© AFP/Philip CoburnBrimstone missile • Royal Air Force’s Marham Airbase, Norfolk, UK
According to reports, London began shipping earlier versions of the missile to Ukraine about six months ago. While originally designed to be launched from aircraft, these projectiles are typically fired by Ukrainian troops from modified trucks. They are used to destroy enemy tanks and other military vehicles.
Each Brimstone 2 missile reportedly costs approximately £175,000 ($207,110).
It has two modes of operation: it can either hit targets by tracking a laser or select one from a pre-programmed list with the help of radar. The system can scan the battlefield and independently select the most appropriate target while sparing civilian vehicles and military equipment of secondary importance.
During his visit to Kiev at the weekend British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a new military aid package worth £50 million.
Britain has been one of the leading suppliers of weapons to Ukraine since Russia launched its offensive in late February.
Meanwhile, Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, of which the UK is a member, insisted on Monday that the military alliance has to keep up its weapons supplies to Ukraine to ensure that the conflict ends at the negotiating table as soon as possible.
Comment: Surely more weapons will do it. Good thinking...
Top Russian officials have repeatedly signaled Moscow's readiness for talks while claiming that Kiev is setting unrealistic conditions for dialogue.
The Kremlin characterizes the ongoing conflict as nothing short of a "proxy war" against the US and NATO. Moscow also insists that the West is only prolonging the conflict and risking a direct confrontation between Russia and the military bloc by providing Kiev with arms.
Reader Comments
So, send all the weapons you want, but if the lights have gone out in the *kraine tis but a matter a time that that place comes back to momma, and those entities tried to keep that place going will rue the day they made the wrong choice long time coming.
The UK is toast and the EU is as well and this will be evident soon enough, so piss you munitions away your effing losers, the time has come for justified retribution in your face individually and as a country you have shown that you have no merit whatsoever, and you and your ilk will be dismissed ruthlessly. It is already happening and I await the day when it is evident for all to sense completely.
Do you want to bet on it?
Place coin proper, but no derivative instruments out of the corrupt pathetic heartless city of london accepted....eff you UK - you have cast your lot and now you will reap what you have sown. Good riddance once and for all.