Ihor Taburets, the head of the Cherkasy regional military administration, said this in a Telegram post, Ukrinform reports.
“During the latest long air raid alert, two enemy missiles were shot down over the region. There are no casualties. Glory to our air defense! Death to the enemies!” Taburets said.
He also warned that temporary power outages are possible in the region.
Russian missiles were last shot down over the Cherkasy region in September near Buky, Uman district.
Ukrainian cities came under massive fire on Monday, October 10. According to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Russia fired 83 missiles at Ukraine, with 45 of them destroyed by air defense forces.
Germany is sending the first of the four newest IRIS-T air defense systems to Ukraine.
According to Ukrinform, Germany’s Ministry of Defense said this on its Twitter account.
“Germany delivers the first of four IRIS-T SLM air defense systems to Ukraine. The recent Russian missile attacks on Kyiv and other cities shows how important the air defense capability for Ukraine’s self-defense is,” the tweet reads.
IRIS-T SLM is a land-based air defense system developed by Diehl Defense with modified short-range guided missiles. It can hit aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, jet artillery, drones, anti-radar missiles and bombs.
The IRIS-T (“InfraRed Imaging System Tail/Thrust Vector-Controlled”) is a German-led program to develop a short to medium range infrared homing air-to-air missile to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder found in some NATO member countries.
n comparison to the AIM-9M Sidewinder, the IRIS-T has higher ECM-resistance and flare suppression.[9] Improvements in target discrimination allow for 5 to 8 times longer head-on firing range than the AIM-9M. It can also engage targets behind the launching aircraft, the latter made possible by the extreme close-in agility allowing turns of 60 g at a rate of 60°/s via thrust vectoring and LOAL capability.
The IRIS-T is able to intercept fast-moving and miniature targets, such as air-to-air/surface-to-air missiles and air-to-surface/surface-to-surface missiles and rockets, UAV/drones, and cruise missiles; to improve the probability of a direct hit, the missile is equipped with an active radar proximity sensor.
In addition, the IRIS-T has the unique ability, in comparison to other similar missiles such as the AIM-9X, to target and shoot down other air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles thus offering 360° defence capability. In fact, a surface launched variant of the IRIS-T, the IRIS-T SL, actually has even further enhanced capabilities capable of destroying aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, air-to-surface missiles, anti-ship missiles, anti-radar rockets and large-calibre rockets. It also has high probability of a killing shot against UAVs and other small maneuvering threats at very-short and medium-range distances.
The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) has tested a new air-to-surface capability developed by Diehl BGT Defence for the IRIS-T. A proof of concept test firing to acquire, track, and engage a target representing a small fast attack boat was conducted in Norway in September 2016, where the IRIS-T missile was launched from an RNoAF F-16AM multirole aircraft. For the air-to-surface role, the missile retains the same standard IRIS-T AAM hardware configuration, including the HE warhead and IIR guidance package, with only an updated software insertion required to deliver the additional ground attack capability. This basic air-to-ground capability provides the ability to acquire, track and engage individual ground targets like boats/ships, small buildings and vehicles.
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