I don't know about shaming so much as taking advantage.
The UK seems to have been using Ukraine to do an end run around its own lethargic establishment
Allied donations to Ukraine have gone from missiles to designs, as Ukrainian manufacturing outpaces its donors.
www.defenseone.com
"The United Kingdom spent six years developing and deploying Storm Shadow. Manufacturing relied on specialized European supply chains. French and Italian partners were involved, which made a tech transfer bureaucratically difficult. And the missiles were expensive gifts, averaging $2 million apiece.
"These and other factors compelled the U.K. and Ukraine to enter into a joint agreement to develop a new long-range strike drone with streamlined and simplified requirements—a 2024 effort called Breakstop that British officials say will deliver missiles for frontline use later this year. That timeline—less than 24 months from concept to full deployment—is far faster than Storm Shadow and much less expensive. Meanwhile, Ukraine also announced its own long-range strike missile, the Flamingo, or FP-5, which is also capable of striking Russia but costs much less than the Storm Shadow.
"Fischer said that the contrast in innovation speeds helps explain how such intellectual-sharing partnerships help the United Kingdom as much as they do Ukraine. “One critical but often overlooked lesson from the Ukraine war is the extremely rapid adaptation cycle Ukraine is able to implement. In some cases, battlefield lessons are implemented in less than 10 days to new systems. In my seven combat deployments, NOTHING has ever come close to that.”"
Britain started early donating target drones to Ukraine which Ukraine converted into weapons.
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And it is not just in the air domain
The United Kingdom is developing Wasp and Snapper maritime drones to support Ukrainian capabilities in the Black Sea
militarnyi.com
theaviationist.com
www.businessinsider.com
