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Anti-air Missiles

France soften its stance to supply SAMP/T missile system for Turkiye.

France is open to a possible sale of the Franco-Italian SAMP/T air-defence system to Turkey after years of political opposition, according to five sources familiar with the matter, paving the way for more substantive talks [...]
Europe

Ukraine destroyed eight Russian shadow fleet tankers.

Ukraine has destroyed eight Russian so-called shadow fleet tankers which were believed to be trying to supply annexed Crimea, Kyiv’s military has said. Ukraine’s sea baby kamikaze drone destroyed another Russia’s shadow oil tanker.DateJanuary 10, [...]
Europe

Cheap Ukrainian drones are beating Russia’s billion-dollar S-400, S-300 and Pantsir air defense systems.

Cheap, mass-produced Ukrainian long-range one-way attack drones are breaking through one of the most expensive air defense networks ever assembled, with a 20 to 30 percent penetration rate that is proving sufficient to systematically dismantle [...]
Europe

Ukraine’s top strike-drone maker, Fire Point, moves into ballistic missile defence.

The Ukrainian firm behind many of the long-range drone strikes that now regularly hit Russian oil refineries hundreds of miles inside its borders is moving into missile defense, signing a major deal this month to [...]