Armament Research Services (ARES) has analyzed a video which shows a Polish PPZR Grom surface-to-air (MANPADS) missile which has reportedly been seized by Ukrainian authorities from Russian-backed separatists in Kramatorsk.

ARES, which has identified various components of the weapon as Russian-made, notes that the weapons may have actually been captured by Russian soldiers in Georgia:

Markings on the missile launch tube indicate it was produced in 2007. Interestingly, one of the few known foreign exports of the Grom was to Georgia, who are believed to have purchased 30 launchers and 100 missiles in 2007. Russian forces are known to have captured some of these, and Poland later accused Russia of planting material from this contract in Chechnya for political reasons. Whilst far from concrete evidence of supply, it is interesting that missiles from the same year as those ordered by Georgia and captured by Russian forces should turn up in the hands of pro-Russian separatists, fitted with Russian produced gripstocks. ARES will be sending an official tracing request to the Polish and Russian governments, as well as the manufacturers of the missile tube and gripstock.

Read the entire analysis here.

