MBDA

And we are we are within the time frame and that's the production capacity which will now come online with 600 extra Patriots and the Germans together with others Already some I don't think I think that was almost at the same time because it was a kind of a dual decision so we bought this package of of 900 Patriot Missiles just to increase the the magnitude of order and to incentivize, plus the US already realized that they will not have enough patriots at that time.

That was the reason why they gave the licensed production to German producer MBDA, which is now producing and is ramping up the production capacity.

And I guess it's an interesting case maybe that we will see in military and also military economic history of what is the impact of, on the one hand, the U.S. attack on Iran in terms of emptying much, much faster the available arsenal and the political unwillingness of the U.S. to any longer support Ukraine with PAK-3 missiles, plus the unwillingness to offer license for the most modern Patriot version, because this is also true that the version that we get here in Germany, that we produce in Germany, and we don't produce it for Germany, but we also produce it for the U.S. 50% of the production goes to the U.S. back.

This is not the most modern system.

[laughs] All right, people.

So Prime Minister Andy Burnham says that the UK will let defense firm MBDA release details on British-made parts for the Scalp missile, helping Ukraine and assemble, um, the weapons itself, man.

It follows his emotional first visit to Kyiv this week, where he met victims of Russian attacks and said that he came away more determined to do something.

Similar sort of thing, innit? We're talking about going to, um, Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle.

Ukraine's imperialist backers keep pushing the war deeper into Russia.

The Storm Shadow cruise missile, which the French call SCALP, flies more than 250 kilometers according to its manufacturer, MBDA, and has already been fired at Russian territory.

On August 24th, in Kiev on his first trip abroad as prime minister, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham authorized MBDA to declassify the technical data on the missile's British components, clearing the last obstacle to Ukraine building its own version.

Nine days before that, on the night of August 15th, Ukraine had flown some 600 drones at the Moscow region in one of the biggest air attacks it has launched in the whole war.

The war has killed, wounded, or left missing more than 2 million soldiers on both sides, according to a July estimate by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, a Washington think tank.

This is Burnham's first trip abroad as Prime Minister.

He also announced yesterday that he will allow MBDA to release classified information on British components of long-range scalp missiles so that France and Ukraine can proceed with a plan for Ukrainian assembly of the missile as soon as the end of the year.

He said, "I want the Ukrainian people to hear it directly from me that our support will not waver.

Russia should be in no doubt of our resolve.

The UK and France are sending classified technology to Kyiv to allow it to make an Anglo-French cruise missile, part of a growing trend of Western countries helping Ukraine to build the weapons it needs to fight Russia's invasion.

The UK said Monday it will allow defense firm MBDA to share with Ukraine proprietary information on the British-made parts for the long-range Anglo-French cruise missile that Downing Street said Kyiv is looking to make domestically.

The Ukrainian government didn't respond to a request for comment.

The French call the weapon SCALP, while in the UK it is known as the Storm Shadow.