{"id":29169,"date":"2025-04-18T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29169\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:08:11","slug":"germany-reports-on-sending-air-defence-missiles-and-drones-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29169\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany reports on sending air defence missiles and drones to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 April, the German government updated the list of military aid that it has handed over to Ukraine in recent days, including air defence equipment, ammunition and drones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>European Pravda citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesregierung.de\/breg-en\/news\/military-support-ukraine-2054992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German Federal Government<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details: <\/strong>Among other things, Germany announced the transfer of 66 MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles), 4 Kinetic Defence Vehicle mobile air defence systems and 3 Zuzana 2 howitzers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine also received ammunition for Leopard 2 tanks, Gepard anti-aircraft systems and IRIS-T SLM systems; 27,000 155-mm and 1,000 122-mm rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The list also includes 70 VECTOR reconnaissance drones with spare parts, 150 HF-1 attack drones and 10 surface drones, 6 Bergepanzer 2 armoured repair and recovery vehicles with spare parts, and 4 WISENT 1 demining tanks with spare parts.<\/p>\n<p>As for other weapons, Germany transferred more than 900 RGW 90 man-portable anti-tank missile systems, G3 MK 556 assault rifles, 41 ground surveillance radars, as well as tourniquets, sleeping bags, border guard vehicles and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The updated list also shows that Germany is preparing to ship four IRIS-T short- and medium-range surface-to-air missile systems (SLM\/SLS) with missiles, Igla man-portable air defence systems, missiles for Patriot systems and reconnaissance drones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Last week, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/04\/11\/7507078\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> another military aid package for Ukraine, which will include four IRIS-T air defence systems.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The future German coalition government, which is due to take office in May, also promises to continue military and other assistance to Ukraine.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 17 April, the German government updated the list of military aid that it has handed over to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,657,771,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-29169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-war","13":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114356768626242165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}