Ukraine offers to recycle expiring Western missiles for free
Western partners are about to spend a fortune safely dismantling expiring air-defense missiles. Ukraine has a much cheaper, louder, and more productive alternative.
Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs just pointed out the ultimate win-win. There are warehouses full of interceptor missiles in the West slowly reaching their "best before" date. Usually, this means taxpayers have to fund a complex, boring decommissioning process.
Instead of returning them to manufacturers or paying for safe disposal, Ukraine is asking to just fire them at Russian targets. It is the ultimate zero-waste initiative.
Our new Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, is apparently making this a top priority. It makes perfect sense. A missile might be technically "expired" for peacetime Swiss or German storage standards, but it still works perfectly fine when a cruise missile is flying toward a power plant.
Paying millions to dismantle a rocket that could otherwise retire doing what it was built for is peak bureaucracy.
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