Ukraine Unveils New Air Defense Missile to Replace Soviet Osa-AKM Stocks
The missile can hit aerial targets up to 10 kilometers away as Ukraine seeks to ease shortages of Soviet-era air defense rounds.
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Osa air defense missile stocks are running low, but Ukraine has developed the RK-19 as a replacement
At the MSPO 2026 arms exhibition in Poland, the Luch Design Bureau, part of the state conglomerate Ukroboronprom, presented the RK-19 surface-to-air missile for the Soviet-made Osa air defense systems and disclosed its specifications for the first time, Defense Express reports. The Osa-AKM forms the backbone of Ukraine's remaining Soviet Osa fleet, and it is the missiles rather than the launchers that are running out, so a Ukrainian-built interc…
At the Polish arms exhibition MSPO 2026, the KB "Luch" Ukrainian State Enterprise, which is part of the Ucroboronprom structure, showed a new anti-aircraft missile of RC-19. It was created to replace old Soviet ammunition for Osa air defence systems, which are almost exhausted.
RK-19 created for OSA-AKM complexes, which need to replace Soviet 9M33 series missiles due to the exhaustion of their stocks
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