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D. mojavensis 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 Profile picture
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Jan 6, 2023 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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About Sea Sparrow surface-air missile adaptation to UA Buk-M1 SAM systems that Politico has reported yesterday (politico.com/news/2023/01/0…).

It's not as surprising as it may seem at first.

In fact, Raytheon (Sea Sparrow manufacturer) and Polish WZU-2 worked on this in 2007+

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As early as 2007 Wojskowe Zaklady Usbrojenia Nr 2 (WZU-2, Grudziadz, Poland) announced working on adapting Sea Sparrow RIM-7 missile to 2K12 Kub (SA-6) SAM system -- Buk predecessor. In 2012 a prototype was shown using RIM-162 ESSM missile on 2P25 Kub launcher.

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Additionally, around the same time Czech company RETIA in cooperation with European missile manufacturer MBDA adapted Aspide 2000 surface-air missile (a derivative of Sea Sparrow RIM-7E with better engine and seeker) to the same Kub 2K12 system.

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More details on the Czech 2K12 Kub modernization directly from the designer (RETIA) as well as some extra photographs:

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Here's a video showing Czech Kub + Aspide hybrid tracking some training targets:


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Finally, Ukraine is also no stranger to "deep" Kub SAM modification. For example a company called Aerotechnica has developed an upgrade package called 2K12M1-2D Kvadrat-2D which replaces "99% of electronics" with modern ones (mil.in.ua/uk/news/aerote…)



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Given that Buk is a direct descendant of Kub (-M4,below) it should be no surprise if Sea Sparrow can be similarly adapted to Buk-M1 that Ukraine operates.

It would be great, if eventually ~90 Kub systems that Ukraine is reported to have could be refurbished and adapted too.

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Key refs.:
- armyrecognition.com/defense_news_j…
- armyrecognition.com/mspo_2012_show…
- armyrecognition.com/idet_2013_news…
- researchgate.net/publication/29…
- en.topwar.ru/5504-cheshskie…
- valka.cz/attachments/35…
- uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/9А38
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Apr 24
We normally don’t comment on political statements, however in his 23 APR 2025 social media post US President Donald J. Trump made 9 (nine!) factually false or misleading statements about UA so we had to address that.

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Statement #1: misleading.
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Statement #1: misleading (cont-d).

Additionally, the USA also can *not* legally recognize the occupation of Crimea (or any other part of Ukraine for that matter).

Ref.: treaties.un.org/Pages/showDeta…Image
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Brief (and potentially incomplete) notes from a fresh interview w/ UA F-16 pilot:
- what missions F-16 and M2000 jets now perform
- their performance in UA
- RU glide bomb threat counteraction
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..and more
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- the interviewee trained in the first group [of UA pilots to train on F-16]
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My brief (and rough) notes from an interview w/ Andriy Kobzar - a (now retired, after injury) commander of a Ukrainian German-supplied PzH-2000 (). This video interview (in Ukrainian) adds details on top of the interesting text interview referenced below
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Is RU-UA war an artillery war:
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Second half of my quick notes from an interview w/ UA Air Force head of aviation Gen. Serhii Holubtsov (). For the notes on the first half of the interview see linked thread.

The second half was mostly about F-16s and a little bit about JAS 39 Gripen.
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F-16
Munitions:
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Jun 9, 2024
Quick notes from an interview w/ UA Air Force head of aviation Serhii Holubtsov (published today).

I normally don't do translations, but I see a lot of mistranslations/misinterpretations of this interview - thus this thread.

Notes of 1st half below🧵:
JDAM and other guided bomb use by UA:
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- their use is limited also by RU air defenses located on sovereign RU territory which UA was not allowed to target (presumably by donated weapons)
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Apr 3, 2024
Brief update (with geolocations) on Malovodne-Burne (Mariupol) rail line construction by RU occupational forces.

Based on geolocated media footage we confirm that in Novomykhailivka area there will be a railroad segment (of undetermined length) with 2 parallel tracks.
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Geolocation 1: video taken at Malovodne-Burne rail / hwy (T0508) intersection near Novomykhailivka.

POV ~ 47.549, 38.0566
@GeoConfirmed

Based on previous geolocations:
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Geolocation 2: Malovodne-Burne railroad / hwy (T0508) intersection near Novomykhailivka (published 20 MAR 2024)

Rough POV ~ 47.549, 38.0566
@GeoConfirmed
Based on geolocations:
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Src:


t.me/VESTIDONETSK/3…

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