Posted on 01/05/2016 9:58:43 PM PST by Perseverando
The missile that they are connecting a battery to in the video is an air-to-air missile. This is a Russian copy of the AIM-9 Sidewinder known as the AA-2 Atoll (K-13). Plenty of these missiles were captured when they overran Syrian air force bases and storage depots. It looks likely that they may attempt to field these converted air-to-air missiles as surface to air missiles?
The US used to have a SAM system based on the Sidewinder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-72_Chaparral
You can see captured AA-2 Atoll air-to-air missiles at 3:08 in the following ISIS video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJCtIdfXDKs
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