Ukraine hails French gift of radar as 'cherry on the cake'

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

LIMOURS, France (AP) — Ukraine’s defense minister said Wednesday that Ukrainian lives will be saved by a sophisticated air-defense radar that France is supplying and which is powerful enough to spot incoming missiles and exploding drones in the skies over all of Ukraine’s capital and its surrounding region.

The minister, Oleksii Reznikov, was so enthusiastic about what he called Ukraine’s new “electronic eyes” that he quickly coined a nickname for the Ground Master 200 radar — the “Grand Master.”

Speaking through an interpreter at a handover ceremony for the radar with his French counterpart, Reznikov described the French-made GM200 as a “very effective” improvement for Ukraine’s network of about 300 different types of air-defense radars.

Thales, the manufacturer, says the radar detects and tracks rockets, artillery and mortar shells, missiles, aircraft, drones and other threats.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-government-business-e38d0631cc5abadcf3a214366de679e2

[oldsoftie]

1. Good. More time to shoot them down.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. As Ukraine receives more and more sophisticated western weapons systems,

more and more Russian weapons will be destroyed and more Russian soldiers will die.

Putin badly miscalculated the western response to his illegal invasion of Ukraine and has shown the world just how weak the Russian military really is and just how much better western weapons tech. is.

[Javaman]

3. It still amazes me that Putin invaded when he did

Long after the orange asshole was out.

One would think that Putin would have invaded during TFGs reign of terror, he would have gotten a free pass

Just goes to show that 1) Putin isn’t as smart as he thinks he is and 2) he really has no idea about how the US government works

[Bayard]

5. He thought TFG was going to, "win," again

[EX500rider]

7. I doubt that was it

Biden took office Jan 2021
Russians invade Ukr Feb 2022

[niyad]

4. Slava Ukraini! Thank you for the update.

[republianmushroom]

6. like it