Ukraine to help down Iran’s drones: How Russia’s war rewrote the playbook
Al Jazeera
Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II has changed the nature of warfare, including today’s Middle East crisis.
Kyiv, Ukraine – No nation knows more than Ukraine about how to down Iranian-made or designed drones.
Tens of thousands of them have rained death over it since 2022, and now, Ukrainian experts will help shoot them down over Gulf nations, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Sunday.
Just days earlier, Ukrspecsystems, one of Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturers, opened a factory in the eastern English town of Mildenhall to churn out up to 1,000 unmanned aircraft a month.
Ukraine’s former top general and current ambassador to the United Kingdom, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, attended the opening, the BBC reported.
Back in 2022, when Moscow started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, some Western military analysts believed that two ex-Soviet armies would fight each other using obsolete stratagems and weapons.
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