FrankenSAM Worked So Well in Ukraine, US Wants it for Base Defense

Chalk this one up to another example of how the Ukraine War is changing US defense policy.

One of the first official photos to show a Soviet-era ground-based air defense system upgraded with Western surface-to-air missiles under the FrankenSAM program. Shown here, a Buk-M1 system — NATO designation SA-11 Gadfly — is said to have been adapted to fire the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile. Courtesy Ukrainian Ministry of Defense

One thing that Ukraine al…