It became known that was included in the set of air defense systems IRIS-T for Ukraine.

The first set of IRIS-T air defense systems transferred to Ukraine includes not one launcher, as originally planned, but four launchers, each of which carries 8 anti-aircraft guided missiles, which provides the Armed Forces with a fairly serious medium-range air defense system.

It is not possible to assess the real effectiveness of the IRIS-T air defense systems, since there is no objective information on this matter. Nevertheless, taking into account the data of the Ukrainian and German sides, the efficiency of hitting targets with these systems is 90%, however, this is only possible if target designation systems from AWACS aircraft are used.

At the same time, due to the publication by the Ukrainian military of photographs with IRIS-T air defense systems, it became known that these air defense systems were originally intended for deliveries to Egypt. However, as part of the negotiations, Egypt allowed Berlin to transfer a set of similar air defense systems to Ukraine. Now this raises a lot of questions regarding the allied relations between Cairo and Moscow.