Anatoliy Khrapchynskyi, deputy general director of a company producing electronic‑warfare systems and an aviation expert, shared his opinions on Espreso TV.“Let’s actually start not so much with what Ukraine can launch, but with what intelligence data it'll need to effectively employ Tomahawk missiles. Because the Tomahawk is actually an interesting missile and it can have 15 preloaded targets. And via a data link during the missile’s flight, you can engage the required point. In other words, you can change the section where the missile will go. And here we talk about the need for satellite communications, which the Americans have. Additionally, one must say that, for example, for the missile to be effective when it uses very low altitudes, we need to scan the surface landscape along the missile’s flight route; those data also exist with the United States. Finally, we can actually talk about where Ukraine would launch them from. Germany ordered ground-type launchers, which will be delivered to Germany at the end of 2026; the availability of such systems, again, is questionable,” he said.Anatoliy Khrapchynskyi noted that he would like to hear from the United States not that Ukraine will receive Tomahawks only if Russia reduces hostilities or agree to a settlement, but that Tomahawks are in Ukraine, and it can use them if Russia does not stop fighting.“As for technical capability and capacity, I am more than confident that Ukrainian military will very quickly master the necessary mechanisms to use these missiles. But again I’ll say that it’s undoubtedly great that the United States promises such missiles, yet let’s talk about Ukraine's own weapons and capabilities, because no one else will win this war for Ukraine. We started this war with two or three weeks of Arestovych. Now Arestovych is handing over Ukrainian lands. Now we are at the stage of two or three weeks of Trump. When Trump starts handing over Ukrainian lands, it’s a matter of time. So, in principle, I would say that Ukraine needs to work more on its own weapons and the capabilities of its own weapons to be more effective,” he said.The aviation expert also said that the air-defense systems that could have countered Tomahawks were redeployed by Russia to temporarily occupied Crimea, where they were neutralized by the Defense Forces of Ukraine.“Russia sent everything that could counter Tomahawk to Crimea, where it was neutralized by Ukraine's defense forces. So, in principle, Russia’s air-defense system is Swiss cheese, which allows Ukraine to operate actively and use those holes to strike important targets. Russia has long been deploying counter-drone systems. And of course they haven’t tested their anti-missile defense capabilities in a long time. And again I’ll say that the Tomahawk is a missile that flies at very low altitudes. So the detection time and interception time depend on various air-defense systems that must be saturated in the region. And recently what we see is that Moscow and the Leningrad region are being actively filled with various systems to make any use of Ukrainian weapons impossible. But again, the Tomahawk is quite an interesting missile that can change its target point, so to speak. They cannot track the exact destination point, and this helps to bypass the air-defense system,” Anatoliy Khrapchynskyi added.