Video shows through British combat missiles, adapted in 3 months to launch from the ground, scoring Russian drone murders

• The Air Force of Ukraine has released images of its Raven Missiles Systems Downing Russian drones.

• The system uses an air-air rocket that the UK has adjusted in four months to shoot a 6 × 6 Supacat.

• The UK says that the Raven -Raket system has a success rate of 70% of 400 assignments.

The Air Force of Ukraine released images of the VK-Mempt Raven Air defenses that stand out in at least five cases on Wednesday.

The video contains an Ukrainian air defense team that discussed their experiences with the system, and their interviews are interspersed with clips from the rocket that stimulates heaven to destroy Russian drones.

The Raven fires, which was originally the British advanced short-distance air-air rocket, also known as the AIM-132, which is mainly equipped with the Typhoon and F-35 Lightning II Fighter aircraft of the Royal Air Force.

The Ministry of Defense of the VK, however, said in 2022 that it had transformed the rocket into a version for Ukraine that could shoot a British 6 × 6 HMT600 Supacat transport vehicle. At the time, it was advertised as an important way for Ukraine to defend itself against Russian rocket attacks.

The Ashraam is particularly useful because it is infrared guided and launched on its goal, even in bad weather. Ground staff can fire and move quickly, and they do not have to maintain a facial line with their target.

British defense officials said in 2023 that their teams lasted about four months to launch the rocket land and to train Ukrainian crews to use the ravens.

In an official video published in May, Colonel Olly Todd of the UK Task Force said that the Raven “went from concept to delivery” within three months from concept to delivery “.

“They have carried out more than 400 engines that understand it with a success rate of more than 70%,” said Todd.

The suggestions are equipped with rocket attachments from dismantled British jets, such as the Bae Hawk, Sepecat Jaguar and Panavia Tornado. These are classes of fighter aircraft that have retired over the past two decades.

Inside crews use a Gamepad controller to identify goals on a screen and to activate the infrared lock-on system of the rocket.

With drones that saturated heaven over Ukraine, Raven Crews said in the Wednesday video that they largely focused on inconvenient systems, commits their Supacat with stickers from Russian Orlan, Shahed and Zala Drones to mark every kill they scored.

The launch operation of the ravens has four switches who prepare every mounted rocket and a large red button to shoot.

A Ukrainian Raven operator who speaks with the camera said that crews were generally trained, so that all members, including the driver and commander, can replace each other if necessary.

According to a statement from June by the British Ministry of Defense, Ukraine has been supplied with eight Raven systems and will receive another five.

The VK says that the AsroArom missions that were delivered to Ukraine were in the inventory, but would expire, which means that they were quickly marked for removal if they were not sent to KYIV.

Ukraine implements other anti -aircraft systems that are comparable to the ravens because they combine a hybrid mix of ammunition and launchers that were originally built for individual systems.

Well-known as 'Frankenams', they contain adapted Buk M1s from the Soviet era that can fire the American RIM-7 Marine Rocket, as well as Soviet radars those couples with the AIM-9m Sidewinder Air-Air Missile.

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