Germany updated the list of defense aid transferred to Ukraine on the government website: among other things, it became known that Germany has transferred two more Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns to Ukraine, as well as 6,000 35-mm ammunition to it, and five more such systems are to be supplied additionally by the end of February.
The Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is currently one of the most effective solutions against Iranian Shahed kamikaze drones, which are used for russian terrorist attacks, as the spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuriy Ignat, said in a comment to Channel 24.
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"The Gepard has a powerful radar and an automated system that detects targets and effectively destroys them," Ignat notes. However, the nuance is that the Shahed kamikaze drones can fly on different routes, and the maximum shooting range of the Gepard is only 4 km.
Thus, the more Gepard will be in Ukraine (as well as ammunition for them), the easier and more effectively it will be possible to shoot down aerial targets of different kinds. Here it is also worth mentioning that Germany not only supplies Ukrkaine with own Gepard air defense guns, but also plans to buy 15 units of these systems from Qatar, which once purchased them to protect stadiums during the Football World Cup.
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