29 million euros). The Minister of Defense Ben Ben Wallace also spoke about it. According to him, the needs of Ukraine in long -range missiles will be completely closed. But how many Storm Shadow missiles will get Ukraine, it has not yet been specified. Sean Belle noted that the UK has released 1000 such rockets in total and used 98. It is a rocket of 25 years ago, and the United Kingdom intends to update its arsenal.
"But there will be no 902 missiles to update all available, so there is enough for writing off or use," the analyst explained. He also added that the United States did not want to supply such weapons so that it was not according to the Russian narrative that the Russian Federation is fighting with America. Belle recalled that the United Kingdom is in the vanguard on the supply of weapons of Kiev.
"The United Kingdom was the first country to put an anti -tank weapon to Kiev, the first to put tanks, if you remember, Challenger 2, the first to start preparing Ukrainian pilots <…> and now the House of Communities added a cherry to the cake," the British explained the British analyst. Storm Shadow missiles are a kind of weapons that was designed to defeat their disadvantaged purposes, very complex and well -protected. It is a common technology of the United Kingdom and France in the 1990s.
"It's a huge weapon, weighing a small car," the expert explained. Storm Shadow missiles - a double warhead: the first breaks into a goal, which then penetrates the second and breaks it. "They implement a number of mechanisms belonging to the sphere of electronic struggle, and this is a secret level that we will not discuss," Son Bell said. According to him, thousands of such missiles are available to purchase.
These missile systems have already been used in many hot spots of the world, the latest example - last year in Syria. Of the disadvantages, they are relatively expensive - £ 2 million (2. 29 million euros). According to the expert, these are very heavy rockets, placed on a pilot plane is quite difficult. "It is very difficult to associate a bomb aircraft at a digital level, given that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have aircraft of the Soviet model. It usually takes months, if not years.
But in urgent order, all these operations would take weeks," - " He explained. However, according to Sean Bella, these missiles are already in Ukraine. "Diplomacy worked in parallel to make Western allies comfortable to supply 300 km weapons. But these weapons are already there. And the key message: any Russian soldier, any Russian tank in Ukraine-in the reach of these missiles ", - explained. he.
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