BRITAIN is in talks to join Europe’s new air defence system, Grant Shapps has confirmed.
The UK is working with EU allies “on what a Sky Shield may look like”, the Defence Secretary said.
AFPThe Sky Shield plan could see missiles such as US Patriots, above, deployed to UK soil to protect against attacks from the likes of drones[/caption]
He also signalled a ship-building boom to boost the size of the Royal Navy.
The Sky Shield plan could see missiles such as US Patriots, Israeli Arrow-3s and German IRIS-Ts deployed to UK soil to protect against hostile projectiles, including drones.
Mr Shapps dismissed calls from MPs, including Penny Mordaunt, to buy Israel’s Iron Dome defence technology and said the Europe Sky Shield talks were “in early stages”.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz proposed the initiative after Vladimir Putin launched missiles on Ukrainian infrastructure in 2022.
Some 21 nations are currently involved, including neutral Switzerland.
Asked how he planned to spend the extra £75billion pledged for the defence budget between now and 2030, Mr Shapps told The Sun’s new World At War show: “I’ll shortly be saying more as a shipbuilding czar.”
And on whether the UK’s Armed Forces are currently large enough, he said: “We’ve taken the peace dividend too many times, and we were moving potentially from a post-war to a pre-war world.
“I think we need to do more.”
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