The PS-70 radar. (Carl M Sjöstrand/the Swedish Armed Forces)
Sweden has supplied Kiev forces with a number of Saab Giraffe radars, several Ukrainian news sources revealed on April 20.
The Giraffe, designated by the Swedish military as PS-70, is a G/H-band short-range air defense radar with command and control capability.
It is still unclear how many radars of this type were supplied to Ukraine, or when exactly the transfer took place. Stockholm keeps most of its military aid to Kiev forces a secret.
The Giraffe employs a folding antenna mast that extends to a height of 13 meters when deployed and can be integrated with an Interrogated friend or foe identification capability. The base version has a range of 40 kilometers with an altitude of 10 kilometers.
The radar can provide target data to the Swedish-made RBS 70 man-portable air-defense system, which was spotted with Kiev forces for the first time earlier this year.
Despite its previous alleged neutral state, Sweden was among the first countries to supply weapons to Kiev forces after the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine last year. Stockholm provided hundreds of anti-aircraft and air-tank missiles, and is currently preparing to send howitzers, infantry fighting vehicles and main battle tanks.
In the last few months, Kiev made many calls to its allies to improve its air defenses which lost most of their original capabilities and are nearing depletion. The radars and air defense systems provided by Sweden will not likely change much due to their limited range.
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These are also nice target practise for missiles and drones look forward to them being neutralized. No mercy for the ukronazis and their helpers
Swedes suffering from stockhlm syndrome. Those little cucks are probably enjoying their abusive relationship with the US.
New Zealand Christchurch Shooter Brenton Tarrant was trained by Ukrainian Azov Nazis in Kherson
The irony is that Jacinda, Scomo and Albo sponsored the Ukrainian Azov Battalion with ADF weapons and YOUR tax $ millions..
Convicted neonazi Brenton Tarrant killed 51 innocent (incl. children) New Zealanders in the Christchurch terrorist attack in 2019 (not covered by the Western media).
He is an Australian citizen who trained with the radical nazi Azov Battalion.
If we count everything they gave ukraine plus what they already had, makes ukraine 2nd most powerful army in nato
And they still have half a million Russians in four oblasts and Crimea that they have lost since the US overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014.
can’t wait to see the S-tanks in action
It was a HUGE failure not to detonate a tactical nuclear bomb in the air, above the border of the two alco-retarded nations of Finns and Swedes in sommer of 2022, just after they started discussions about joining NATO. A reasonable force demonstration of Russia would have put the above mentioned 2 retarded nations (or their governments) on a rethinking position of arming Ucraine and joining the NATO at a minimal cost /say 1..3 tactical nukes/
With a range of 40km coupled with air defense systems that only have a range of a few kilometers, it won’t last long against an aircraft with a 150km range radar and a 120km range anti-radar missile. And the Russians will attack it first to remove the danger for helicopters and front-line aviation like the Su-25.
Sweden FFS…? That global military power and its “technology”. Now that the Natostanners are acting like their rump Ukrapper dumpster fire can only be saved with NAZI fauna aka the Kraut leopards, Polak krabs and the comical Swedenstan giraffes then obviously their obscene elephant hunt jig is up in the Ukrap jungle.
TarZaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan and then some
Western junk, soon to be scrap
When the US and nato aggressive warmongering against Russia is defeated in Ukraine, all the countries involved will feel the force of Russian sanctions. Let’s see how they like it.