The Ukrainian navy has just received its first new anti-ship battery. The prototype Neptune missile system, which the Kiev State Design Bureau handed over Monday, signals a wide-reaching effort to harden the Ukrainian coast against Russian attack.
Defense Minister Andrei Taran was on hand—presumably in Kiev—to accept the Neptune system. “Thanks to the joint work of the defense ministry and state-owned enterprises, it was possible to manufacture weapons of a new generation and increase the deterrent potential and increase Ukraine's influence at sea,” Taran said.
In addition to the Neptune, the navy also is acquiring new missile-armed attack craft and oceangoing corvettes. The ships will help to extend sensor coverage into the Black Sea and the adjacent Sea of Azov. But the shore-based anti-ship batteries could be the real killers in the event the Russia Black Sea fleet launches another attack on Ukraine.
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