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Germany delivers first of four Iris-T SAM system to Ukraine

Germany has handed over the first of four promised Iris-T SLM air defense systems to Ukraine . According to SPIEGEL information, the handover took place on Tuesday near the Polish-Ukrainian border. In doing so, the federal government is keeping a promise that Chancellor Olaf Scholz ( SPD ) had already made in the Bundestag at the beginning of June . Most recently, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) promised an early delivery on Monday. The first handover was originally planned for November.

According to the federal government, the weapon is the most modern air defense system in Germany..............The Iris-T SLM air defense system consists of three vehicles: a launch pad on a military truck with space for eight missiles, a radar vehicle and a command vehicle. The anti-aircraft missiles can hit targets up to 20 kilometers high and 40 kilometers away. Their range is thus significantly greater than, for example, that of shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles such as the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles also supplied by Germany to Ukraine.

------With the first Iris-T delivery, Ukraine will receive a defense system that the Bundeswehr itself does not yet have. The first so-called fire unit was actually intended for Egypt , which commissioned several systems from Diehl Defence. Cairo now ceded a system to Ukraine. Three more Iris-T systems are to be delivered to the Ukrainian war zone next year. Exactly when is open; the anti-aircraft weapons have yet to be manufactured.


https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deuts...1-6baf379b082c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS-T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS-T#IRIS-T_SL