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Fedaykin
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To be honest attempts to replace short to medium range triad of M163 Vulcan, MIM-72 Chaparral and MIM-23 Hawk in the US armed forces has been a shambles over the years!

Just look at the list of systems that have either failed, rejected or adopted only to be later rejected!

  • M247 Sergeant York
  • Euromissile/Hughes/Boeing MIM-115 Roland
  • MIM-146 ADATS
  • BAe Rapier
  • SLAMRAAM

Going through the list you get everything from, loss of interest, budget cuts, incompetence, bad design to “Not designed here” syndrome!