Great Britain will give Ukraine portable anti-aircraft missile systems Starstreak to destroy Russian aviation. On Wednesday, March 16, reports Reuters with reference to the Minister of Defense of Great Britain Ben Wallace.
“It is extremely important that Ukraine keeps its ability to fly and fight with Russian air attacks,” the minister said and reminded that CRKK is defensive weapons.
At the moment, in Britain, we consider the training options for Ukrainian military management Starstreak, as well as the delivery of CRKK to Ukraine.
From open sources it is known that Starstreak – was adopted in the UK in 1997. This CRKK destroys air targets at an altitude of up to 5000 meters at a distance of over 6000 meters.
The combat part of the rocket consists of three kinetic tungsten sub-elements, each of which weighs 0.9 kg. It is capable of developing speed up to 3.5 moving (4200 km / h), which makes it the fastest rocket of the Land-Air Land-Air in the world.