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Well, thats by far not enough. By the time they have scaled up the production, Rheinmetals air defence systems will be outdated ...

The predecessor is from the 70s and still highly effective. These systems have a renaissance because of drones

Well, I know that ... But calculate how many cities and how much of tge frontline you can protect with 400 systems with a maximum effective range of 2-2.5 km. So they will need to produce 20 years just to cover ukraine before they can export to any other country. So no, skynext is not the future

You can not imagine how happy I am, that the above #Skynex+#Skyranger systems, now successfully used by🇺🇦#Ukraine against #PutinWarCriminal, were developped by the former🇨🇭#Oerlikon eg of #Adats fame (now #Rheinmetall Air Defence) in #Zurich, #Switzerland, ie in the city I was born over 63 years ago🥰.

And what a wonderful city to have been born in.

It's a shame these systems are apparently that time-consuming to make. The front and deep rear would need tens of thousands of systems like these.

Not really. You don't need to protect fields and forests. These kinds of systems are deployed around important military and political objects

Sure, maybe tens of thousands is an exaggeration, but I'd rather have more systems available (meaning more systems could be used for other things, like point defense during operations) than having to decide which places to protect more and which to protect less (or leave entirely unprotected).

these are fantastic around fixed strategic objectives - Power Plants…etc