The Armed Forces of Ukraine have released a video of the combat operations of the Tempest mobile air defense system of the American company V2X. Several replicas of the complex secret delivery to Ukraine for field testing.
Tempest is a short-range air defense system that operates on the fire-and-forget principle. The buggy chassis contains a radar and two AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire guided missile launchers.
These radar-guided munitions with tandem cumulative warheads were initially intended for use in air-to-ground mode: from helicopters to armored vehicles, but the reverse sequence is also allowed.
The missiles are highly accurate – the United States used them in the wars in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, as well as to kill Al-Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) leader Az-Zawahiri in Kabul in 2022.
Ukrainian Armed Forces use equipment sent to intercept drones: Tempest is capable of shooting them down from afar up to eight kilometers.
The Ukrainian operator praised the air defense system for its maneuverability, but admitted that working with it in a combat situation is scary: one FPV drone is enough to destroy the complex.
Additionally, Tempest is not suitable for the economics of the NWO. Hellfire missiles cost $150,000 – three times more expensive than Geranium, not to mention smaller drones.
