Weapon

The extreme massive missile strikes by the Russian Federation on Kyiv, which claimed the lives of more than five dozen people in Kyiv, showed that Ukraine has exhausted its stock of PAC-3 interceptor missiles — the only means against ballistic missiles. Despite the presence of contracted PAC-3s, their transfer will not take place before 2027, and the “allies” are openly ignoring requests from the Ukrainian authorities to give up their place in the queue and provide missiles from their stocks. This once again proves that Ukraine needs to develop its own ways of protecting citizens from Iskanders. And such weapons are already being created, and what’s more, they are becoming part of pan-European security. We tell you how the Freyja pan-European ballistic shield project works, why the Ukrainian FP-7.x missile is at its heart, and most importantly, when it can start shooting down Russian ballistic missiles.

Ukraine already has the technology to produce batteries for 10,000 combat drones per day. But it turns out that scaling up production is not being held back by a shortage of engineers or equipment. The main problem is the current taxation system, which often makes it more expensive for Ukrainian manufacturers to produce batteries domestically than to import them ready-made from China.