Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has signed an agreement with German defense company Diehl Defence, the manufacturer of the IRIS-T air defense system, to triple the supply of these systems and their missiles. — Ukrinform.
The IRIS-T is a Fox-2. The primary deployment mode is “strap it to a fighter and kill another fighter with it”. Ground launch is, afaik, a secondary capability, but it’s happy to kill Russian planes that way too.
those missiles are almost certainly intended for ground launch.
The IRIS-T is a Fox-2. The primary deployment mode is “strap it to a fighter and kill another fighter with it”. Ground launch is, afaik, a secondary capability, but it’s happy to kill Russian planes that way too.