The IRIS-T air defense system is Germany's answer to the Soviet-era S-300

The first of four advanced air-defense missile systems being supplied by Germany has been shipped to Ukraine. The IRIS-T can ward off aerial assaults on towns and armies.

Ukraine now owns one of the world's most advanced air defense systems to protect it against Russian cruise missiles, after Germany's somewhat delayed delivery of an IRIS-T Surface-Launched-Missile (SLM) system. This system is the first of four similar ones t....