The Biden administration announced on Wednesday a new $1.3 billion weapons package for Ukraine that includes air defense systems, kamikaze drones, missiles, and other equipment.
The package is being provided to Ukraine through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the US to purchase arms for Ukraine. The Pentagon said the announcement represents the beginning of the contract period.
According to the Pentagon, the full package includes:
- Four National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) and munitions
- 152mm artillery rounds
- Mine clearing equipment
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles
- Phoenix Ghost and Switchblade Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
- Precision aerial munitions
- Counter-UAS and electronic warfare detection equipment
- 150 fuel trucks
- 115 tactical vehicles to tow and haul equipment
- 50 tactical vehicles to recover equipment
- Port and harbor security equipment
- Tactical secure communications systems
- Support for training, maintenance, and sustainment activities
Weapons provided under the USAI could take months or years to be delivered. The primary way the US has been arming Ukraine is through the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows President Biden to send equipment directly from US military stockpiles.
According to State Department numbers, the new package brings the total USAI committed to Ukraine in the 2023 fiscal year to $12.1 billion. In the 2022 fiscal year, the US announced $6.3 billion in USAI for Ukraine.
Funds for Ukraine are still being pulled from the $113 billion that Congress has authorized to spend on the war so far. The White House is expected to ask Congress to approve more within the next few months.
latest from Col Macgregor
https://youtu.be/rQ02D3r5nTw
It says “video unavailable.” He is the voice of reason. By the way, I recently started following another YouTube channel by someone who calls himself “the voice of reason.” https://youtu.be/0s5G14KpB60
click where it says “watch on youtube” – you can watch it but the guy just doesn’t want his video embedded everywhere on the internet
Thanks, very helpful.
Welcome, my brother. Here’s another from the “Military Summary.” It’s probably the most reliable and detailed twice a day updates. Warning, his accent is addictive! LOL
https://youtu.be/EjlDjt6kcpk
This guy is never right but you keep posting his BS.
Doesn’t mean YOU’re ever “right” or we have to ever or “never” read your “BS” posts. If you’re a believer that the Ukraine “war is peace” and good for Ukraine and/or the world, I encourage you to go to the frontlines and show us how it’s done. I heard the stench of dead bodies this summer is gratifying for bloodthirsty anti-peace advocates. …Sorry, what? …You’re not!? Okay, then I didn’t mean a word I said. It’s like they say, “Say what you mean, but don’t say it mean.” (Sarcasm)
Yeah. OK. You go fight for Russia and we’ll talk, keyboard commando. You’re a tankie, which means you’re not antiwar at all. You’re only anti-US-war. You’re pro-Russian war. I have ALWAYS supported a sovereign country’s fight against an invader. I’ve spoken out against US involvement in the Middle East and protested in DC and NY prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. What are your antiwar bonifides?
“You’re only anti-US-war.”
Which means he’s been against damn near every war since WW2. Hard to think of one where Uncle Sam was uninvolved.
There are several.
Name them.
Because you are information ignorant, I did the work for you — as if you were my child:
http://war-memorial.net/wars_all.asp
Is that some kind of a joke? I asked you to name the wars the US wasn’t involved in after you said there were “several”. So, you give me a list of wars since 1990? Good one.
And there you are as usual. Coming out screaming your support for your fellow anti US / pro russia war team.
It never fails. Never.
I mean, we know you support the invasion and annexation of Ukraine so can’t expect anything different from you.
Never supported the invasion. Said it was inevitable. I support the annexation of Crimea and so did the people of Crimea.
LOL. Great minds think alike. The only difference is our wars are “justified.” You know, like “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” “Operation Just Cause,” etc. (Sarcasm)
Thanks
Protect Democracy in America. Build the wall and stop the drugs and uncounted, unidentified migration flowing, unchecked, into this country.
Can we go a week without another billion on Ukraine? Never ending blackhole.
Why “$1.3 billion?” Why announce it? Who’s tracking? Who’s counting? …I’m not. You think I’m walking around with a calculator? All that money doesn’t matter. When are the Ukrainians going to realize this money is for getting them killed–not keeping them safe? Take it a bit further and you realize, this money is for getting us killed–not keeping us safe. …What’s that? Yeah… It’s for our “freedom and democracy.” (Sarcasm) George Orwell — ‘There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.’
Use rate is out of proportion to our production abilities currently.
These contracts are how the West increases production to get things in balance.
Slow as heck, but that’s Western politics and how we run wars nowadays whereas Putin is meeting his needs because his economy is different than a western one.
Poor Ukraine and their slaughter is the result.
Death rates are ugly for those guys.
Contracts to be bid on?
Or are they just handing them out to the usual suspects?
Has anyone looked into Ukraine’s daily use rate versus our yearly production numbers?
Those numbers do not sound very good hense these almost weekly announcements about increasing production.
I wonder if Putin goes through all this hassle to ramp up production?
Or is he meeting his needs as the reporting shares he is at his use rate?
It’s kind of important to be able to do it today and not be so low in “stuff” as all the recent reporting shares (use rate is wildly out of proportion to current production/stores) but when politicians in the west are in charge of wars and getting the needed arms we have this.
We will get production going soon, I’m sure.
All you hae to do is listen to the latest Samantha Powell proclamations in Ukraine. She went bearing USDA gifts, but also to say things those in Ukraine who believe in US superpowers — want to hear.
And it is a doozy. She said Russia is attacking Odessa because of powerless rage, as it is losing in the battlefield! And Russia like all bullies attacks civilians!
She could not have better described Zelenski and bis henchmen. Attacking Russia’s regions, fmgoing after high optics propaganda value targets like Crimean bridge, assasinations of prominent bliggers, journalists.
Whike all along just destroying its military in less than successful counteroffensive. Now getting bloody nose as marine drone facikities and other mikitary assets were stashed in port, secure under grain deal arrangement,
Samantha woukd have bern better off not acting as an overbearing female, and let Ukrainian leadership do their own whining.
Hopefully there are stillbsome men left in Zelenski’s cabinet — as he does not tolerate those. But real soldiers know what tgey have done and when they get their noses bloidied, they do not whine.
“listen to the latest Samantha Powell proclamations?” What did I ever do to you to “justify” that, Bianca!? That’s “unprovoked and unjustified aggression!” (Sarcasm)