The SAMP/T Mamba system. Source: MBDA Systems.
Italy is in talks with France to supply Ukraine with jointly produced air defense systems, Italian Foreign Minister said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper that was published on January 8.
“The sixth package [of military assistance to Kiev] is still at the phase of discussion, and, as has been said, there will be no sending [of weapons] before a relevant report to the parliament,” Antonio Tajani said. “We are discussing with the French some points to improve the package from the perspective of sending air defense systems, which are jointly developed by Rome and Paris.”
When asked to comment on reports that the United States have been pressuring Italy to expand weapons supplies to Ukraine and include air defense systems, Tajani said, “We are an important partner, but it wasn’t about weapons.”
The talk is about the Italian-French SAMP/T Mamba medium-range air defense system, which was demanded by Ukraine on multiple occasions after the start of the Russian special military operation.
The air defense system, which is armed with Aster-30 interceptors originally made for naval vessels, was developed by the France-based Eurosam to counter an array of airborne threats including manned and unmanned aircraft with a range up to 60 kilometers.
The system is built around a modified version of THALES’s ARABEL multifunction fire control, X band long-range radar, which can detect an aircraft from 70 kilometers and a missile from 20 kilometers.
Both Italy and French have already supplied Ukraine with air defense systems. Rome provided American-made FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs), while Paris provided Mistral MANPADs and Crotale NG short-range air defense systems.
The U.S. has been pushing its allies to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine in a bid to limit Russia’s dominance over the country’s airspace. Kiev has already received many Western-made air defense systems. However, its air defense network is still deteriorating.
They already sent that… Russia must destroy these in order to have the air domination necessary for the offensive.
I’m sure this will fool Russia into thinking Brussels is not issuing all the orders in their war against Russia.
Brussels is taking orders from London, New York and Basel, they decide nothing of their own.
Hey democratic Italy and France. Where is the media and parliament debates on doing this, say for discussing the risks of bringing Russia to war with you? Have you debated the costs, the lifes it will kill, and risks before doing this, in your values democracies, while your citizens get poorer and poorer because of these tax payer funded war donations?
Sp we won. We didn’t? WTF?
No. Unfortunately you retards spent eight years trying to bring Bandera retardation to Donbas through state terror and you failed. Better luck next time.
No I think your arse is still getting pounded by the Russian bear, scream when you had enough or I can offer you some lubricant.
Of couse they are in talks. Those romans enjoy talking. They talk too much. And in speedy manner.
Германия изменила свою позицию о поставках Киеву танков Leopard 2: на данный момент правительство не исключает возможности передачи вооружений Украине. Об этом сообщил министр экономики Германии Роберт Хабек.
Why would you give up your Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine for US wars?
Russia has better stuff and better people, and when they get the location of this system then they will destroy it along with all the rest of the war materiel being provided to the ukraine, along with whatever’s left of zelensky’s army. Just delaying the inevitable. Zelensky needs to surrender himself to the russian authorities and cause his military to do likewise.
The clowns of Natostan have been ordered by their Neocohen Pentacon masters to dump all their obsolete miltary junk onto the rump Ukrap bonfire. The scum in USSA are already orga$ming on the death porn of rearming the collapsing EUSSR aka Natostan with more third rate USSAN garbage. The good news is of course USSA is having a major problem producing even enough junk to cover its own ass let alone to sell to the cretins in BrUSsels. By the time Mother Russia is finished cleaning up the puke in rump Ukrapland there will be no more EUSSR and the landlocked, defanged rump Ukrapland will be a industrialized backwater living at the pleasure of Russia where no Natostan contract killers will ever again be tolerated.
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EU cunts never stop throwing gasoline to the fire.
What do you expect from Soros installed clowns? Reason? Wisdom? Look at who envisoned so called EU, mongrel Calergy-Coudenhove, Habsburg fart Otto von Dreck, idiot and homo Claude Monet by the order of the bankster Club of Rome. What could anyone expect from such a bunch?
European citizens can’t heat up their homes, there’s not enough supply of produce in supermarkets, fuel prices have hit the roof and yet, the EU continues to appease the Americans at the expense of their own people? It needs to be dismantled, the EU is nothing but an appendage for the US/NATO war machine.
Prices are rising, yes, but it is not so catastrophic (yet). EU and NATO need to be dismantled ASAP. These are freakish construct by talmudist/freemasonic cabal.
If the West depletes its arsenals low enough supporting Ukraine, Russia should consider a strike on NATO territory to disarm the banana republics that are cowering behind Article 5, which is meaningless drivel and can be ignored.
It would have made more sense for Italy and France to have bought Ukraine’s S-300s before they were destroyed, so they could improve their own rubbish air defenses. Ukraine had better air defenses than any European country and even the US before the war started.