, when line-of-sight isn’t available. Curious to see how these end up getting used.
That’s cute, it’s like a DIY IRIS-T!
About time for some effective anti helo weapons to take those Ka52s out of the sky.
One could probably do the same thing with AIM9X if one wanted to. Kudos to the Brits. They are out in front again!
I wonder if ground-launch reduces their range or if they have an extra booster or something? A2A range is 25km though, so as long as the ground version has > 60% of that it’ll ruin the day of the upgraded KA-52s with their 15km AT missiles.
Kudos to the skunkwork British engineers working on this.
You are awesome.
Another great example of the real time evolution of weapons & weapons systems to counter the counter system…
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Should make for a decent top-down approach for Russian attack helicopters loitering behind the front line, when line-of-sight isn’t available. Curious to see how these end up getting used.
That’s cute, it’s like a DIY IRIS-T!
About time for some effective anti helo weapons to take those Ka52s out of the sky.
One could probably do the same thing with AIM9X if one wanted to. Kudos to the Brits. They are out in front again!
I wonder if ground-launch reduces their range or if they have an extra booster or something? A2A range is 25km though, so as long as the ground version has > 60% of that it’ll ruin the day of the upgraded KA-52s with their 15km AT missiles.
Kudos to the skunkwork British engineers working on this.
You are awesome.
Another great example of the real time evolution of weapons & weapons systems to counter the counter system…