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🚨Britain is set to send the world’s most advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Ukraine, the Defence Secretary has announced.

Designed to destroy fighter jets and helicopters, Starstreak is the fastest short-range surface-to-air missile developed 🧵👇
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🔴Ben Wallace on Wednesday told MPs he is looking at providing the Starstreak High-Velocity Missile systems to the Ukrainians, stepping up the UK’s military assistance to Kyiv

➡️The missile uses three dart-like projectiles allowing multiple hits on the target.

It can be fired from the shoulder, from a lightweight multiple launcher or from armoured vehicles

The system relies on its immense speed to defeat aircraft manoeuvring around a battlefield.

Military officials hope the missile will help Ukraine gain control of the skies and further erode Russia’s fighter jet and helicopter fleets

🇺🇦Following requests for further help from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...

...Ben Wallace said providing Starstreak will “allow the Ukrainian forces to better defend their skies”

🇬🇧In another sign that London is stepping up the level of support it is prepared to give, he announced that Britain is about to dispatch a “small consignment” of Javelin missiles to Ukraine

➡️The US and Estonia have already been supplying Kyiv with the infrared-guided anti-tank munitions.

Ukraine has been sent a variety of arms that target tanks by the West, including Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank weapons from the Netherlands, and AT4 anti-missile launchers from Sweden

🗣️“We shall also be increasing supplies of rations, medical equipment, and other non-lethal military aid,” Ben Wallace said.

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