Netherlands to hand over VERA-NG radar to Ukraine

The Netherlands allocates funds for the purchase of VERA-NG radar systems for Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands announces the purchase of four radars for €150 million.

This is how the Netherlands contributes to Ukraine’s integrated approach to air defense.

The Netherlands are also going to announce during the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group (UDCG) the allocation of €40 million for the purchase of air defense equipment within the framework of a multilateral partnership. This equipment will be delivered to Ukraine in the near future.

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, which 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.

As previously reported, the German company Hensoldt will supply Ukraine with TRML-4D air defense radars for IRIS-T SLM air defense systems.