{"id":20758,"date":"2022-04-25T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=20758"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:04:00","slug":"uk-to-send-stormer-armoured-vehicles-to-help-air-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/25\/uk-to-send-stormer-armoured-vehicles-to-help-air-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to send Stormer armoured vehicles to help air defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".1twawixm6s4.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6266b9ae77811a20d37c9af0.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">The UK is giving Ukraine a &#8220;small number&#8221; of Stormer armoured vehicles equipped with launchers for Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles to bolster the country&#8217;s air defences.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1twawixm6s4.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6266b9ae77811a20d37c9af0.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the House of Commons the vehicles would offer improved &#8220;short-range anti-air capabilities both day and night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1twawixm6s4.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6266b9ae77811a20d37c9af0.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">He said the Starstreak missiles had already been deployed and used in Ukraine for the last three weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1twawixm6s4.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6266b9ae77811a20d37c9af0.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">Wallace said the UK assessed that a quarter of Russian forces committed to Ukraine were now &#8220;rendered not combat effective&#8221; as he praised Ukraine&#8217;s resistance as &#8220;an inspiration to us all&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK is giving Ukraine a &#8220;small number&#8221; of Stormer armoured vehicles equipped with launchers for Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles to bolster the country&#8217;s air defences. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the House of Commons the vehicles would offer improved &#8220;short-range anti-air capabilities both day and night&#8221;. He said the Starstreak missiles had already been deployed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,12],"tags":[11363,7119,5268,8982,644,12985,3457,5217,6093,12605,5180,6348],"class_list":["post-20758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-world-news","tag-aircraft","tag-ben-wallace","tag-british","tag-combat","tag-house-of-commons","tag-missiles","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-stormer","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-us"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}