"To protect the population": France confirmed the transfer of Mamba air defense systems to Ukraine

According to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov, supplies will help to save the lives of Ukrainians from the rocket shelling of Russia. Italy and France confirmed that they were ready to put SAMP/T Mamba SAMP/T Mamba. This was announced on Friday, February 3, by French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecorton in his Twitter account. "From Guvido Krozetto [Minister of Defense of Italy] we decided to put the SAMP/T-Mamba air defense system in the spring of 2023.

This system will protect the civilian population and infrastructure from Russian attacks,"-the head of the France's defense department wrote. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov thanked the parter for the supplies that are being prepared and reported that the air defense systems would help protect the civilian population of Ukraine. "I am very grateful to my colleagues Sebastian Lecorton and Guido Trozetto, who decided to put SAMP/T SAMP/T.

This will help us save thousands of lives from Russian terrorist attacks. We will close the sky above Ukraine step by step," Reznikov wrote in his Twitter. As focus wrote earlier, the SCR includes a fire control unit on the basis of a multifunctional electronic scanning radar "Arabel", a vertical ground launcher installation installed on French trucks Renault-Kerax 8 × 8, including module of lesions The Magics operator is mounted on the Kerax truck.

The maximum speed of the Aster 30 missiles used by this system is 14 km/sec, it is able to intercept targets at a height of 50 to 20 km. The maximum range of Aster 30 is 100 km. We will remind, on February 3 in the United States declared Ukraine a new package of military assistance worth $ 2. 2 billion. The package will include anti -tank missiles for Javelin, artillery ammunition, as well as GLSDB missiles, which can affect targets at a distance of 150 km for HIMARS.