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Rheinmetall will supply Ukraine with two Skynex air-defence systems at the beginning of 2024, Germany’s
Handelsblatt
newspaper reported on 9 December 2022.
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<p>Ukraine will receive two Skynex short- and very-short-range air-defence systems by the end of 2023, Rheinmetall announced. The company included the system in a list of equipment it said it was supplying to Kyiv at the end of a press release published on 27 June announcing that the Netherlands has ordered 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks that it and Denmark are procuring for Ukraine.</p>
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Germany’s
<em>Handelsblatt</em>
newspaper reported on 9 December 2022 that Rheinmetall would supply Skynex to Ukraine, citing German government officials. The report came after Rheinmetall announced in a press release earlier the same day that it would supply an international customer with two Skynex systems at the beginning of 2024. Each system comprises four Revolver Gun Mk 3s, a CN-1 control node, and an X-TAR3D target acquisition and tracking radar.
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At that time, Rheinmetall declined to confirm to
<em>Janes</em>
that Ukraine was the customer, citing contractual reasons.
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<p>Rheinmetall valued the delivery at EUR182 million (USD199.17 million), plus approximately EUR12 million for HX trucks to be supplied with the Skynex systems.</p>
<p>The Skynex automatic gun-based system is designed to provide very-short-range air defence, for which guided missiles are ineffective, and the advanced hit efficiency and destruction (AHEAD) 35 mm programmable rounds fired by its Revolver Gun Mk 3 are less expensive than comparable guided missile-based systems and cannot be interfered with or jammed by electronic countermeasures when fired, according to Rheinmetall.</p>
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