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| Estonia and Finland will merge their coastal defense systems |
| 2022-08-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] Estonia and Finland intend to integrate into a single national coastal defense system. This was announced by Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti. He noted as an important fact that the range of Estonian and Finnish missiles exceeds the width of the Gulf of Finland. The integration of systems will take place after the final entry of the Finns into NATO. “This means that we will unite our missile defense and share all information with each other,” Pevkur said. He noted that the decision to allow the Gulf of Finland to be closed to Russian warships: “The Baltic Sea will become a NATO inland sea when Finland and Sweden join NATO. The situation will change." In 2021, Estonia decided to buy Israeli Blue Spear missiles. Their firing range is 290 kilometers. The range of MTO 85M missiles of the Finnish Navy is more than 100 kilometers. Pevkur praised the Finns' decision to buy American F-35 fighters. “Finnish airspace cannot be protected if Estonian airspace is not protected at the same time, and vice versa. Fighters cross the 80-kilometer Gulf of Finland in a matter of minutes,” he added. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 This ought to twist Vlad's knickers. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-08-13 11:02 |