Denmark will donate to Ukraine a truck-mounted launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced on Monday.
, whose main role lately has been to shepherd landing craft to the Russian garrison on Snake Island, which sits astride the sea lane to Odesa.. So of course the TB-2s have plinked some of the undefended craft, too.
Turkey controls the Bosphorous Strait, the only waterway connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and thus the open ocean. Ankara is a strong backer of Ukraine’s independence—remember, the TB-2 is a Turkish product—and has not allowed the Russian navy to send in fresh ships to make good the Black Sea Fleet’s losses.
An anti-ship missile is only as good as its targeting, of course. A Harpoon needs to know where to go before it switches on its seeker. The Ukrainian navy has options. The TB-2s, of course. But also ground radars. The United States and its NATO allies also have been sharing intelligence with Ukraine. Alliance drones and manned surveillance aircraft have been flying over the Black Sea nearly non-stop since the Russians attacked on Feb. 23.sank, the U.K. Defense Ministry concluded a Russian landing in Odesa wasn’t feasible.
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