Storm Shadows head to Ukraine as ally commits 1,600 missiles in new aid

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1. By Ellie Cook — Security & Defense Reporter |

   The U.K. will supply Ukraine with additional long-range Storm Shadow missiles as Western countries pledge fresh military aid to Kyiv ahead of an anticipated Russian summer offensive.

   The British government said on Tuesday it would commit its largest-ever tranche of military aid to Ukraine, worth £500 million ($622 million). The package includes more than 1,600 strike and air defense missiles, as well as further deliveries of Storm Shadow air-launched precision-guided missiles, vessels and vehicles, the British defense ministry said.

   Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-storm-shadow-uk-military-aid-russia-1893223](https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-storm-shadow-uk-military-aid-russia-1893223)

2. 1600? That bridge is cooked.

3. Time to fire up some facists. NATO fuck yeah.

4. Will Germany follow the lead of the UK, France and now the US? The UK first announced this a year ago.

5. Wow that is a massive amount. Didn’t they receive only like hundred up to now ?

6. “Commits”

   In politics that means over a long unknown period of time and probably not all and maybe not ever.

7. > The British government said on Tuesday it would commit its largest-ever tranche of military aid to Ukraine, worth £500 million ($622 million). The package includes more than 1,600 strike and air defense missiles, as well as further deliveries of Storm Shadow air-launched precision-guided missiles, vessels and vehicles, the British defense ministry said.

   Storm Shadow costs £2M each, and UK probably doesn’t have 1600 of them to give, so it’s safe to say that most of this package will be something else.

8. misleading title. I’m sure a lot of the missiles are brimstones/airdefense and dozens of storm shadows

9. how does Storm Shadow compare to the German one?