Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[shavenferret]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

shavenferret said:

Canada will send 10 NASAMS systems to Ukraine in early 2025

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/canada-to-transfer-nasams-for-ukraine-in-early-2025/

Still a ways off, but since they are coming fresh from the production lines, it always takes a while.

The question now is which NASAMS will be sent, NASAM 1, 2 or 3? Since NASAM 3 just got developed 5 years ago and there not being any mention of AMRAAM-ER or AIM-9X, I suspect it's still gonna be NASAM 2 to avoid latest tech potentially falling into Russian hands.

I agree, and it seems like Ukraine never gets the best models.  But, they don't need to since fighting against soviet era technology in many cases.