IRIS-T SLM / SLS

Послужний список

Значення для конфліктів

Це єдиний запис каталогу для цієї системи. Вона стосується модулів нижче; Force Atlas кожного модуля показує, як її там застосовують.

Оператори

Ukraine: Donated by Germany from 2022; no Ukrainian production. · Germany and the eastern flank: Ordered for the Bundeswehr from 2023 as the medium-range layer of the European Sky Shield Initiative, with the first system handed over to the Luftwaffe in 2024 — the single confirmed handover the module's air-defence-production object refers to. No holdings recorded. · Estonia and the eastern flank: Contracted jointly with Latvia in 2023 through the two countries' procurement agencies; deliveries announced for the second half of the decade. A programme until the Defence Forces state fielding. · Latvia and the eastern flank: Contracted jointly with Estonia in 2023; the ministry announced the first deliveries for 2025 onward. Recorded as a programme.

Роль на полі бою

Point and area defence against cruise missiles, aircraft and drones, identified in specialist assessment as one of the two principal medium-range systems — with NASAMS — carrying Ukraine's cruise-missile defence. It sits above the cheap counter-drone belt and below Patriot and SAMP/T, and it is not the layer that engages ballistic missiles. That separation is the point: a system that performs well against one threat class buys nothing against another.

Сильні сторони

Effective as a point-defence asset against cruise missiles, and supplied by a single donor with a continuing production relationship rather than assembled from a drawdown of existing stocks.

Обмеження

Not an anti-ballistic system. Its supply is entirely external, and the constraint that applies to every donated layer applies here: the number of launchers fielded matters less than the rate at which interceptor missiles are replaced, and that rate is not published.

Задокументоване застосування в конфлікті

In documented Ukrainian service since 2022. The German Federal Government's own itemisation of military support — the only primary source that separates what has been delivered from what is planned — recorded six IRIS-T (SLM/SLS) systems delivered together with SLM and SLS missiles, against ten systems listed as planned or in execution. That list is explicitly an overview as of 17 April 2025 and states that it will not be updated further, so it establishes a floor for deliveries at that date and says nothing about what has arrived since. Higher figures reported during 2026 are attributed in media reporting to Ukrainian officials and are not published here, because no primary source was found to support them. NATO EASTERN FLANK. The same system is the medium-range layer Germany chose for itself under the European Sky Shield Initiative and that Estonia and Latvia bought jointly in 2023 — the first common Baltic air-defence purchase. The Ukrainian deliveries and the allied orders draw on one production line, which is why the module reads them together under its air-defence-production economy object. No holdings, sites or deployments are stated for any allied operator.

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