Recall that the United States announced a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, which, in addition to NASAMS, will also include ammunition for the HIMARS MLRS.

Well-known military expert Oleg Zhdanov spoke about the transfer to Ukraine of powerful NASAMS and IRIS-T anti-missile systems that will help protect Ukrainian cities from Russian missile attacks.

“We expect that the first NASAMS systems should come up in the coming weeks. There will be six complexes, the United States has already concluded a deal worth $ 182 million to supply us with six NASAMS complexes. And German Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed that Ukraine will receive the first complex in the near future IRIS-T. They are both anti-missile, and they will both help us in terms of the program to close our skies, ” he said .

According to Zhdanov, in general, Ukrainian defenders have learned how to shoot down Russian missiles

“As for missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine, especially with cruise missiles, today our fighter aircraft have learned to shoot down. If Calibers are launched from a long distance, for example, from the Black Sea, then we manage to raise fighter aircraft, and our pilots are quite “They are successfully fighting the Caliber. Plus, if the Caliber hit the radar screens, then we also learned how to shoot them down.”

Recall that  the United States announced a new package of military assistance to Ukraine , which, in addition to NASAMS, will also include ammunition for the HIMARS MLRS.

It has been reported. that two batteries of NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems with missiles for them, which the United States will transfer to Ukraine as part of a new military assistance package to strengthen the air defense (air defense) system,  will be able to cover a maximum of two objects .

(C)UNIAN 2022