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Speaking in Parliament on 9 March, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace revealed the MoD is considering supplying Ukraine with the Starstreak High-Velocity Missile (HVM) to bolster Ukrainian air defence ...
Ukraine's Armed Forces announced on July 23 that another batch of its soldiers were in the U.K., learning how to use possibly the best-named weapon on the battlefield – Starstreak. "The Starstreak ...
The UK is said to have sent a team of Starstreak operators to a nearby country to train Ukrainians. Russia's ambassador to the UK said British weapons supplied to Ukraine were "legitimate targets." ...
LONDON Thales UK's air defence business, based in Northern Ireland, has been awarded a £180million contract by the UK MoD for a further tranche of Starstreak High Velocity Missiles (HVM). The company ...
The U.K.'s Starstreak missile is re-entering production after more than ten years as Ukrainian forces make efficient use of portable anti-aircraft systems in their ongoing war against Russia. The ...
The Starstreak missiles follow a laser beam guidance system The missiles will prove particularly deadly for helicopters The speed of the missile gives the targets little chance of escape Ukraine has a ...
The UK supplied the Starstreak defence system to help Ukraine fight off air attacks, reportedly used for the first time against a Russian helicopter. Military experts believe footage of a Russian ...
A Starstreak high velocity missile (HVM) system is manned by a member of the British Royal Artillery during a media demonstration at Blackheath in southeast London in 2012. (Carl Court/AFP/GettyImages ...
With war raging over in Ukraine, talk about weapons systems has been increasing in intensity for a while now. Yet, most of the systems that pop up in the news are to be used for doing battle in a war ...
A Stormer HVM fires a Starstreak missile during an exercise in Canada in 2014. (Crown Copyright) The British Army has deployed self-propelled short-range air defence ...
A Starstreak high velocity missile (HVM) system is manned by members of the British Royal Artillery during a media demonstration at Blackheath in southeast London in 2012. India's Bharat Dynamics Ltd ...