Diehl Defence corporation has signed a contract worth £2 billion for the delivery of IRIS-T air defence systems to Ukraine.

Diehl Defence Corporation has signed a contract worth $2.4 billion for the delivery of IRIS-T air defence systems to Ukraine.

It is estimated that the IRIS-T decoy, which included a motorized revolving “radar detector,” cost around $10,000 while the Russian Iskander missile that struck it ... saved a critical Ukrainian air ...

using the occasion to defend a decision from the summer to deploy American intermediate-range missiles to Germany. The system inaugurated on Wednesday marked the first of six IRIS-T SLMs to be ...

July 10, 2023: The Ukraine War proved to be a major boost in sales of the European IRIS-T SAM (Surface to Air Missile) system. Until 2022, IRIS-T found it difficult to compete against the similar and ...

The IRIS-T is a "missile system designed to counter aircraft, helicopters, drones and cruise missiles," and the delivery of the two new IRIS-T systems is part of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ...

The German military put into service on Sept. 4 its first IRIS-T medium range air defence system, which has already been supplied to war-torn Ukraine to intercept Russian rockets, drones and missiles.

One air defense system that has made a difference in the conflict has been the German-built IRIS-T medium-range infrared homing missile system. These systems have ensured that Ukraine maintains a ...

Other IRIS-T SLM users include Germany and Ukraine ... we’re enabling air forces to leverage the full potential of our missile system across platforms previously deemed as of limited ...

Diehl Defence displayed a life-size model of the IRIS-T SLX missile ... They described the SLM missile as “combat proven”, with more than 240 targets destroyed since the system was first ...

Germany has taken delivery of the first Diehl-made IRIS-T SLM medium-range, surface-to-air missile systems for domestic use ahead of additional trials before declaring the system operationally ready.