On New Year’s Eve, Ukrainian fighters demonstrated a huge rate of fire of NASAMS – they barely had time to reload the anti-aircraft missile systems, shooting down enemy targets, Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said, according to UNIAN.
“Probably no one has such experience in using this air defense system: reloading the complex and destroying aerial targets during the battle. This suggests that we simply don’t have enough of them… we have missiles, but we need more missile systems,” Ihnat said.
According to the Air Force, on New Year’s Eve, Ukrainian Air Defense shot 45 enemy Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones.
On Dec. 31, 2022, Russia launched more than 20 cruise missiles over Ukraine, 12 of which were shot down, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, reported.
