Russian invasion of Ukraine

If Ukraine had bought weapons for defence commercially (from us or other arms manufacturers / warmongers), why couldn't they use them? Ford and GM kept supplying Nazi Germany, Argentina used French Exocet missiles in the Falklands (and some British weapons). Britain sells all sorts of nasty stuff to nasty regimes.
 
Kompany Car said:
For reference the Storm Shadow took 7 yrs from concept to first deployment and that was for 1 variant for 1 platform.

The tomahawk cruise missile took around 14 yrs.

So in terms of weapon development 2.5yrs, unless you already have well funded arms industry and existing systems to base the technology on, is no time at all.
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Interestingly - Ukraine is now manufacturing it's own version of the ATACMS missile that can be fired from the same launch platform.
It sort of slipped out, in a controlled manner over the weekend along with news of a long range jet propelled drone they dropped on the Omsk oil refinery and what looks like a cross between a drone and a cruise missile.
 
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