Wow, HAWK missiles? 1950’s analog technology. Someone just gave Raytheon a nice gift. Must need those Massachusetts votes.
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Hawk was superseded by the MIM-104 Patriot in US Army service by 1994. The last US user was the US Marine Corps, who used theirs until 2002 when they were replaced with the man-portable short-range FIM-92 Stinger. The missile was also produced outside the US in Western Europe, Japan and Iran.[4] The US never used the Hawk in combat, but it has been employed numerous times by other nations. Approximately 40,000 of the missiles were produced.
So, basically surplus.
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Surplus, but they will still have to be reconditioned and tested. I’m very familiar with the system. When you open it up you just see row after row of resistor banks and TTL logic circuits, and old EEPROMs.
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How’s your Ukrainian?
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About as good as my Swahili
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Zombie Idiotism:
@anon87143080 Speaking of Raytheon
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Like countless other Russian men, Ilya Bakharev thought joining the war against Ukraine was a path to redemption. Though he wasn’t recruited directly from prison, Ilya had a criminal record, and he spoke openly to his wife about his hope that going to war would keep their son from seeing him as just an ex-con. His desire to restore his reputation through military service only grew after a botched attempt to join the Kremlin-controlled mercenary group Redut — so he signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry. But Ilya’s efforts to curb his fellow soldiers’ drinking quickly made him enemies within his own unit, and according to multiple eyewitness accounts, he was brutally tortured to death within a few months of deploying to Ukraine.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/christopher-cavoli-russian-military-losses-00151718
Russian military replaced Ukraine battlefield losses ‘far faster’ than expected, general warns
"[Russia’s military has] grown back to what they were before,” Gen. Christopher Cavoli told senators.
https://www.eucom.mil/document/42803/useucom-gen-cavoli-cpshasc2024pdf
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“Let’s say that it didn’t have to be 100% perfect in order for Ukrainians perhaps to get their hands on it,”
said Grant Shapps – a man nobody would buy a used skateboard from, let alone a space laser.
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