The NASAMs could offer Ukraine a chance to create the air defense shield over parts of the country, especially large cities. Systems like NASAMs and IRIS-T are interoperable, which means that a target detected by one can be destroyed by the other. And do we have a sense of what the Russians are up to in response to this evolution?
An issue ignored for three decades came to dominate the summit’s agenda: reparations to poor countries for climate-driven “loss and damage”. Alas, halting those coming losses did not feature much. Our correspondent speaks with a Ukrainian fighter pilot about defending the country’s airspace using mostly Soviet-era kit. And why some words sound the same across many languages.
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