Netherlands to Dispatch VERA-NG Radars for Ukraine

The Netherlands’ defense ministry will start allocating funds for the purchase of VERA-NG radar systems for Ukraine.

The ministry announcedthe purchase of four radars for €150 million on June 14.

The Netherlands is also going to announce during the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group (UDCG) meeting 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.

ERA’s VERA-NG provides 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: 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 system reportedly emits zero electromagnetic energy, which makes it ‘invisible.'