Ukraine just revealed it's been running a Swiss-designed Skyguard fire-control system paired with Italian Aspide missiles for nearly four years, and nobody outside Ukraine knew until this month!
Both Skyguard/Aspide and Ukraine's FrankenSAM-modified Buk launchers trace back to the same 1950s American missile, the AIM-7 Sparrow, but evolved into two completely unrelated weapons that now force Russia to solve two separate problems instead of one.
I break down the genealogy, how semi-active radar homing actually works, and why NATO's "wasteful" Cold War habit of every country building its own missile variant turned out to be a wartime advantage.
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Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes. Crimea is Ukraine.
Source: Wes O'Donnell
