Posted on 02/05/2023 10:54:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s defence minister expressed confidence Sunday that Western allies would agree to the country’s latest weapons request – warplanes to fight off Russian forces that invaded nearly a year ago.
Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov told a news conference in Kyiv that Ukraine has already received everything from its “wish list to Santa,” except planes.
“There will be planes, too,” Reznikov predicted. “The question is just what kind exactly…. Consider that this mission is already completed.”
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Send the Ukraine some balloons! they are unstoppable
Great. Now what about replacing these war materials? .....Or are we just giving away our future?
“what about replacing these war materials? .....Or are we just giving away our future?”
What war materials? So far the only things we have sent Ukraine are 40 year old Soviet crap.
If from day one we had sent a few hundred each of jets, helicopters, and tanks the war would be over by now.
The Clintons got $100 million in Russian money from the Uranium One deal. My guess is those funds guaranteed the slow walking of all aid to Ukraine.
Meh... and there will be S400s fired against poorly trained aircrews.
Which means WWIII will escalate by the day now.
“If from day one we had sent a few hundred each of jets, helicopters, and tanks the war would be over by now.”
Yeah... it might be over. Maybe not in the way you think.
Besides, Ukraine had an Air Force in the beginning. It’s kinda gone.
so then why are the Russian shills in such a panic?
You have vast stocks of war materials, made long ago, all slowly aging out.
If those are your “future” you are already toast.
Btw, this war is the main event, what all that army equipment was made for in the first place.
Not for fighting guerilla wars in the third world or a naval war in the Pacific.
And the planes we give them will just get their airbases hammered with missiles.
In Jet speak, the 4th Reich is way behind the curve.
oh, stop exaggerating
only 2 countries are fighting here ... that’s hardly a “World War”
Of course there will be planes. Those fancy new tanks are going to need air cover.
How many Ukrainian pilots know how to fly NATO planes? What’s left of the Ukrainian army is on the verge of collapse and so desperate for more cannon fodder they are trying to bring back refugees of draft age that fled to other countries lol.
https://visitukraine.today/blog/1390/military-accounting-abroad-new-duties-and-obligations
This war is about over unless we can sucker the foolish Poles into it next.
I am not seeing so called shills in a panic. But I see neocons and the DC war party saounding like Hitler in his last days, waiting for some V-weapon that will turn the tide of the war.
Maybe the King Tigers...maybe the jet fighters... no wait, maybe the V2. And soon Detachment Steiner will come save them.
Countries don’t have to send ground troops to make war these days. They use Ukrainian cannon fodder and “advisors/trainers”.
Just enough to keep it going, never enough to make a decisive difference. It’s a dangerous policy but there it is.
“So far the only things we have sent Ukraine are 40 year old Soviet crap.“
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You just can’t help yourself, Biden Jr, can you?
According to a fact sheet released by the State Department, the US had by early December provided Ukraine with the following weapons systems and ammunition:
Over 1,600 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
Over 8,500 Javelin anti-armor systems;
Over 46,000 other anti-armor systems and munitions;
Over 700 Switchblade Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
142 155mm Howitzers and up to 1,004,000 155mm artillery rounds;
4,200 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;
9,000 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;
36 105mm Howitzers and 180,000 105mm artillery rounds;
276 Tactical Vehicles to tow weapons;
22 Tactical Vehicles to recover equipment;
38 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and ammunition;
20 120mm mortar systems and 135,000 120mm mortar rounds;
1,500 Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
Four Command Post vehicles;
Eight National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) and munitions;
Missiles for HAWK air defense systems;
Four Avenger air defense systems;
High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
20 Mi-17 helicopters;
45 T-72B tanks;
Over 1,000 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);
Over 100 light tactical vehicles;
44 trucks and 88 trailers to transport heavy equipment;
200 M113 Armored Personnel Carriers;
250 M1117 Armored Security Vehicles
440 MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles;
Mine clearing equipment and systems;
Over 11,000 grenade launchers and small arms;
Over 104,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition;
Over 75,000 sets of body armor and helmets;
Approximately 1,800 Phoenix Ghost Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
Laser-guided rocket systems;
Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems;
15 Scan Eagle Unmanned Aerial Systems;
Two radars for Unmanned Aerial Systems;
Unmanned Coastal Defense Vessels;
Over 50 counter-artillery radars;
Four counter-mortar radars;
20 multi-mission radars;
Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems and equipment;
Counter air defense capability;
10 air surveillance radars;
Two harpoon coastal defense systems;
58 coastal and riverine patrol boats;
M18A1 Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
C-4 explosives, demolition munitions, and demolition equipment for obstacle clearing;
Obstacle emplacement equipment;
Tactical secure communications systems;
Four satellite communications antennas;
Thousands of night vision devices, surveillance systems, thermal imagery systems,
optics, and laser rangefinders;
Commercial satellite imagery services;
Explosive ordnance disposal equipment and protective gear;
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear protective equipment;
100 armored medical treatment vehicles;
Over 350 generators;
Medical supplies to include first aid kits, bandages, monitors, and other equipment;
Electronic jamming equipment;
Field equipment, cold weather gear, and spare parts;
Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.
He’s just another lying Ukie shill.
And, of course, there are SAM systems coming too, to help stop the cruise missiles. And the planes will help deal with the cruise missiles also. The F16’s with AMRAAMs and look-down-shoot-down are likely to be very useful for that. And to relieve the ammo problem for the old Ukrainian S300s.
Btw, if it was so easy to shut down an air force with cruise missiles the Russians would have done it to the Ukes by now. But they haven’t, as it just wastes ammo.
They got the blackmailer files on Biden that says it will come true
“Btw, this war is the main event, what all that army equipment was made for in the first place.”
The long held dream of the Generals and neocons. The collapse of the USSR made them feel cheated out of their main event they always secretly wanted. It’s a sickness.
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