US troops stationed at an airbase in Poland are helping Ukrainians maintain their US-provided weapons remotely via encrypted digital chats, Defense One reported on Sunday.
The US troops are helping the Ukrainians fix and maintain HIMARS rocket systems, Javelin anti-tank launchers, howitzers, and other equipment. The Americans and Ukrainians have 14 encrypted chats, one for each type of weapon. The Ukrainians are able to send video clips thanks to Starlink satellite terminals, which give them internet access.
After diagnosing the issue, the US maintenance specialists can send the Ukrainian troops any parts they may need. One unnamed US lieutenant colonel described the process in comments to Defense One.
“Ukrainians are going to identify a need, the experts are going to diagnose …what’s needed and either walk them through it or put parts on order. And then we use the American supply system to get that part here to transfer right down,” the lieutenant colonel said.
The report did not disclose the name of the airbase in Poland but described it as “an airbase that could be among the first targets if Russia expands the war beyond Ukraine.”
Since the start of the war, Poland has been a major hub for US and NATO weapons that have been shipped into Ukraine. Russia has shown no sign that it plans to target NATO territory, but increasing US support for the war does risk provoking a response.
Russia recently warned that if the US provides Ukraine with longer-range missiles that Kyiv seeks, it would make Washington a party to the conflict, and Moscow would be forced to respond. But so far, the Biden administration has been hesitant to give Ukraine the weapons, which have a range of about 190 miles.
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Who said Ukraine didn’t succeed – at something – with their Kharkov offensive? Not the Kremlin.
“Defense” really is an urgent need for poor little undefended USA at the other end of the globe. Armenia is such a threat to poor USA too, as Pelosi insisted.
Is Armenia not actually going to be helped by the US – Pelosi having blamed Azerbaijan!?
Pelosi isn’t all that interested in helping Armenia, she’s interested in being seen as friendly to Armenia by Armenian-Americans in the Bay Area. Not that there are all that many.
If the US government is interested in what’s going on there, it’s almost certainly because it would like to stir up trouble on Russia’s southern border.
Even if this is the case that is still a far cry from the US working against Armenia.
Umm . . . did I suggest that the US is working against Armenia?
No but my comment was a reply to someone who did – so that was kind of the theme of the thread – if you jump in on a line of arguments you ought to observe what is being debated to contribute meaningfully to the discussion.
No, Michael, your comment was a reply to me. It’s easy to tell. I’ll help: Follow the little curved arrow after your username.
My comment to which you replied was to:
Michael64 anaisanesse • 20 hours ago
Is Armenia not actually going to be helped by the US – Pelosi having blamed Azerbaijan!?
anaisanesse’s comment was:
So the subject of the thread was – as I stated on whether Armenia was a threat to the US and hence whether the US was/is working against Armenia.
So my comment, the one you started replying to, was indeed ‘a reply to someone who did ‘suggest that the US is working against Armenia’
Pelosi is an idiot… 😉
For an idiot, she sure manages to get her way.
Hi Mary, well said but remember, a good number of our elected officials aren’t real big on brain power…
Oh let’s get rid of the fluff. We ARE at war with Russia.
Man, I bloody hope not…
Can I ask you a personal question, if you don’t mind?… If we got to war with Russia, due you think it will go nuclear?…
Never mind, that was a stupid question…
Of course it would.
At what point does the Joey Biden show cross the red line and start world war 3?
Under Joey Biden, America has become a runway train with ever increasing speed perpetually heading for dead mans curve!
It is not the time to live in Washington or Ramstein.
So lets review, no US troops in Ukraine. Borders, we take them seriously, sometimes.
Speaking of borders. That piece of legislation Clinton signed in the 90s (among others he signed), specifically, NAFTA, put over 1 million Mexican farmers out of work. Guess what? They wound up at our border to find work up North.
And thanks in large measure to NAFTA, US corn (grown by subsidized farmers in the Midwest) has helped drive the price of tortillas, a staple food in Mexico, to levels that are unaffordable for many Mexicans.
I live in New Mexico and we eat A-LOT of tortillas!
So do I, but we aren’t poor Mexicans.
Very true.
Our state has many Mexicans and most of them illegal… But here, no one cares because the state is predominately Hispanic. My husband is from Spain (Nicaragua and Cuba too). I should add that he is Basque, lol, he would not forgive me if I didn’t mention that.
Ha. I have Basque friends. I learned long ago not to refer to them as Spanish.
Anglos should be grateful that Latinos let them live in New Mexico. As for “illegal,” they didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them, when we provoked a war to steal half the territory of Mexico.