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A video shared by the Ukrainian Air Force shows MiG-29 fighter jets firing HARM missiles.
The HARM missile was originally designed to destroy Soviet air defense radars.

Until recently, many considered the ability to fit the HARM missile to a MiG fighter technically impractical.
A new video that the Ukrainian Armed Forces released on Twitter earlier this week shows what many have suspected for weeks: the country has somehow managed to fit American missiles onto aging MiG fighter jets. The video depicts MiG-29 fighters firing AGM-88 missiles, also known as HARM, presumably at Russian radar targets. The setup, designed to erode Russia’s air defenses, was originally considered unlikely due to the difficulty in melding American and Ukrainian weapon systems.


“Ivan,” a Ukrainian Air Force pilot, made the video. A caption states that it was dedicated to the memory of Major Yevhen Lysenko, a fellow pilot who died in battle. There was no outward indication that the video was of anything particularly new, until sharp-eyed social media viewers realized that the missiles in the video launching off Ivan’s MiG-29 rails were actually American-made AGM-88 HARMs.

Hooking up a HARM to a MiG-29 is a something requiring  a lot of connectivity.  From what I've read, the HARM has to pick up Russian radar (any radar) signals and confirm sending a signal to the cockpit it's in range and active and then must be released of course.  Modern radars are frequency agile, usually, they send out one freq and then send another, and they can of course detect enemy aircraft and the incoming missile (usually) and shut down or change freq, usually they shut down.  The HARM then remembers the location and comes in anyway, all it needs to do it damage the radar dish or matt or whatever.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: 

Ferdinand Porsche (1875)
Despite having little formal education in engineering. Porsche showed enormous natural aptitude. After working in the automotive industry for some time, the Austrian formed his own firm and began designing vehicles on commission—one of which resulted in the original Volkswagen Beetle. His success in making Hitler's vision for a "people's car" a reality led to further commissions, and Porsche went on to design various military vehicles for the Germans.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Little Rock School Crisis (1957)
On this day in 1957, Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus ordered the National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. His actions defied the US Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which called for the racial desegregation of public schools. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded by sending federal troops to enforce integration and protect the students.

This was a two ship class followed by the South Dakota class which was marginally different, they look the same really.

The USS Washington did sink the IJN Kirishima in a night battle near Guadalcanal in 1942.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Munich Massacre (1972)
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists from the group Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village and took a number of members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage. Two of the athletes were killed during the initial assault, and nine others lost their lives in the course of a failed rescue attempt, during which a German police officer and five of the eight kidnappers were killed as well.

On this day in 1871, Nebraska opened its doors to all, including those of limited resources. 130 students enrolled for the 1871-72 academic year—20 pursuing university coursework, the rest in the preparatory school—and all classes were held in University Hall which was demolished in 1948.

📷: UNL Archives & Special Collections\\