Germany announces delivery of IRIS-T air defense system to Ukraine
Hsmilitarycom: Reporting from avia.pro Ukraine will receive the IRIS-T air defense system from Germany. Air defense systems of this type are able to reach targets exceeding 40 kilometers.
Allegedly, the Germans officially announced that it would deliver the IRIS-T air defense system to the Ukrainian armed forces.
To date, such air defense systems are capable of destroying fighter jets and helicopters. including drones, at a distance of up to 40 kilometers.
Perhaps we will talk a kind of Buk air defense system, but equipped with a more advanced radar station and capable of reaching targets widely, it can be integrated with other NATO air defense systems.
According to some experts say regarding the supply of the IRIS-T SLM version, which is capable of attacking long distances, including using passive radar equipment.
"Germany will supply Ukraine with the IRIS-T air defense system," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said after calls from Kyiv and German opposition parties to increase supplies of heavy weapons. Scholz said Germany has "continued to deliver since the inception of the NMD," designating more than 15 million rounds of ammunition, 100,000 grenades and more than 5,000 anti-tank mines were sent to Ukraine since Russia launched a special operation. "Recently, the government decided that we would provide the most advanced air defense system that Germany has in the form of IRIS-T," Scholz told lawmakers in the Bundestag. A security source told Reuters last month that Germany was considering supplying Ukraine with the IRIS-T SLM anti-aircraft missile system.
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