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To: PIF
Modifications of Western models or even S-200 systems, which are now being actively modernized by the enemy, are possible.

Poland updated their S-200's in 2000... Also, the US is/was working to provide Ukraine with a FrankenSam system based on Patriot missiles using Ukrainian radars. Ukraine has plenty of S-300 systems but no more missiles. With this system, they could place a Patriot launcher near the front without risking a full Patriot battery.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231028092659/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/us/politics/air-defense-ukraine-frankensam.html

American defense officials and engineers are also still testing what may be the most powerful FrankenSAM yet: a Patriot missile and launching station that operates with Ukraine’s older, domestically made radar systems.

A Pentagon official said on Wednesday that a test flight of the system this month, conducted at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, successfully hit the drone it had targeted. The system is scheduled to be sent to Ukraine this winter, the official said, accompanied by donated missiles and other Patriot parts from multiple allies.


38 posted on 01/15/2024 4:20:22 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: ETCM

That would be a great upgrade


39 posted on 01/15/2024 5:08:59 PM PST by blitz128
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