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Ukraine Situation Report: Downed Kinzhal Warhead Recovered In Kyiv
The intact warhead, found after being shot down during a deadly Russian missile attack on Jan. 2, could offer intel about the Kinzhal.

krainian sappers have been very busy during this conflict and on Friday found themselves working to disarm the warhead of a Kh-47 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile. It was one of 10 that were claimed to have been shot down over Kyiv on January 2nd.

The Mobile Rescue Center’s explosive ordnance disposal team (DSNC) from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) worked in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district to neutralize the warhead, the service said. It published photos showing the excavation of a huge crater and its bomb disposal team carefully removing the large warhead.

DSNC downplayed the challenges of removing the munition.

“Dealing with various types of ammunition, missiles, and improvised explosive devices is a routine task for the DSNС engineers, who are doing it for the safety of the Ukrainian people,” DSNC stated.

Regardless of the DSNC's nonchalance, finding an intact Kinzhal warhead represents yet another opportunity for foreign material exploitation (FME) of Russian hardware. It will almost certainly be taken apart and examined for insights into its capabilities, manufacturing processes and sourcing, as well as clues on how to improve efforts to defeat it. Much of the data discovered will likely be shared with the U.S. and allies as well, if those countries are not leading the effort already.

The Kinzhal, or “Dagger” missile, has a 480 kilogram (about 1,100 pound) high-explosive warhead and was designed to be launched from MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors. The War Zone was the first outlet to identify it as a modified Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile adapted for air-launch. The MiG-31's ability to reach high-speed and high-altitude prior to release gives Kinzhal a major boost in range and speed over the ground-launched Iskander. It also can modify its trajectory outside of a traditional ballistic arc. This and its hypersonic (or near hypersonic, depending on the flight profile) terminal velocity make it challenging to intercept.

The Kinzhal was part of a massive and deadly barrage fired by Russia. As we reported, in addition to the 10 Kinzhals, the latest wave also consisted of 70 air-launched cruise missiles, including Kh-101s, and three ship- or submarine-launched Kalibr cruise missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force said that its air defenses destroyed all the Kinzhals and Kalibrs as well as 59 of the subsonic air-launched cruise missiles.

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Ukraine special forces launch daring raid inside Russia
Operatives from Ukraine’s military intelligence agency launched a daring cross-border raid into Russia, it was claimed on Friday.

They were said to have inflicted an undisclosed number of losses on Russian forces in the frontier region of Belgorod, according to a post by Ukraine’s military intelligence agency on Telegram.

Video footage, shot from a helmet camera, shows Ukrainian troops mining a road in the Grayvoron district that was said to have been inspected by Russian commanders because of poor conditions in the area.

At one point, an exchange of gunfire can be seen as Kyiv’s troops move through a heavily-wooded area.

There have been several cross-border incursions into Russia since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion.

The most notable was a raid by a Kyiv-backed Russian opposition group, which involved Western armoured vehicles, in May last year.

Ukraine launch daring raid in Russian border region

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Leading chess site bans Russian Grandmaster over visits to occupied Ukraine
Online chess portal Chess.com has banned Russian Grandmaster Denis Khismatullin after he visited Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, the player said in a statement on Thursday.

Khismatullin’s ban comes in the wake of Polish number one Jan-Krzysztof Duda refusing to shake his hand before their first-round match at last month’s World Rapid Chess Championship in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Since then, Khismatullin’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine has come under increased scrutiny.

Following the incident in Samarkand, “a heated debate began on social media, where facts emerged that I … had been on a number of humanitarian missions to the special military operation zone,” Khismatullin explained.

While Khismatullin said that he disagreed with Duda’s actions, he defended “his right to act this way, expressing disagreement with my position” and called on the media not to insult the Polish Grandmaster.

Chess.com confirmed that it had banned Khismatullin “from prize events and social activity on Chess.com,” in a decision that it described as “consistent with our policies and prior actions regarding players who support the war.”

The world of chess has been rocked by scandals since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. Chess.com was banned in Russia in April 2022 after the platform condemned the war, while Russian and Belarusian players participating in International Chess Federation competitions must compete under a neutral flag.

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"Being Ukrainian is crime" - Russians plan ethnic cleansing in Ukraine's occupied territories
The Russians are actively changing the ethnic composition of the population in the occupied Ukrainian territories. As reported by the Mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, the process has intensified in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

“At first, they impoverished the residents. Now, through the occupational employment center, they offer the unemployed to work in Russia. Instead, they bring ‘tourists’ from the Russian Federation,” wrote Fedorov.

