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The United Kingdom government has given the Ukrainian forces a shipping container that fires surface-to-air missiles. Gravehawk is a UK-designed air defense system the Ministry of Defence (MOD) says has “rapidly developed to meet Ukrainian needs on the battlefield.” The innovative system—jointly funded by the UK and Denmark—is the size of a shipping container and is able to retrofit air-to-air missiles for ground-based air defense. This means it can use Ukrainian missiles already in their Armed Forces’ possession. The MOD says pictures taken Tuesday show two ‘Soviet’ A11 Missiles inside the container of the Gravehawk Air Defense System. Describing the…