항공무장 Re: HARM을 우크라이나 전투기에 통합하는 데는 몇 달이 걸렸다

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https://breakingdefense.com/2022/09/it-took-couple-of-months-to-put-us-anti-radiation-missiles-on-ukrainian-fighters-usaf-reveals/

제임스 헤커 유럽주둔 미공군 사령관이 공군협회의 사이버 회의에서 HARM을 미그와 수호이에 통합하는 데 몇 달 (couple of month)이 걸렸다고 말했습니다. 국방부의 주장에 따르면 지난 8월에 HARM을 우크라이나로 보냈다고 하니 미국에서 실시한 사전작업을 포함해도 길어도 3, 4개월, 짧으면 두 달도 안 걸렸네요. 

물론 완전한 통합은 불가능하지만, HARM 위협으로 러시아가 레이더를 끄게만 해도 우크라이나에 이익이라고 말했습니다. 

현재까지 우크라이나군은 러시아 항공기 최소 55대(지상격파 포함하면 60대 이상)를 격추했고 대부분은 SA-10과 SA-11의 전과라고 합니다. 우크라이나도 SA-10과 SA-11을 요구했다고 할 정도네요. 개전 초 우크라이나 방공망 제압을 위한 집중적인 노력을 하지 않은 것이 핵심적인 전술적 실패라고 지적합니다. 

It took ‘couple of months’ to put US anti-radiation missiles on Ukrainian fighters, USAF reveals

Valerie Insinna

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Mario Resendez, 13th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load team chief, secures an AGM-88 high-speed anti-radiation missile before loading it onto an F-16 at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Dec. 6, 2021.  (Airman 1st Class Leon Redfern/US Air Force)

AFA 2022 — It took only a “couple of months” for defense contractors to equip the Ukrainian air force’s Soviet-era MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters with American-made AGM-88 High Speed Radiation Missiles, the head of US Air Forces in Europe said today.

“It was quite the effort,” said Gen. James Hecker during a roundtable at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space Cyber conference. “We have some early smart contractors that were able to make this happen. Now, is it as integrated as it is on an F-16? Of course not. So it doesn’t have all the capabilities that it would on an F-16.”

On the battlefield, Russia is able to thwart the use of HARM missiles by turning off its radars. But that can benefit Ukraine as well, Hecker said. “Even though you don’t get a kinetic kill … you can get local air superiority for a period of time where you can do what you need to do.”

In August, the Defense Department confirmed it had provided anti-radiation missiles to Ukraine, days after images were posted on the social media site Telegram which appeared to show fragments of an exploded AGM-88 missiles that had allegedly been used by Ukraine against Russian targets.

“We’ve included a number of anti-radiation missiles that can be fired off of Ukrainian aircraft that can have effects on Russian radars and other things,” Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, told reporters then.

At the time, a major source of discussion was if the US had assisted the Ukrainians with outfitting the HARM missiles on its Su-27 and MiG-29 aircraft or whether a new ground-based launcher had been created. Photos from the website RevengeFor — which is crowdsourcing funds for weapons for Ukraine — showed a MiG 29 outfitted with an AGM-88, with an adapter visible that allows the HARM missile to connect to the aircraft’s LAU-118 pylon, reported The War Zone on Sept. 16.

Hecker today declined to comment on which contractor had integrated the Ukrainian planes with the HARM missiles, asking with a laugh, “If you were that contractor, would you want Russia to know?”

Over the course of the war, the Ukrainians have shot down at least 55 Russian aircraft, mostly using SA-10 and SA-11 surface to air missiles, Hecker said. If losses on the ground are counted, that number rises to more than 60 warplanes.

During the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, one of Ukraine’s biggest requests was for additional SA-10 and SA-11 missiles, Hecker said. However, those weapons are Soviet-made and are not in the United States’ stockpile.

The Russian air force’s combat losses against Ukraine — a significantly smaller and less resourced force — exemplifies the threat of surface-to-air missiles, which when fielded in large quantities presents a challenge even to the most seasoned air forces.

“They’re hard to take down. They really are. They’d be hard for us to take down with fifth-generation stealth aircraft and better aviation,” he said. At the same time, Russia made key tactical failures by failing to make a “concentrated effort” to take down Ukrainian air defenses at the beginning of the conflict. “That would have been our first priority.”

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SA-10과 SA-11을 우크라이나에게 줄 수 있는 나라들이 몇 개나 될라나요? 핀란드, 그루지아, 이집트 정도?

[엽군]

동북아 어느 나라에 10/11은 아닌데, 뭐 하나 있다던데요. (읍읍)

[위종민]

불가리아나 그리스도 운용중이었네요. 체코가 운영하던 건 슬로바키아로 넘겼다가 이번 위기 때 우크라이나로 갔다고 합니다. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_missile_system#Operators_and_other_versions )

[엽군]

노오~력을 한다고 그게 될 일인가가 문제죠. ㅋㅋ.

[위종민]

안한 게 아니라 못한 것? ㅋㅋㅋ