Fifty percent of Melitopol’s population is already non-local. Before the full-scale invasion, the city had a population of 150,000 people. Over the two years of occupation, about 90,000 have left for other cities in Ukraine and abroad, said Fedorov.

“In Melitopol, only 60,000 local residents remain, but approximately the same number has arrived from the hostile country,” added the mayor.

The Russians seek to expedite the integration of the temporarily occupied territories in the south and east of Ukraine into a unified political and legal system within Russia, according to the National Resistance Center (NRC).

“However, at present, occupiers are facing significant challenges in recruiting a qualified workforce due to the lack of the necessary number of collaborators,” emphasized the NRC.

Meanwhile, from Ukrainians who have not left the occupied territories, Russians demand testimony against Ukraine. Occupiers claim to be gathering evidence of crimes committed by Kyiv and promise to provide ‘assistance’ in exchange for obtaining such information,” reported the NRC.

“Russia is synonymous with cynicism. On February 24, 2022, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin declared war. Hundreds of thousands of people killed, hundreds of thousands of buildings destroyed, and millions of refugees – Russia now tries to shift the blame onto its victims. Yes, on the temporarily occupied territories in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the occupation administration promises to assist those ‘affected by Ukrainian aggression,'” says the NRC.

The sole condition for receiving funds is to testify against Ukraine, which would serve as undoubtedly fake evidence of Russians’ propaganda claim that Ukraine allegedly attacked the region and is shelling its own civilian population, explained the NRC.

“In other words, on the territory recognized by the entire world as Ukraine’s, Russians speak of ‘Ukrainian aggression,'” states the NRC.

Also, Russia continues to suppress resistance among the Ukrainian population and prepares for repression. Occupiers have created a database of over 100,000 residents of the temporarily occupied territories whom they suspect of ‘disloyalty.’

The database is managed by GRU and FSB operatives with the support of local occupation administrations. Currently, it contains information on over 100,000 residents. In the future, occupiers will have access to it at checkpoints.

“In essence, Russia turns the captured lands into an open-air prison where being Ukrainian is a crime. This is a deliberate policy of the Kremlin, which seeks to eradicate us on our native land,” concluded the NRC.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 06:46 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Er staat nog wat achtergrond informatie in het artikel. Met een beetje geluk zal deze raket belangrijke informatie blootgeven. Waar Oekra�ne en het westen gebruik van kunnen maken. Al is de Kinzhal tot nu toe niet echt indrukwekkend te noemen natuurlijk. En het gaat om de kop. Niet om de thrusters enzo helaas. Dus geen idee wat het ons zou kunnen leren.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 08:02 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 06:57 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 5 januari 2024 19:03 schreef slashdotter3 het volgende:

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Hoe kan het dat Amerika driekwart jaar achter loopt op de training van Ukrainers op de Europeanen? 🤔

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 14:13 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 13:59 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 13:34 schreef slashdotter3 het volgende:
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Russia Got 7,500-Pound Rockets From North Korea - And promptly Blew Up A Pair Of Ukraine Supply Bases

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 14:18 schreef StateOfMind het volgende:

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Zou toch zijn als Geranimov binnenkort een tuintje met geraniums op zijn buik heeft

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Rusland heeft een nieuwe tactiek gekozen om Oekra�ne zo hard mogelijk te raken en de geest te breken

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 10:36 schreef byah het volgende:

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Nu nog een paar van die NK raketten onderscheppen, die hebben inmiddels ook een methode om hun raketprogramma live te testen en te verbeteren

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 06:57 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 15:16 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het valt me op dat ik w��r gelijk had toen ik vorig jaar zei dat het een proxy oorlog van Iran en Noord-zkorea tegen het westen was. Die vechten door tot de laatste Rus.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 18:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 13:59 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 18:41 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Omdat Poetin iets doet tegen regenboogzebrapaden.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 18:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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IEDEREEN heeft daar last van. Kijk je nooit op de FP of zo?

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 18:40 schreef LXIV het volgende:

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Waarom zou je als Nepalees in hemelsnaam je leven gaan wagen in deze oorlog??

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 18:40 schreef LXIV het volgende:

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Waarom zou je als Nepalees in hemelsnaam je leven gaan wagen in deze oorlog??

