Spain continues to commit material to Ukraine. NATO has reported that the Spanish Ministry of Defense will deliver four Hawk missile launchers to the Kiev authorities to deal with the Russian invasion.
The announcement was made by the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg. At the moment, the Spanish Ministry of Defense has not commented on the matter. “I welcome Spain’s announcement to send four Hawk missile launchers to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses,” Stoltenberg said at the press conference after the meeting of allied defense ministers in Brussels.
For his part, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Oleksii Reznikov, thanked the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, for the new material on his Twitter account.
This meeting had marked as a priority to improve Ukrainian defense systems after the recent indiscriminate bombing by Russia. With an operating ceiling of 18 km and a range of 40 km, the Hawk system is designed for the detection, identification, tracking and destruction of medium and low altitude air targets. The missile reaches a sustained velocity of Mach 2.5.