Ukraine is discussing with the United States the transfer of the Aegis missile defense system – UNIAN
In particular, this could be the latest Aegis system.
Ukraine is discussing with the United States the provision of an air defense system capable of shooting down intercontinental ballistic missiles. Ukrinform writes about this with reference to sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Ukraine does not have weapons capable of shooting down intercontinental missiles, but the Americans have them. Ukraine will turn to the United States to transfer such weapons,” the source told the agency.
According to the source, we may be talking about a specific modernization of the Patriot air defense systems already familiar to Ukrainians, or about obtaining the latest Aegis anti-missile system.
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