BRITAIN test-fired three missiles that were designed and built for Ukraine in just seven months.
The Tigershark, SkyLance and Crossbow rockets all went from idea to production in record time as part of a “Dragons’ Den-style contest”.
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Britain has test-fired three missiles that were designed and built for Ukraine in just seven months Credit: Crown Copyright
The Tigershark is fired during the test Credit: Crown Copyright
The Tigershark was built by ex-Formula 1 engineers for the Project Brakestop challenge.
British firms were asked by defence chiefs to build subsonic missiles that can blitz targets 300 miles away with a 500lb bomb.
From 27 bidders, six got through to the final round with just three reaching the test-fire stage at the MoD Hebrides range.
They were Oxfordshire-based MGI Engineering, Dorset’s Rotron Aerospace and Anglo-French missile manufacturer MBDA that makes Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
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Armed Forces minister Louise Sandher-Jones said the UK has the ‘strength, innovation and determination to meet the challenges of modern warfare and support our allies’ Credit: Cpl Iain Curlett RAF
From 27 bidders, six got through to the final round with just three reaching the test-fire stage at the MoD Hebrides range Credit: Cpl Iain Curlett RAF
They had to cost below £400,000 each and mass produce 20 a month in weeks — for use in Ukraine.
Armed Forces minister Louise Sandher-Jones said the UK has the “strength, innovation and determination to meet the challenges of modern warfare and support our allies”.
This week a misfired Russian missile hit a Moscow oil refinery.
Videos appeared to show a shoulder-launched missile corksrewing sideways and hitting a fuel tank on Thursday.
Ukraine launched its biggest-ever drone strike on Moscow, hitting it three days in a row and damaging an oil refinery that supplies a third of the capital’s fuel.