Reports: Nepal’s Gorkhas Looking to Join Russia’s Wagner Group | Vantage with Palki Sharma

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 14:37 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Redelijk zacht mannetje volgens velen. Denk dat ie het zelf ook niet zou willen, Poetin mag 'm niet. Die man werd gewoon vanaf boven bestuurd. En er komt weer een andere voor in de plaats.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 19:10 schreef BlaZ het volgende:

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Geld, Russische nationaliteit.

Eerder waren er ook al berichten dat Nepalezen in dienst traden bij de Wagner groep.

Reports: Nepal’s Gorkhas Looking to Join Russia’s Wagner Group | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Dan zullen een hoop van die lui ook wel overgestapt zijn naar het Russische leger of een ander priv� leger.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 18:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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IEDEREEN heeft daar last van. Kijk je nooit op de FP of zo?

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 19:17 schreef LXIV het volgende:

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Die Ghurka’s zijn wel toffe gasten. Ook kwam ze een keer tegen en toen ze hoorden dat ik me niet 100% ok voelde deden ze echt alle moeite om voor j wat aspirine te vinden. Heel beleefd en vriendelijk. Als je aan hun kant staat tenminste.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 19:17 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Poetin mag hem juist wel, anders was die allang weggestuurd

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 21:03 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Het plan was ook om hem weg te werken maar het is niet gelukt.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 14:36 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
Da's aardig wat. Patriot moet lijkt me eerst ook nog leren hoe die te onderscheppen.

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Ukraine’s Patriot Defenses at Work: Shuddering Booms and Bursts of Light

The American-provided air-defense systems have helped Ukraine defend itself against Russian assaults, but Washington has warned that it will not be able to keep them supplied for much longer.

The first warning was a blip, a small anomaly picked up by radar scanning the skies over Ukraine. Within seconds, it became clear that the blip was a Russian ballistic missile streaking in Kyiv’s direction at several times the speed of sound.

It was just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 11, and there was no time to sound air-raid alarms in the city. While millions of civilians slept, Ukrainian forces fired off several American-supplied Patriot missiles as the deadly battle in the sky commenced.

Missile-on-missile battles like this play out in a matter of minutes, said a Ukrainian major, Volodymyr, the commander of a Patriot air-defense battery who insisted that only his first name be used because of the sensitivity of his unit’s operations.

From a mobile control room near Kyiv, his team tracked the salvo of incoming Russian missiles as the Patriot’s algorithms calculated their speed, altitude and intended course. With shuddering booms and bursts of light, its interceptor missiles knocked down one Russian missile after another.

“Given that the Patriot is one of the few systems that can effectively shoot down ballistic missiles, and ballistic missiles cause the most casualties, I think the number of lives saved during the war is in the thousands,” Major Volodymyr said.

That night was a success, but more recent missile barrages have done more damage as Russia steps up its assaults, searching for new combinations of weapons and trajectories to evade Ukrainian defenses. Those attacks have underscored even more acutely Ukraine’s urgent need for air defense.

On Dec. 29, Russia fired more than 120 missiles at cities across Ukraine, killing at least 44 people, including 30 in Kyiv, the capital. On New Year’s Eve, Ukraine’s forces said they had shot down 87 of 90 drones aimed at targets around the country. And on Tuesday, according to the Ukrainian military, Russia fired at least 99 missiles and 35 drones at Kyiv and other cities, killing at least five people and injuring dozens.

In aerial assaults in just that five-day span, United Nations observers documented 90 civilian deaths, including two children, and 421 civilian injuries. And President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Tuesday that Russia had fired more than 500 missiles and drones at targets across the country in that time.

“There is no reason to believe that the enemy will stop here,” Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s top commander, said on social media after Tuesday’s attack. “Therefore, we need more systems and munitions for them.”

But White House and Pentagon officials have warned that the United States will soon be unable to keep Ukraine’s Patriot batteries supplied with interceptor missiles, which can cost $2 million to $4 million apiece.

Since the start of the war in February 2022, Russia has directed more than 3,800 drones and 7,400 missiles at Ukrainian towns and cities. At the same time, Ukraine has become a testing ground for an array of air-defense systems, according to the Ukrainian military.

They range in sophistication from truck-mounted Stingers and short-range antiaircraft guns, like the German-made Gepards, to complex systems with longer ranges, like the French-designed SAMP/T, which can hit a target 60 miles away. There is also the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or NASAMS, which is jointly produced by the United States and Norway.

