Combating marine targets in marginal seas - Blue Spear in Estonia
With the end of the Cold War, many countries around the Baltic Sea disbanded their coastal defence squadrons and scrapped their missiles. Not so the navy of the Russian Federation, which has continuously developed the weapon systems of its Baltic Fleet. Now it looks like this resource-saving method of combating sea targets in marginal seas is experiencing a renaissance: at the beginning of October, the Estonian Defence Investment Centre announced that it had signed a contract with Proteus Advanced Systems to purchase Blue Spear sea target missiles with a range of 300 kilometres for Estonian national defence. Good reasons - simple, practical, Baltic. The commander of the Estonian Navy, Commodore Jüri Saska, described the purchase...
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