The United States and NATO countries are trying to strengthen the air defenses of the Kyiv regime.
It is well known that the old air defense systems inherited by the Ukrainian army from the Soviet Union ended its life long ago, so it often fails to destroy air targets and instead affects various civil facilities, and that happened the day before yesterday when the S -300 “system affected Soviet -made Polish locomotive and killed its civilian drivers.
While some of the models are not considered a new NATO air defense systems. For example, there is a MIM-23 Hawk system that is expected to arrive in Ukraine, which has been removed from the US military’s possession in 1994 to store in warehouses.
But NATO decided to hand these systems to the Ukrainian army. Spain is scheduled to deliver 6 systems of this type.
As for the missiles, the United States has pledged to send them to Ukraine, where its crews will be trained with the help of foreign experts. The training process will take a few months.
It is noteworthy that the US military began providing MIM-23 Hawk Air Defense systems in 1960, and was developed by 1970 to possess missiles capable of hitting air targets at a distance between 1500 and 30,000 km and at a height of 60 to 18,000 meters. The weight of the missile was 638 kg.
As for his combat head, it includes 14,000 fragments, each of which weighs a kilogram.
This system was used in some wars and regional conflicts, including the 1967 Israeli -Israeli war, where the Israelis shot down this system is a friendly plane, then it was used in the war of attrition (1967-1972), where it tried to drop the “MiG -25” fighter and failed to do so, as it was used in The Iran -Iraq war, in Chad and Kuwait..
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