In the video, you can see the used transport and launch containers of the Franco-Italian complex, which remained after the combat work.
The operator speaks Ukrainian and claims that the missiles of the system weigh much less than the ammunition for the Soviet S-300 system.
“The missile is a bomb,” the military man said of the system.
Attention! The video contains profanity.
LIGA.net asked the Air Force Command for a comment, as there was no official announcement of SAMP-T’s arrival in Ukraine – Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat confirmed that the SAM was on combat duty.
- In June 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that SAMP-T had been put on combat duty in Ukraine. Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat did not confirm this, saying that he “knows nothing about it.”
- In December 2022, Ukraine asked France to supply the SAMP-T air defense system.
- On February 4, 2023, French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecorneuil said that France and Italy would hand over SAMP-T to Ukraine in the spring of 2023.