FrankenSAM Project

[Scott Kenny]

Air defense is one of the cogs they are exploring as part of ACE. It still sees that as an Army responsibility under a joint force (under USAF command). Easy to see why there might be some assumptions that need ironing out on either side of such an arrangement, but I haven't seen much in the way of AF interest in actually operating SAMS or the IBCS.

I suspect that the USAF interest in operating SAMs or IBCS is strictly in terms of defending their airbases. Anything else is Army mess.

 

[Jason Dykstra (Wyvern)]

So....could this be re-use of AA-10 (Vympel R-27)? The Houthi's have re-used as a SAM...and there could be reasonable stocks out there for re-use, supply from ex-Warpac states and on the arms market...

According to more recent releases, it's just the name given to the Supacat ASRAAM-armed truck we saw come out about 2 years ago. Maybe this indicated that the UK has deemed that it has enough older ASRAAMs that it needs to dispose of that it would be able to supply them in decent numbers to Ukraine. Perhaps it's a sign of things to come, maybe they'll start integrating them with aircraft or other SAM systems.