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[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He said France would also provide a “new batch of Aster 30 missiles” to Ukraine

I don't know if the situation has changed, but at least early in the conflict, these were not successfully intercepting Russian ballistic missiles. Maybe Russia knows how to jam it or dodge it, maybe the Asters have always had some problem. That's a really serious matter, even beyond this war, for a number of European powers, as the Aster 30 is what European navies use for ballistic missile defense. If Russia knows how to get ballistic missiles past the Asters, they can sell a weapon to random country that can drop a warhead right on, say, the Charles de Gaulle from a long ways away.

I hope that Eurosam has figured out whatever was going on and adjusted, because multiple other countries are gonna need this for their navies even outside this conflict.

Maybe it already happened and just wasn't reported.

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