US Air Force will test the strength of the air defense system of Ukraine

The MQ-9 Reaper attack drones of the US Air Force (Air Force) will be used for the first time in exercises in Ukraine. This was announced by the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on its Facebook page.

US drones during the Clear Sky exercise will test the strength of the air defense systems in service with the Ukrainian army. So, UAVs will try to break through the protection of the Ukrainian air defense at the western border of the country.

The corresponding agreement was reached following a meeting between US Air Force Representative in Europe Kevin O’Brien and Acting Head of the West Air Command of the Ukrainian Air Force, Major General Dmitry Karpenko, which took place in Lviv on December 1. “This is a good opportunity to learn from the vast experience of our American friends, to get some material and technical support,” Karpenko explained.

Earlier in December, it was reported that the Ukrainian military conducted exercises, where they applied the experience of the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh. The legend of the exercises was the “liberation” of the regions of Donbass not controlled by Kiev. Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have worked out the use of drones in mountainous terrain, similar to the military operations in Karabakh.

Prior to that, it became known that Ukraine had transferred Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone UAVs to Donbass, which were the basis of the air attacks of the Azerbaijani army in Karabakh. It was noted that six such drones were sent to Kramatorsk.

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