UK Shares Stone Cloak IP With Ukraine as Burnham Reaffirms £25 Billion Backing
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Updated · BBC.com · Jul 27
UK Shares Stone Cloak IP With Ukraine as Burnham Reaffirms £25 Billion Backing
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jul 27
Summary
Stone Cloak's intellectual property will be handed to Ukraine so it can manufacture the electronic-warfare system at scale, Burnham announced during Zelensky's first visit to No. 10 since the new prime minister took office.
Thousands of the tablet-sized jammers have already been supplied to Ukrainian forces; they mask drones from detection, and Downing Street said the technology will also feed into Britain's next-generation long-range weapons, including Project Brakestop cruise missiles.
Portsmouth also served as a show of military cooperation, with Burnham and Zelensky meeting more than 200 Ukrainian personnel training in the UK under Exercise Sea Breeze on Black Sea warfighting and counter-mine operations.
Burnham paired the weapons announcement with a pledge to honor every UK commitment to Kyiv, back a full and unconditional ceasefire, and keep Ukraine at the table in any renewed negotiations.
Britain has committed £25 billion to Ukraine since Russia's invasion four years ago, and Zelensky said he hoped leadership changes in London would not weaken ties he called stronger than ever.