{"id":693253,"date":"2026-01-13T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693253\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:49:11","slug":"project-nightfall-to-test-fire-deep-strike-capabilities-for-ukraine-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693253\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Nightfall to test fire deep-strike capabilities for Ukraine by 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has announced plans to develop a long-range ballistic missile that will help bolster Ukraine\u2019s firepower against Russia. Named Project Nightfall, the ballistic missile will be designed with a range of up to 500km, with a 200kg explosive warhead, according to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). At present,\u00a0Ukraine is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shephardmedia.com\/news\/landwarfareintl\/us-provided-atacms-missiles-given-green-light-for-use-inside-russian-territory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fielding the US-supplied Army Tactical Missiles System (ATACMS<\/a>), which has a range of up to 300km. <\/p>\n<p>With an expectation for chosen industry partners to produce 10 systems a month, the UK will award three \u00a39 million (US$12 million) development contracts to design, develop and deliver the first three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK has announced plans to develop a long-range ballistic missile that will help bolster Ukraine\u2019s firepower against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[209338,209339,2000,299,209337,209336,209335,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-693253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-deep-precision-strike-missile","9":"tag-deep-strike-missile","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-owe","13":"tag-project-brakestop","14":"tag-project-nightfall","15":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115888112481289745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693253","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=693253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}