The Netherlands announced the transfer of the VERA-NG radar system to Ukraine.

On February 23, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren released a list of weapons and equipment that have been delivered and are planned to be transferred.

The delivery included a VERA-NG radar system to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense.

Air defense and passive surveillance are the most important elements of modern military and security operations.

ERA’s VERA-NG solves this problem by providing an advanced and modern passive surveillance system designed to detect, locate, identify and track air, land and sea targets.

The VERA-NG system consists of three receivers (stations) of the emitting signal, with 360-degree azimuth coverage.

There is a command post with its own station in the center that receives and processes all information from the stations.

The system’s crews transmit data on detected targets with range, azimuth, and altitude coordinates to air defense combat posts.

Specifications of the system are the following: target detection range – 400 km with an accuracy of up to 20 m, operating frequency range – from 88 MHz to 18 GHz, number of simultaneous tracking targets – up to 200, information update time – from 1 to 5 seconds. The radar can work in any weather condition.

“The system emits zero electromagnetic energy, which makes it ‘invisible’,” the ERA company states.

In total, the Dutch Ministry of Defense has placed an order for the purchase of four radars worth €150 million.

In December it became known that for protecting the airspace, Ukrainian Air Surveillance Troops use the latest 80К6КS1 Phoenix-1 radar.