Knowing that the dangers we’re facing are no longer evolving over decades but over months. To defend against multiple threats simultaneously. We must regrow our capabilities to protect ourselves across air, land and space, and sea. So, today the UK and our allies face a real challenge. And so, as the UK’s Defence Procurement Minister I am committed to ensuring that as the threats change so must our responses to them. Whether targeting civilian infrastructure, committing a litany of human rights abuses, or even disregarding their own duty of care to their own people. We’ve seen the deployment of new tactics – from GPS spoofing to coordinated cyber-attacks and kinetic strikes on Ukraine’s early warning systems and communications.īut, worst of all, and the ultimate reason we’re here, Russia has proved to be a nation utterly unconstrained by the rules of war or the laws of morality. We’ve witnessed the use of new technologies in combination – precision strike capabilities, hypersonic missiles, and low-cost UAVs. Russia has brought war to Europe’s doorstep and the conflict in Ukraine provides a dark mirror of the future threat environment that we need to consider. This is the key change that’s happened since the invasion. Indeed, the dangers we confront today – it’s absolutely self-evident - are no longer hypothetical. We are continuing to learn the lessons of the war in Ukraine all the time, in real time, but the centrality of full spectrum air defence is absolutely, as far as we’re concerned, undeniable.
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