The lack of US financial support is the cause of Canada’s inability to send air defense systems to Ukraine

– International news – Tasnim News Agency According to the German “Focus” publication, despite the urgent need, the promised air defense system NASAMS from Canada to Ukraine Not delivered yet. The reason for this non-delivery is the lack of a financing plan in the United States of America.

According to the report of RBC Ukraine, Canada has not yet been able to deliver the NASAMS air defense system to Ukraine. According to “RBC Ukraine” quoting “Edmonton Journal”, the reason is the lack of financial resources from the United States, which has stopped this business.

Bill Blair, Minister of Defense of Canada, during On his trip to Edmonton this week, he said that the issue of sending NASAMS to Ukraine is at the government level. According to RBC Ukraine, Blair said: “We tried to speed up the process.” Unfortunately, Americans have faced challenges in their financing. According to him, all the people involved understand the importance of this project and feel the urgency.

NASAMS is a mobile missile system of the Norwegian Air Defense which is capable of firing 72 missiles in 12 seconds and the plane, helicopter and shoot down cruise missiles up to a radius of 40 kilometers.

This system was developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg and the American company Raytheon.

Canada last year as part of this contract with The United States agreed to purchase this system. But the joint procurement is still pending.

In January 2023, the Canadian Department of Defense transferred $406 million to the US government for the system.

However, earlier this year it was not clear It turned out that the United States of America has not yet transferred this weapon system to Canada. Therefore, it is not clear when Ukraine will receive this system. Meanwhile, Ukraine is in a very difficult situation on the front of the war with Russia, and it is constantly asking its Western allies to send more weapons. slow.

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