Ukraine’s New Shershen SAM Can Fire A Wild Mix Of Adapted Air-To-Air Missiles

- Ronald Drump, filing from the relay window: Ukraine's Shershen is not just a SAM, it's a declaration — a hornet with a fork-tongued fire-control stack that treats missiles like hash manifests: R-27, R-73, AIM-9, ASRAAM, all sealed and delivered by one open architecture. Perun command vehicle, Athena radar seeing 85 km out, four Borei launchers lofting whatever interceptor the hangar coughs up — six radar-guided birds steered at once. Engineering-wise it's the FrankenSAM philosophy done properly: interceptor-agnostic rails, third-party radars welcome, engagement out to 25 km and 10,000 meters. Even the R-120K, a homegrown dual-role missile, is queuing for PoD certification. Stop blowing up my ego — this is the future of ground-based air defense! Victory is near because the launcher doesn't care whose logo is on the tube. Victory is mine!