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In the air-defense domain, Vienna is eying the U.S.-made Patriot and Israeli Arrow-3 systems for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2023\/11\/16\/austria-to-buy-long-range-air-defenses-under-sky-shield-push\/\">long-range segment<\/a>, and the German IRIS-T system for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2023\/09\/13\/austria-eyes-german-iris-t-buy-for-nascent-european-sky-shield\/\">medium- and short-range segments<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combined with the close-range Skynet guns, which target threats that made it through the outer layers of an air-defense shield, the envisioned Austrian setup is typical for the types of capabilities on which European nations are spending their defense money these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spooked by Russian attacks on population centers in Ukraine with drones and missiles, governments here have banded together under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2023\/07\/05\/neutral-switzerland-and-austria-will-join-european-air-defense-project\/\">European Sky Shield Initiative<\/a>, led by Germany. 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