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An agreement has been signed, but I don't think anything substantive has happened yet. The Polish Government han't decided on the tank destroyer programme yet. Brimstone would appear to be in a strong position. I suspect the Poles will be looking at that programme with greater urgency now that Russia has stepped up the threat and rhetoric.This is a reasonable point. All Western Allies will want to provide is a coastal defence system. Killing a ship on the horizon is as far as they will want to go. Knocking out the Russian Black Sea Fleet off Sevastapol is probably seen as escalatory, no matter how desirable it might be. Firing Harpoon without mid course updates won't really be a problem at all. All that is required is to keep Russian vessels out of bombardment range, stop an amphibious landing and prevent Russian minesweepers clearing swept channels. 25 mile range would be fine for that. That would still have an important strategic role as it would allow the Ukrainian's to free up forces in the Odessa region to move forward to Kherson and beyond. The threat of such a system would be sufficient to curtail Russian activity.A mobile system would also be useful to move with the troops to prevent any Russian attempt (however unlikely) to flank them with a landing, or to bombard, particularly if the Ukrainian's can get over the Dnipro. The ideal weapon for this wouldn't be Harpoon, but the Sea Skua truck mounted variant...or...truck or tripod mounted Brimstone/Sea Spear. It''s what the Swedes use Hellfire for in their littorals. Mind you...the temptation to get Brimstone over there for surface launch for other purposes must be pretty strong...
An agreement has been signed, but I don't think anything substantive has happened yet. The Polish Government han't decided on the tank destroyer programme yet. Brimstone would appear to be in a strong position. I suspect the Poles will be looking at that programme with greater urgency now that Russia has stepped up the threat and rhetoric.
This is a reasonable point. All Western Allies will want to provide is a coastal defence system. Killing a ship on the horizon is as far as they will want to go. Knocking out the Russian Black Sea Fleet off Sevastapol is probably seen as escalatory, no matter how desirable it might be. Firing Harpoon without mid course updates won't really be a problem at all. All that is required is to keep Russian vessels out of bombardment range, stop an amphibious landing and prevent Russian minesweepers clearing swept channels. 25 mile range would be fine for that. That would still have an important strategic role as it would allow the Ukrainian's to free up forces in the Odessa region to move forward to Kherson and beyond. The threat of such a system would be sufficient to curtail Russian activity.
A mobile system would also be useful to move with the troops to prevent any Russian attempt (however unlikely) to flank them with a landing, or to bombard, particularly if the Ukrainian's can get over the Dnipro. The ideal weapon for this wouldn't be Harpoon, but the Sea Skua truck mounted variant...or...truck or tripod mounted Brimstone/Sea Spear. It''s what the Swedes use Hellfire for in their littorals. Mind you...the temptation to get Brimstone over there for surface launch for other purposes must be pretty strong...
