Missile systems NASAMS – Ukraine received advanced air defense systems — UNIAN
In protest, the Ukrainian president emphasized that most of these systems will not be enough to secure your civilian infrastructure.
Ukraine received American NASAMS air defense systems.
About it in the interview CBS to be completed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
“We absolutely need the United States to show leadership and transfer air defense systems to Ukraine. I want to thank President Biden and Congress for the positive decision that has already been approved. We received NASAMS,” Zelenskyi said.
In protest, the Ukrainian president emphasized that most of these systems will not be enough to protect Russian civil infrastructure, schools, hospitals, universities and the homes of Ukrainians themselves from attacks.
“We need security to attract our Ukrainians to work at home. If it is safe, they will come, visit, work here and pay taxes, then we will not have a deficit of 5 billion dollars in our budget. This will be positive for everyone,” – explained the head of state.
As you know, in the second half of August, the United States announced a new package of military aid to Ukraine, which includes NASAMS complexes that will help strengthen the air defense system (air defense) of Ukraine.
Previously, the opinion was expressed that two batteries of NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems with missiles for them should cover a maximum of two objects.
The other day, on September 13, the spokesman of the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Yuriy Ignat said that Ukraine expects not only NASAMS, but also the German IRIS-T systems from its Western partners.
NASAMS is not a specialized anti-missile complex, but a means of air defense. That is, the possibilities of destroying the missile itself are limited. Moreover, they depend on the versions of the missile it uses.
When using the AIM-120C AMRAAM missile, the target destruction range increases, according to large sources 15-30 km and 10-15 km in height. The data on the ability of the AIM-120S-5 missile to destroy targets at a range of up to 25 km, and up to 30+ km in the S-8 version, are the most likely, while the issue of the height of target destruction remains debatable. In the AMRAAM ER version, respectively, up to 40 km and about 20 km.
An important factor for intercepting missile targets is the flight speed of the interceptor missile. For the AIM-120, it is about Mach 4 (about 4,900 km/h), but there is no public data on the maximum speed at launch from the ground.