Originally Posted by
rattman
Considering the sparrow was copied and created as the a R-27, seems more likely to me that it would be used on ukrainian aircraft. Or the most likely used on the italian Aspide systems which was domestic sparrow
But that said with time, brains, knowledge and money. Who knows what could be a worked out between ukrainian and western engineers
Most of the problems were solved 15 years ago. Both the Poles and Czechs did modified SA-6 systems that could fire Sparrow based missiles. SA-11 and SA-6 are very closely related in basic mode of operation.