European weapons instead of American: what the EU promises to equip Ukraine

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Against the backdrop of complication of relations between Ukraine and the US, Europe is ready to take on the supply of weapons to our country. And this will be done by both individual European countries and the European Union as a whole. Journalist Briefly about He found out what he could help us.

5,000 Sharhadiv Crossing missiles In addition to the previously announced loan of £ 2.2 billion, the UK Prime Minister Kir Starmer announced another £ 1.6 billion financing. This will allow Ukraine to “buy more than 5,000 anti -aircraft missiles that will be produced in Belfast, creating jobs in the British Defense Sector.”

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov explained that this project of assistance to Ukraine will allow the Armed Forces to obtain launchers and more than 5 thousand LLM missiles to destroy combat drones. And it is about LMM (Lightweight Multirole Missile) RaPid Ranger.

“LMM are high-precision interceptors (interceptors) that effectively destroy Shahd drones. They have already proven efficiency in the battles of 2022-2024, ”the minister explained.

The universal small -sized Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) multi -purpose rocket has a 13 kg starter mass, 1.3 m long and 76 mm. The peculiarity of LMM is the use of a two -channel guidance system – laser radiation and infrared on the final area of ​​guidance.

The cumulative and intrachargal combat part has a weight of 3 kg, when firing on the air target is undermined by a non-contact laser blast. A two -stage solid fuel engine provides a rocket speed of 1.5 Mach (about 2 thousand km/h) and a shooting range up to 8 km.

The United Kingdom promises 5,000 LLM missiles to destroy battle drones. Photo: mil.in.ua

Package for 20 billion: High -precision missiles and air defense systems In general, the European Union is working on a new military assistance package for Ukraine for 20 billion euros. It will include the supply of artillery ammunition, air defense systems, high -precision missiles, drones and other weapons.

High -precision missiles can be British Storm Shadow and French Scalp.

The Scalp-EG rocket is a French analogue of the British Storm Shadow rocket. In the design of the SCalp rocket, measures aimed at reducing radar visibility were applied. The reduction of the likelihood of detecting a rocket in flight is also facilitated by the fact that the entire marching area of ​​the trajectory is at a height of 100-150 m, and before the attack of the assigned object is reduced even lower-up to 50 m.

Rocket Characteristics:

• Shooting range – 250 km,
• Rocket flight speed – 1050 km/hour,
• The starting weight of the rocket (without solid fuel accelerators) – 1230 kg.

As for systems about, it can be SAMP/T. SAMP/T-MAMBA is a land anti-aircraft missile complex “Earth-air” of the average radius of action. It is designed to protect the territory from air threats, such as drones, planes, helicopters or winged missiles, as well as ballistic missiles. SAMP/T is the only European APR with antibilities.

It can destroy hostile planes at a distance of 3 to 100 kilometers and ballistic missiles at a distance of 3 to 25 kilometers, the height of the lesion – up to 25 kilometers. The advantage of SAMP/t is multichannel. One ZRC can fire up to 16 goals at a time.

Franco-Italian Mamba can compete in our air defense with American Patriot. Photo: https: itc.ua

Mamba is the equivalent of the American Patriot system. With this system, its radars and starting installations, armed with eight Aster rockets with a range of about 100 km, can be effectively resisted by a wide range of air threats.

The SAMP/T anti -aircraft missile complex consists of a radar module of detection and tracking of Arabel goals with the ability to identify “your own – alien”, as well as starting installations (from one to six in the battery), each of which contains 8 Ater 30 anti -rocket. repair.

An important advantage of SAMP/t is mobility. Starting installations can be deployed up to 10 km away from the command point, and one ZRC can track and shoot up to 16 targets at a time. At the same time, all 8 missiles aster-30, contained in one launcher, can be shot by one volley in 10 seconds.

To all SAMP/t is a completely digital complex. 20 people will be involved in its service. For comparison, Patriot quantitative personnel of the battery calculation is 90 people.

TTH SAMP/T

• The range of aircraft is 100 km.
• The range of destruction of ballistic missiles is 30-35 km.
• The height of the target destruction is up to 20 km.
• The mass of the combat part of the anti-aircraft missile is 15-20 kg.
• The main element of the SCR is Aster rocket.

TTH rocket

• The range of targets is 30 km.
• The speed of the rocket is 3 Mach (3675 km/h).
• The weight of the rocket is 310 kg.
• The length of the rocket is 4.2 m.

Source: kp.ua