Only the Patriots are designed to counter ballistic missiles, and from the moment the first Patriot battery entered the combat space, they reshaped the battle for the skies. But surface-to-air missiles, including Patriot missiles, are not perfect and have been known to misfire and fail.

Major Volodymyr, 32, was manning a Soviet-era S-300 system when Russia launched its invasion in 2022. Yet while Ukrainian air-defense teams managed to keep Russian fighter jets from gaining dominance in the air and put up an agile defense against cruise missiles, they had nothing designed to shoot down ballistic missiles.

As Russian strikes ravaged critical infrastructure across Ukraine, officials contemplated evacuating Kyiv that November, and the United States Congress approved the first Patriot battery for Ukraine a month later.

Major Volodymyr was part of a team dispatched to Fort Sill, a former frontier cavalry post in southwestern Oklahoma, for a 10-week course on how to operate and maintain the system.

“We quickly found a common language with the Americans,” he said in a recent interview. “We are constantly in touch with them. If something happens, they worry, write, congratulate us.”

After two further weeks of training in Poland, he traveled to Ukraine with the first Patriot system. Within days, his team was put to the test in combat.

On May 4, Russian forces fired a hypersonic missile at Kyiv. And although President Vladimir V. Putin had deemed the weapon “unbeatable,” a Patriot interceptor missile shot it down.

“It was quite unexpected,” Major Volodymyr said. “We had just arrived from training and did not fully understand what exactly we had destroyed.”

“Later, when we found out, our confidence in the equipment that our partners provided us grew,” he said.
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In May and June, during some of the most complex attacks involving drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles, Ukraine’s two Patriot batteries shot down all 34 ballistic missiles that Russia had fired at Kyiv, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based research organization.

“There were days when the guys barely had time to reload the launchers,” Major Volodymyr said.

Just as important is the role the Patriots have played in defending against sophisticated saturation bombardments. Those assaults use a combination of land, sea, and air-launch platforms to send missiles and drones streaming into Ukraine along varied flight paths, descending along different trajectories with coordinated impact times intended to overwhelm Ukraine’s defenses.

In just one such recent bombardment, Russia sent missiles flying past Kyiv only to have them circle back to attack.

Russian forces also use decoys and program missiles to change course during their flight to confuse air-defense crews.

But the Patriot’s powerful radar has a range of over 93 miles and can track up to 100 targets at once, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. Its radar also provides missile guidance data for multiple interceptor missiles, according to the report, and is resistant to electronic jamming.

Over the past year, Ukraine has created “a unified system of interaction” that allows air-defense teams using different systems to use information collected by the Patriot crews and other sophisticated radar arrays, said Lt. Col. Liubov Kynal, a spokeswoman for Ukraine’s central air-command wing.

“We all work as one organism,” she said.

The truck-mounted command center — which calculates trajectories for the interceptors, controls the launching sequence and allows soldiers to communicate with other air-defense units — is the only manned part of the system.

“Of course, we are constantly moving the system, constantly changing locations so that the enemy does not know where we are,” Major Volodymyr said.

The battery’s other major parts, including power stations, missile launches and radar arrays, are mobile and move frequently to avoid detection.

“We have a shift constantly on the equipment and ready for immediate work,” the major said.

While a Patriot battery requires a minimum of 70 trained soldiers to run and maintain, only two or three soldiers are needed in the control station to operate it in combat.

“When the alarm goes off, the full combat team arrives,” Major Volodymyr said. They can assemble in under five minutes, he said.

Still, the protection provided by the Patriots is limited, like a blanket that covers only a fraction of a bed. “We were able to defend Kyiv, but at the same time Odesa was being destroyed,” Major Volodymyr said.

Ukrainian commanders are now trying to plan for a future without knowing what weapons they may have at their disposal.

“We managed to create a shield over the state thanks to our foreign partners,” Major Volodymyr said. “But if our foreign partners turn their backs on us, we will return to the beginning of the war, when people simply did not come out of their shelters and the Russians tried to turn our cities into complete ruins.”

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 21:40 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Blijft een SRBM vergelijkbaar met de Iskander. Is voor de Patriot niks nieuws.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 21:44 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Gelukkig gaan we ze zelf produceren.

SPOILER

Om spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 21:44 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Gelukkig gaan we ze zelf produceren.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 21:48 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

Las dat die A.I. wel eerst wat moet leren.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 21:49 schreef LXIV het volgende:

Voor jou zullen het toch interessante tijden zijn met al deze ontwikkelingen op het gebied van luchtbeveiliging.