Raytheon International (Brussels, Belgium) earlier this year unveiled a proposal to equip Polish Kub (SA-6) systems with SL-AMRAAM missiles, based on the AIM-120C-5 standard, which had already been purchased by Poland for its F-16 aircraft. The proposal is connected to a Polish Kub modernization program, conducted by Wojskowe Zaklady Uzbrojenia nr 2 (WZU-2, Grudziadz, Poland).
Raytheon has proposed that Poland replace the existing SA-6 missiles on its modernized Kub systems. Lack of funds may stymie the project, although Hungary is another potential customer for an AMRAAM-on-Kub conversion. Shown here is a standard Kub launcher and missile of the Polish Army.
Poland launched an earlier Kub modernization program in 1997. The effort resulted in an improved 1S91M2-P1 fire-control radar, replacement of vacuum tubes with solid-state circuitry and digital amplifiers, replacing the KT-53-2 day TV tracking camera and VPU-44 cathode-ray-type display of the 9Sh33M optical tracking system with a KT-1 CCD TV camera with continuous zoom developed by Przemyslowe Centrum Optyki (PCO) (Warsaw, Poland) and a liquid crystal color display, and adding the Sagem (Paris, France) IRIS 8-12 µm thermal imagery camera for day/night tracking of targets at distances of up to 40 km (in favorable conditions, the range of observation can reach 70 km).
