The Telegraph<\/a> reported, citing sources. The issue was discussed at\u00a0talks in\u00a0London on\u00a0June 7 involving the United Kingdom, France and Germany.<\/p>\nAccording to\u00a0the newspaper, EU\u00a0countries are willing to\u00a0support the project in\u00a0order to\u00a0reduce Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0dependence on\u00a0supplies from the United States.<\/p>\n
The plan would divide responsibilities among the participants. Ukrainian plants would produce anti-ballistic interceptor missiles, while European companies would provide radars, tracking equipment and guidance systems.<\/p>\n
One source told The Telegraph that Ukraine needs radars and guidance systems from its allies to\u00a0bring the components together into a\u00a0European version of\u00a0the Patriot system\u00a0\u2014 cheaper and easier to\u00a0scale up\u00a0in\u00a0production.<\/p>\n
The Telegraph also reported that Vladimir Zelensky, during recent talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, persuaded the alliance to\u00a0coordinate the project. NATO officials later met with representatives of\u00a0relevant companies and national security advisers from alliance member states.<\/p>\n
The Financial Times has also reported on\u00a0the development effort. Denis Shtilerman, head of\u00a0Fire Point\u00a0\u2014 the company producing the Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missile\u00a0\u2014 told the newspaper that the firm carried out the first flight test last week of\u00a0the FP-7.x anti-missile interceptor for the new air defense system. He\u00a0assessed the test as\u00a0sufficiently successful.<\/p>\n
Shtilerman said serial production of\u00a0the missile could begin in\u00a0August if\u00a0Fire Point receives an\u00a0infrared seeker. The company expects the component to\u00a0be\u00a0supplied by\u00a0Germany\u2019s\u00a0Diehl Defence. Under that scenario, he\u00a0said, the missiles could be\u00a0ready for combat use in\u00a02027.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0also said the new air defense system has been named Freyja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain, France and Germany may help Kyiv build Freyja, a European air defense system designed to cut Ukraine\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[193,2108,2107,2088,2086,194,2106,195,158,66,2105],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-britain","tag-diehl-defence","tag-european-patriot-alternative","tag-fire-point","tag-fp-7-x","tag-france","tag-freyja-system","tag-germany","tag-kyiv","tag-nato","tag-ukraine-air-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}