Ukraine’s Best European Missile Just Shot Down Its First Russian Jet: The Ukrainian air force has two SAMP/T batteries—and needs more.

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1. >But European missile-maker MBDA needs around two years to produce a single Aster. That’s a few months longer than it takes Lockheed to produce a Patriot—and clearly too slow to save Ukraine.

   If Ukraine is given enough launchers to put them on the frontline and shoot down the aircraft firing the missiles, instead of shooting at the missiles then that suddenly becomes a different matter.

   It restricts the targets that Russia can safely target by shortening the range of their missiles by a couple of hundred miles; as they then have to start shooting that far from the border plus a safety margin to be sure that they won’t lose yet more aircraft.

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